problem is sites can change this at any time, amazon used to be easier to cancel if i remember right, now it's a 3 step buried process, problem is they change it over time without needing consent.

prenups are not legally binding everything is easier to sine up for then to cancel just look at socialism and you have the right to repair your hardware what you do not have is the right to use their software after you have repaired your hardware because it is their software and thy can revoke your right to use their software at any time for any reason

Capital one gives free virtual cards, I use it for everything

if you need a marital prenup then you have no trust and should not even get married in the first place ..

@@runeseeker993 True. Buyer beware and do what you need to do when you discover this has happened to you without your consent. The $H!+ needs to stop!

I had the exact same thought from the title.

I actually just canceled my Comcast recently and it took all of 3 min and got no pushback. I was very surprised.

Can't cancel when it's a monopoly and you are not given an alternative 🤷‍♂️

Organize a mass cancellation

When I had to argue to cancel after getting military orders to go overseas I vowed to never again subscribe to any service like that

It works. You have no idea how many ppl actually say this: "Aint gonna wrestle the indian guys on a phone call today. Forget it. I'll do it tomorrow" And tomorrow never comes ...

If they do this then no one will subscribe or buy their products remember if you make as bad service people will 100% leave or even better tell others that this service should not be trusted

we already know it sucks, their business model is having a monopoly

Welcome to capitalism!

@@visitante-pc5zc They know humans are lazy by nature and these predators will always use that to their advantage - welcome to capitalism ;)

Look at this idiot. Giving away millions of dollars worth of code for free.

HA! NOICE!!!

wow, that's at least 100mil in there

Then just like 50 more lines of Java Script that changes everything that says you are signed up.

An hour of work lmfao

May I ask which country do you live in?

@@phleepy_bird6418 From the looks of his channel: France, and yes google showed this: A new regulation was recently introduced concerning the termination of contracts in France. Specifically, the “termination in 3-clicks” law requires that we should always be able to end a contract 1) online and 2) in 3-clicks or less.7 sept 2023

Cancelling a service having to be as easy as signing up for it is a legal requirement in at least the entirety of the EU.

The Netherlands requires sellers of subscriptions to provide a way to unsubscribe that is just as easy as subscribing. You subscribe via the phone? Then you can unsubscribe via the phone.

Is that why it's so easy to unsubscribe from bogus newsletters in my email. If so thank God there's at least one win I can make use of.

Ironic that in the the real cancel culture its impossible to cancel

Always has been.

@@Hex-Mas underrated comment, fellow cosmonaut!

joke's on yall i don't subscribe to shit i don't want in the first place

@@manitoba-op4jx I actually just cancelled all of my subscriptions the other day, except for Amazon Prime. And then they rolled out the ads even for Prime members. Plus the ever-worsening Chinese junk issue. That's next on the chopping block.

But I'm pretty sure you're always free to call up your bank and tell them to block any and all transfers to whatever service it is that you can't cancel.

As far as the law is concerned, only poor people can commit theft.

Closer to extortion, but yes

@@meyes1098 Yep. It initiates a chargeback that negatively affects the seller.

Call up the government and try to cancel your subscription to them. Oh wait you don't want this "cancel button" rule to apply to them at all, do you?

I've had to do this too

Great plan. I have a relative who has a terminal illness and had various service charges but isn't using them - they are too ill. I can't find any way to cancel some of them - so I know if I cancel the bank transfer the provider will get arsey BUT when the account gets frozen it will have same effect. It seems the only way to get companies to send an email or put a letter thru the box.

For a brief time you could get one-use credit card numbers to use for purchases, etc. I expect that was killed right quick by companies wanting to continue their perpetual non-cancelable subscriptions

Tell your financial institution you want a new card. New card, new number, no more auto pay.

