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Originally Posted by Colmike9
Lots of mainstream companies are doing this now, too, mostly restaurants. They add on a fee to make more money but to make the menu items seem cheaper. To me it seems illegal, though..
But in this case, especially if it's a bigger company, maybe someone had the idea of making a signup fee to try to make more money on people who cancel and re-subscribe a lot to keep them rebilling, or maybe multiple fees if there is a trial somewhere. But, it's hard enough as it is these days for converting paysite signups that it seems like it will hurt their sales..
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The service charge thing, seems to be something they have started to do in the UK. I say started as I do not go to restaurants and I am gathering this is new from youtube vids.
I suspect it is legal, as all they have done is broken the bill down.
No different to having a hospital bill and it listing different costs in the bill.
Or even a gas or electric bill where they will give you a bill but sometimes break it down, one part cost of gas or electric and the other the monthly charge.
In some ways I see the logic, as many join and cancel for the month so they do not have to pay the rebill fee. It is I suspect even with Netflix people join then cancel, and download as much as they can in the month, then join again and repeat months later.