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Submission + - FTC Bans Hidden Fees For Live Events and Short-Term Rentals (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.” The rule, set to take effect on May 12, prohibits hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals. It also bans practices such as “bait-and-switch pricing” and any actions that conceal or misrepresent total prices and fees.

In a newly published FAQ, the FTC offers a guide for these types of businesses, providing detailed information about pricing transparency. The rule will impact businesses, including live-event ticket sellers and short-term lodging providers, like hotels, motels, Airbnb, or VRBO. Third-party platforms, resellers, and travel agents are also covered by the new regulation. (Airbnb already updated its service in advance of this new regulation to show users the total cost of their stay upfront.) [...] Also included in the FTC’s new FAQ are the types of fees that can be excluded, such as taxes or government fees, shipping charges, and charges for optional goods or services people may select to buy as part of the same transaction. (Note that handling charges aren’t on this list.) However, the FTC notes that businesses must disclose that it has excluded charges from the total price before asking for payment. For example, if a business excludes shipping charges from the advertised price, it’s required to clearly state the amount and purpose of those charges.

Comment Re: Of course it is (Score 5, Informative) 113

Yes. People forget or are too clueless to know that two of the best shields for radioactivity are salt and water. Also, there are approximately 4 billion tons of uranium already dissolved in the worldâ(TM)s oceans.

One of the best ideas Iâ(TM)ve seen on what to do with nuclear waste was published in Scientific American in the early 1980â(TM)s. They found an area of seabed that was geologically stable where nothing has happened there in hundreds of thousands of years. The area has hundreds of feet of silt as well. They proposed putting it in containers under a few hundred feet of silt where it will sit there undisturbed for another few hundred thousand years.

Comment Re: Average W. Virginian smarter than entire gover (Score 1) 277

Whatâ(TM)s unethical about it ? They created a market and he filled that need. He didnâ(TM)t break any NY rules. (Though making automatic seers do violate federal law.). Of course by the nature of laws, laws are only followed by the honest which on some levels defeats the whole point of laws

Comment Re: Average W. Virginian smarter than entire gove (Score 1) 277

Whatâ(TM)s really amazing are the videos on YouTube of some dude in Pakistan or Afghanistan hammering out an AK-47 with not much more than a couple basic hand tools. Without even a machine shop. If you want to make something, there isnâ(TM)t much that anyone can do to stop you.

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 2) 103

I’ll be a lot more sympathetic if all the media and movies were available. Wanna watch old Captain Kangaroo? It’s not available except on pirate sites. Disney’s Song of the South or the Black Cauldron, the Same thing. How about the news reports from 20 years ago — not available. The reason people pirate is because they can’t get what they want for a reasonable price if at all.

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