Use a pay card. That way when you wanna cancel... Just stop loading the card.

we have the same thing with crime here, the cops are so useless that we dont report crime anymore so the government goes look at the great job we are doing, crime rates are at an all time low, but in reality its at an all time high and nobody wants to report it because not only does it take a long ass time and get you nowhere, but you also have to pay to park anywhere near the police station too.

Even that isn't true. They'd sit down and try to figure out how to make clicking on that button as hard as possible. Maybe you have to click it 250 times in a row. Or every time you mouse over it, it moves away. "Hey, the button is there! That's what you wanted, right?" Or maybe they could make you watch a 35 minute ad after clicking and if you close the ad before it's over, they see it as you changing your mind and wanting to abort your cancelation.

@@needycatproductions6830 that's why it only restricts them instead of preventing them.

@@needycatproductions6830 Or an unsolvable captcha. Google's _real_ good at those.

​@@mjaomjao2the thing is: restrictions are what create innovations in the first place

@@needycatproductions6830I remember some online service I canceled asking me like 3 times and the last time it had a huge colored ”continue membership” button right in the middle and the ”cancel membership” link in a small font plain text at the bottom. I was already annoyed and trying to click through it as fast as I can so I accidentaly continued my membership.

I thought the exact same thing LOL I thought it was gonna be the punch line at the end or something

can't believe louis failed to note this in the video, heh

Oh no, they might have to actually provide value to the customers instead of just trapping them into being subscribed, the horror!

That's 100% it. Their staff is trained to steer you in any other direction if you manage to reach someone. I mean, they could code a button to add $1 onto your bill in 15 seconds.

Toyota engineer goes to his boss. Boss glancss at drawing, says 'Too easy, do ovah.!

In those situations, when I'm on chat or phone with some poor unfortunate support line person, I'll be sure to phrase my complaints to "your company", "the company" or . I don't say "you" when I mean the company I'm dealing with. That takes it out of any implication that it is in any way personal. If necessary I'll even say something along the lines of "this isn't about you, it's about your employer".

Excellent point but it also makes me wonder if something as good for customers like an easy cancel button will also cost potential jobs. Companies like Comcast will recoup the losses somehow. They might decide they don't need as many answering calls anymore or something

@@SenileOtaku Pure respect to you for showing respect to support

@@kennymorelandiii9406 If one company stops milking their customers to fill the pockets of investors, that opens the door for other companies with more respect for their customers and employees, which would create more and better jobs. If customers aren't giving their money to Comcast, they now have more money to give to other things. The idea that supporting a bad company is actually what's best for the employees: that's a lie those at the top have sold people on.

Dear Lord, I hope that works.

Who? Link? I want to watch that one

@@Bronek0990same, give link

Source bro. You know the rules.

​@@WiseWikHeh, that's 100% what I'm feeling!

Yeah, call center staffers who aren't paid very much tend to give up quickly in the face of obstinance, or someone who pisses them off in a way they didn't expect. I had a telemarketer selling solar panels get angry at me once because he simply couldn't comprehend that I lived in a condominium, and therefore I own my home but can't have solar installed. To him, only apartments and houses exist. This was after I'd been spammed with calls for solar panels for weeks.

​@@CrizzyEyesWould you be interested in purchasing some solar panels for your condom minimum? 😂

​​​​@@CrizzyEyes​​ If you call to cancel a service subscription and you piss off the call centre worker even a tiny bit, (s)he will just hang up the phone on you, and if you repeatedly call back, the company that runs the call centre will just go to court, cry harassment, and get a no-contact order slapped on you, leaving you trapped in a subscription that you cannot cancel.

​@@denelson83 This is why services that give you virtual credit cards are so valuable because when a company hard prevents you from cancelling you just delete the credit card and they can't bill you anymore.

@@fenix849 But if they knew your home address, which was tied to the billing record for your "virtual" credit card, then you would end up receiving collection notices, as according to the service provider, you are still subscribed. Ignore the collection notices, and they will get more and more aggressive until you end up getting taken to court and ordered to pay.

it would happen if the CIA hadnt infiltrated literally every internet forum and installed moderators to ban anyone who attempts it.

