The topic of “junk fees” has been in the headlines, spurred by legislative action across various sectors. From regulations on credit card late fees to the Federal TICKET Act targeting concert event ...
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a new Junk Fees Rule. It applies to live event tickets, hotels, and convenience or ...
The rule is one of the final pieces of President Joe Biden's wide-ranging crackdown on junk fees that drive up consumer costs without providing visible benefits. "We all know the experience of ...
cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the total prices that are advertised to consumers. The rule, which becomes effective 120 days after it’s published ...
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized its “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees” (Junk Fees Rule) designed, the FTC noted, to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and mandate clear ...
President Joe Biden and his administration have spent years tackling what they call “junk fees,” which are mandatory fees that are not transparently disclosed to consumers. The Federal Trade ...
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an initiative it began in 2022 at the urging of the Biden administration to eliminate "junk fees" at hotels, short-term rentals and for tickets to ...
That’s almost a 50% markup. Ticketmaster is a monopoly and it has been allowed to overcharge customers with these junk fees for too long.” The rule was issued as Ticketmaster continues to ...
A little more than a year after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule to ban junk fees, it announced this week a final Junk Fees Rule to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and other ...
The Junk Fees Rule prohibits “bait-and-switch pricing” that hides total prices for live-event tickets and hotels. For our purposes, this is mainly about Ticketmaster, which owns a monopoly ...
Americans can see the price of live event tickets upfront as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned “junk fees.” The FTC passed a rule on Tuesday that requires ticket seller ...