Im from Austria, which was in the EU the last time i checked, and its really not that easy to cancel a membership, or anyone with minimal information about me would be able to cancel all my subs, but i can send a digital signed e-mail to them which takes me 2 minutes and they have to accept it like its a certified mail.

@@Vittrich As a German I can tell you that EU law is sometimes not applied in the countries because of... eh...

@@Groink1 i still dont believe you can cancel memberships with name and number alone, the problems and work this would generatete would be unbearable.

@@Vittrich Hwere I am you need to sign into the account you want to cancel a subscription for. Such as: Amazon, Netflix, Gym, Phone

nyeh see, the boss don't want you to cancel. there could be consequences, see?

We made em an offer he couldn't refuse

Welcome to capitalism - the predatory system that puts profits over people ...

They are referring to the TOS clause that says: "If the customers ever unsubscribes, we are going to break their knees."

Free horses head if you recommend a friend (set up cost not included)

This is why molotov cocktails exist. Companies wouldn’t be so shitty if they knew their jobs were flammable.

Oh wow! That's awful!

The sad thing is that cs worker has to make you not cancel. I had a call like this and I cried for 30 minutes after because I didn't want to force this person who is already distraught to keeping hack squat but I was forced to or I could lose my job. These companies don't even care about their own employees as well.

Reminds me of some of the trouble I had after my mother died. She was being charged for some medical equipment that she returned a year earlier. I kept getting the bills, and kept calling the company and showing them proof that they picked it up a long time ago. After my mom died, they still kept charging. I still kept fighting them. I finally called Medicare to report fraud. The lady I talked to said if I'm not my mom (and I'm not, my mom's dead and I explained that again), then she can't talk to me. She can only talk to my mom due to privacy rules. I told her I'm trying to report fraud. She insisted my mom is the only one that could report fraud. I explained again, that she was dead. I explained she doesn't need to "talk", just "listen". She refused to open my moms account to allow her to listen to anything. This conversation was not going to happen and that was final. This phone call felt like a dream. Like it couldn't be happening. How was I supposed to report medicare fraud if they won't listen? Sat stunned for a few minutes, then decided to drive to the rental place. Several customers were in there at the time. I'd normally wait my turn, but I was pissed, and called out from 30 feet away "Who Do I Talk To Who Can Stop The Fraud You Guys Are Committing?". Some lady took me back right away and I sat with her as she called Medicare and refunded the government their money. It is indeed difficult to stop these "mistakes". Old people often can't do it on their own, especially after they're dead.

I mean no disrespect but the scenario reminded me of the "Dead Parrot" sketch.

There isn't a single product or service worth having that requires sales people to sell it.

And take advantage of the elderly. I had to get involved and get quite rude (threatening a lawsuit) to get her Hughes service disconnected, and it took some swearing to get DirectTV to cancel her service (she lived in the boonies). After all of that, Hughes charged her for equipment that was already returned, and, because it was missing that little crappy ethernet cable that originally came in the box. Reported this on every website imaginable, including the FTC, with a description of all that was going on, then, magically a few weeks later, her account was credited. Satellite companies are the worst! Probably because, as the lose market share to ground based ISPs, they get more desperate. They're crooks.

That would include me. *I hate using the phone to talk to people I don’t know and don’t expect to ever become acquainted with in the slightest!* EDIT: *Heck, I hate using the phone to even talk with people I either don’t know but expect to become acquainted with or that I’m already (but only) acquainted with!*

Or just people that value their time more than money. despite the old saying, time is not money.

I don't think it's to go after zoomers who can't handle ordering food, they don't have cable. It's to go after people who work full time and can't sit on hold all fucking day.

With cable costs in the US, it's more like 1 million customers or less. But I think they have way more than that that would cancel, so maybe they should increase the cost to add the cancel button. (It's all still a lie.)

I think chatgpt and a few people that have patience could figure out how to do this in less than 24 hours for a few thousand dollars.

@@focused313 I (for the record I haven’t watched the video at all, so I could be completely wrong) don’t think they’re suggesting that it literally costs $100M to implement a cancel button, I think they’re just trying to say that’s how much they’ll lose from the cancellations that’ll follow

who are they hiring? its probably 100M from either loses of sales OR wrongful termination of employees that they end up paying unemployment offices

@@TheMamaluigi300 They're trying to show undue burden to make the change as a defense to not have to make the change. The number itself is totally made up, but it is possible they used a rough count of business loss to come up with it even though that is not a defense to not make the change.

I'll do it for $70M. Thats a $30M discount off industry standard!

$74M. $70M to the guy above me, $2M for me, and $2M to you.

69 Million Dollars!

You should call them to solicit your services, they might take up your offer with such a discount.

I can code it in less than 5 business days in Python. For 75m

Together with learning how their site code works it would take 1 day to add button to frontend and 1 day to add API endpoint to backend. One day for testing and releasing from test to live. At price around $50/hour it would be quite a bit less than 100 mil.

Yea they did alot of creative accounting with that.

@@test-rj2vl Eh but knowing these companies they wouldnt test it, both out of laziness/greediness and maliciousness to hope that it doesnt work

And while you're at it, show me all your company's revenue and expenses too. I'm sure you've got nothing to hide...

@@heavyhauler426 Shoo shoo, corporate personhood shill.

You can put your service on hold. Not too many people ask for it. Saves face for all concerned. No one wants to cancel or to be canceled.

stuff like that is what makes yar har morally work.

It is cheaper to purchase a new computer to run pirated Adobe software, than paying for Adobe subscriptions on an existing computer. Just make sure the computer with exclusive pirated software has none of your banking details or financial information.

@@ninjanerdstudent6937 I intiallly thought you were wrong but after doing the math. paying at max 5000 dollars for a new pc does pay for itself if used regularly enough.

@@alexanderbaker4900 Was never pay to own, ask anyone who bought an older copy of autodesk if the serial number still works

Their right to our wallet should never be infringed

It's fucked up. It's depressing. This shit should've been curbed a while ago. We're too politically constipated to do jack shit.

these should be added into our constitution or something. idk. or some new bill

These issues can all be resolved in the upcoming conflict.

💯!!!

Yes, we have laws for both problems in Germany. If you can sign up online, they have to provide a cancelation option online. And there is a law that consumer contracts only renew on a monthly basis after the agreed upon fixed term contract is over.

I thought it was a huge issue with what is now called Sky, where you sometimes even had to get a lawyer involved because they would "lose" the mail even if you sent it certified. It's one of the reasons why I don't touch this company with a foot pole.

@@ManyYser Ok, maybe. I haven't heard of this specific case. In general, I would not rule out that some company abused it more than others. Anyway, as you are mentioning Sky, I actually also had some bad experience with them many years later. Specifically with Sky Tickets. But I don't think they were malicious in my case, as they failed to *activate* my subscription 3 times. So they were actually hurting themselves. I think their processes are just pure garbage. :D

Except its not that innovative. Mailing lists and Txt subscriptions have been doing this since the mid-90s and mid-2000s, respectively.

@@freelancerthe2561 It's just sarcasm.

Thank you for the heart!

Exactly. The "no one is complaining" excuse is short-sighted, too. Advocates like Louis could say that they choose to complain by posting videos instead of contacting the state attorney general because they think the video will reach more people and have a wider impact.

@@alexanderbaker4900 both of you well said

At that point is the Streisand affect on their end (but not really since more than a few people were complaining about it)

stop stop stop I can only get so erect

This is deep😊

meanwhile, lots of people canceled Netflix and they still suck. lol

But that is way too expensive for them.

@@MichaelSanAngelo of course, that assumes said companies decide to not keep their head up their ass, and actually look at the numbers and listen to the customers.

Exactly

​@@Carah-qk3nzyes huh?... OP why???

From the company's perspective, what's the big difference between "I can't afford the subscription" and "I'm going to prison and I can't afford the subscription"? Also, what's the big difference between "I'm moving away" (which they sometimes ignore) and "I'm going to prison"? What makes "prison" some kind of magic word?

@sanjaymatsuda4504 if you're already going to prison, they know it is unwise to play games with you.

Why yes, sullying your own reputation is the best way to cancel a subscription to something. Better yet, just tell them to go you-know-what themselves and stop all payments then sue their asses or whatever comes to mind to let them know of your dissatisfaction. And if you take extreme measures, perhaps you'll actually go to prison and then you wouldn't even be lying.

@@fastradioburst253 lmao hold up hold up... common sense alert. We cannot have people making sense around youtube. 🤣

The customer is always right.

It's pure gaslighting. They want to make anyone who wants to cancel seem incapable of making a reasonable decision. Like you're the crazy one because you don't understand the value of the services they offer. Disgusting Stalinist tactics.

There are discounts that are available only to people who try to cancel. Those discounts cannot be made public.

@@jrstf ATT's discount offer was still more than Cox's - which was 4x faster than ATT.

And lack pattern recognition.

*All* major institutions are evil. It doesn't take a genius to realize it. That's why it's so gutbustingly funny that the proposed solution for corporate abuses is to just give governments more power to abuse.

I have a friend that thinks everything is okay as long as he can get his weed.

@@jrstf Tbh, if good weed was made more affordable, I’d be simping for whoever’s responsible.

No, I read. I read "Atlas Shrugged" and without these major corporations keeping me from canceling my subscription society would collapse!

Im stealing this.

@@AK-dr6pz it went quick because most companies will provide you their legal department number and literally hang up. Doesn't quite work like you'd think.

🥲🥲🥲@@edew9180

​@@edew9180state your purpose followed by the being recorded part. Then if they interfere with the purpose of the call, they've already been put on notice of the intent and would cause their legal team a headache

Depending on the state but you do not have to do your own disclosure. Their recording disclosure goes both ways

It won't cost them that much to create the cancel button. It'll cost them that in lost revenue when people can actually unsubscribe when they want to.

I wish I had the 10 million and a GoPro so I could watch that happen. Honestly. 😂

Bro seriously though that's like a 5k fix if even like that's not even a hour or two of web redesign. Shit I could probably do it by watching a KZfaq video honestly. So yeah for that 10% my 350 pound ass would walk from Texas to their head office 😂

right, in the long run they'll lose 100M.

I believe they are.

They are. Is just that congress does NOTHING.

​@@GeorgeMonetresults suggest otherwise, unfortunately

But the lobbyists are the ones paying off the courts and politicians, so nothing will happen.

The problem is how courts rely on expert opinions. Experts aren't people who know and are honest, experts are people who can show some certifications, and ideally have a track record of getting paid to say things in court that favor the party that pays them.

Cable companies in utility companies tend to be the worst for this since they're essentially monopolies. There's usually only one company you have available for your area.

why would it not matter if it is true or not

The issue there is that you're dealing with a cabal - they all collaborate to set prices. So they know who's where and what they're offering.

@@hotpocketbagel Because you're telling them they're about to get nothing, and now they have to negotiate where before they could dictate.

@@leandersearle5094 i don't really understand but how does that make lying ok

@@hotpocketbagelwhat’s wrong with lying to people who want to steal your money and bribe government officials to make themselves richer? Fuck CEOs.

Fitness "influencers" like to clown on PF, but there's so little to complain about from a value POV.

It varies by location, not all locations do this. I was forced to cancel in person (I cancelled in Dec). It's a step in the right direction, but still not quite there.

Up until they started letting men into the women’s locker room. 🤡🤡💩💩

I went to a gym like that. Not surprised, good luck. Those gyms make it impossible and find any excuse to not cancel, even with a doctors note.

@@thekingoftown07 i actually got lucky i guess cuz with note they insta-cancelled it

What the name of said gym? Just to avoid such gym.

@@BatmanSpideyDa3rd this was a long time ago known as Bally Total Fitness. There are others who follow that model as well. Avoid them if you can. Home gyms are great too. Invested in a strongman gym for my basement. Great investment and saves tons over time

That's a hippa violation! They have no right to your medical records or information

That's an interesting perspective, and also you have my sincere sympathies for the trauma you must have experienced in that job.

Thats by design, isn't it? Providing a good working service costs money. And costing money hurts the profit margin. And when the profit margin shrinks, Mr Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr Bigglesworth gets upset, people fry!!! (duhhhh duuunnnn duh duuun na nuh)

Get one of those printers with the refillable wells

That's a great example, actually. There's a FedEx print shop within spitting distance of where I live, and I ended up installing their app just so I don't have to deal with real printers anymore.

Finally bought a Brother monochrome laser printer which uses affordable toner instead of very expensive inkjet cartridges. Tired of HP and Canon greed and their intentionally crippled cartridges forcing you to spend more even before the ink actually runs out.

@@JoseLopez-tk4tq same here. We have had a brother color laser printer for going on 10 years now. We get 3rd party cheap toner and it works great. We replace it maybe every two years if that! Inkjet printers are another story though

Never buy any printer, they're all garbage, no exceptions. From a software standpoint, they are a security nightmare.

The last city I lived in had a 24/7 gym where I just bought a 15€ key badge and payed for 1,3,6 or 12 months of access in advance. I didn’t even need to sign up I just showed an id and signed a paper agreeing that they’ll ban me if I break/steal stuff, let outsiders in etc. It was so suprising after my last gym being 12 month minimum with only exceptions pregnancy, severe illness or military service and even then you could only freeze it for a few months max.

To be fair, people are drama queens, like people who refuse to use a self-checkout because it's unpaid labor, or acting like a delayed flight is a crime against humanity. I remember a huge discussion around someone else canceling a service I also had, I think HBO Max, and people insisted that it was predatory because you had to click through all these menus -- having just canceled, I remembered clicking account, settings, cancel subscription, yes I'm sure. People want to give you some sob story, that it's tantamount to slavery to be asked to take a survey or that seeing a single offer on your way out is worse than waterboarding.

@@CLove511cease

​@@CLove511there are a lot of things that are insanely annoying to cancel though and especially if they aren't paying a ton per month alot of people will just not bother.

Lol sounds like a great idea, throw in it's for a violent crime after you tracked down someone who wouldn't let you cancel a service and you got caught, your getting sentenced in the next few days. Guess that would help ease the cancellation 😂

I just tell them flat out, I no longer want your service.

@@burnedrisotto "Ok I'll just send you over to someone who can help you with that" sends you over to the retention department, 30min hold time. Have a good day

"please provide photos of your body to prove you stopped coming to the gym."

At that point I'd just call the bank and end auto pay. If they want to maintain my subscription without money I'll be happy to keep a free service.

​@@MrDj232 wait I didn't know was possible to ask your bank to force cancel your subscription... Well.. hey, the more you know 😂

@@nawfalshafiu5694it’s your account. You can absolutely tell them to refuse payments to certain accounts.

​@@nawfalshafiu5694they just try to withdraw again, so you'll get a withdraw attempt the next month. If their a big enough dick they'll send you to collections because you never "canceled" the right way.

True, that. There have been a couple of services that have provided good service, it's no longer economically advantageous for me to stay with them but I don't cancel immediately out of (believe it or not) gratitude.

It’s EU wide, and it also include many other businesses like gym

@firerat1653 You wouldn't believe how messed up business systems are after a few decades. I heard (from someone who works there) that at the ex-state telecom company here for many big service incidents there are actual persons looking at the screen with the call logs and re-type the info into the screen that sends the info to the technicians. I have an online account with one of the older electronics chains here - one day years ago I put some stuff into the basket while logged in with one account, then logged out, logged in with a different account (because I was ordering for a club) and the web site managed to merge those two accounts and made both of them unusable with support being unable to fix it to this day. I could go on. Even if everything goes well - you need tons of approvals and test runs, which all conspire to make development lengthy. 1/2 year is fast for a generic cancel function.

I won't claim I know the exact infrastructure or anything, but how did it take half a year? Just bugs that had to be ironed out, or is it a convoluted system?

I feel that using local business is a good idea. Even if it costs a little more. These giant nationwide companies are out of hand.

The issue is they get to decide when a "monopoly" is formed. They dont consider monopoly of parts or monopoly on repairs. Its absolutely ludicrous that this shit still happens.

Because they throw the government a few bucks and they look the other way

They can get away with it because capitalism, freedom or something.

Literally physically not comprehending simple things must mean you have a very difficult life.

Welcome to free market capitalism!

People often tout America as the free market poster boy, but our trade reality is much more restricted and controlled than most realize. For example: we regularly restrict goods to partners and ourselves as well as define standards of production on a wide variety of sectors. The question is, what level of restriction creates the best quality of life for the participants? Unfortunately, companies have shown that the current pattern still operates in many ways at the expense of the participants.

They didn't bought your political bullshit. Nice

@@witherschatBut we don't *HAVE * free market capitalism. Existing/established companied have bought off and bribed Congresscritters for decades to make sure no competitors can get a start in the marketplace. The only reason the current crop of tech companies were able to get started was by entering a marketplace the entrenched companies were unaware of. But now that the "tech startups" have become themselves entrenched, they are using the same dirty tricks to buy off those same congresscritters.

Lol, and the fact that it wasn't even an ad

And the subscription service providers will just proceed to sue the FTC to stop it.

I'd prefer the requirement be "as hard to sign up as it is to cancel", and being forced to do it that way for five years. Suddenly, they won't be getting any new customers if they all have to spend an hour on the phone to sign up, their revenues will decline as existing customers get fed-up enough to cancel, and they'll hopefully go bankrupt before they're allowed to change their methods.

they get 10 days worth of interest on your refund. Not much unless you see just how many refunds are pending right now...easily in the millions, and probably a hundred million during holidays. Think Superman 2 with richard pryor.

That why those $1000 an hour corporate defense lawyers are paid to craft those airtight contracts. Don't even get me started on those regulations and legislation pushed by highly compensated special interest lobbyists to favor their corporate overlords agendas.

The key points that are keeping them from doing the right thing are corruption (the US just calls it differently - "lobbyism" - but the US is as corrupt as any 3rd world country) and something called "precedent". As soon as they feel they might lose a court case, they'll try to settle out of court. If they feel they have a safe win, they'll go for a judgement. That skews the odds in their favor in the long run.

Why? This is capitalism working exactly as intended.

Taking this kind of legal action is expensive as fuck. Only big corporations are able to do that, which is a gross miscarriage of justice.

It's because the common man is disjointed from one another and the machine is fluid and well put together.

Even phone service should be easy and obvious to cancel. It should also come with multiple steps, each one warning people against cancelling to soon with two buttons "OK, continue my service" and "I still want to cancel now". Clicking "I want to cancel" on 3 screens may be annoying, but it gets the message across ... and if you think your subscribers are clueless idiots, make one of the screens a must-watch 15 second video warning.

@@lizcademy4809 yeah there have to be some steps in between. Ive worked customer service and had to explain to people that their phone number they had for 20 years is gone because they just up and canceled before actually moving their service

That only cancels your automatic payments, not the contract.

@@simduino I'd think that should be good enough. When they're not getting paid, they'll cancel the contract soon enough. Just try making a claim if your premiums are in arrears! :)