NYC - First in US to ban deceptive subscription practices - Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customer

[Nanjeanne]

into paying recurring charges and also targets ‘junk fees’

The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators. Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.

The city is also targeting so-called “junk fees” that raise the final price of everything from apartments to sporting events, with a proposed rule that requires sellers to “advertise the total price for any good or service, including all mandatory additional charges and fees, up front”, according to a release shared with the Guardian.

New York would be the first US city to implement such a ban.

“People shouldn’t have to wait on hold for half an hour or send a certified letter or show up to a store in person in order to cancel” a subscription, said Samuel AA Levine, the city’s commissioner of consumer and worker protection, in an interview.

The new measures are expected to be announced in a press conference on Friday morning.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban]

Mamdani is just good at this. Doing good and useful things for people that they can actually see in their own lives.

[calimary]

1. I'm really getting to like Mamdani!

His actions tend to favor what’s good for the so-called “little guy”!

[PatSeg]

2. This is the sort of measures

that Biden was implementing while President. He was going after the kind deceptions and fees that the average person can relate to.

Mamdani has been remarkable. The politician who campaigned for office appears to be the same man who took office.

[orangecrush]

3. Excellent

[NNadir]

4. That is impressive. We come to accept these things, and we shouldn't. When I check out of hotels sometimes on...

...business trips, I am sometimes surprised and a little shocked to discover a "resort fee" that was not indicated anywhere when booking,

It's fraud in a time where corruption and fraud is taking over our country.

[moreland01]

5. Been to a restaurant lately?

Saw a new charge on my restaurant tab recently "Environmental Impact Fee".

[NNadir]

6. I haven't seen that one yet, but prices are going through the roof. Tomorrow night...

...my wife and I are going to meet my son's girlfriend's parents at a restaurant (they picked it) and we're hoping to get out of there with less than a hundred bucks each.

[moreland01]

7. Thats a very good reason

to just not look at the prices and enjoy the big event. Think he's going to propose? Mazel tov!!

[NNadir]

8. We've been blindsided on whether there'll be a proposal, engagement or marriage.

We've thought we were going to hear about this several times before, but didn't.

She's a fine young woman who we like very much, loving and tolerant of my son's many eccentricities.

Apparently - according to her - her parents are very much like my in-laws were; they fight and argue all the time. They're nice to my son, however, which is all I care about.

We initiated the contact with them by sending them flowers for Passover. (This confused them.) It was just my wife exhibiting her enormously sweet personality. (She is, however, freaking out about the restaurant prices.)

I have the same rule my parents had; I keep my mouth shut about my feelings with respect to my son's lovers. The only exception was when my father met my future wife and took me aside, within minutes, to tell say, "You should marry that girl." I'd only been living with her for about a month at the time.

When he said that I told him more or less to mind his own business, but eventually I took his advice, which worked out great for me. I'm still madly in love with her, decades later.

After I married my wife, my father came to visit us, and apparently downloaded his opinion to my wife of every girlfriend I'd ever had and what he and my late mother thought of them. It was all new to me. I appreciated him having kept his mouth shut when I was young.

I will say I had negative views of a few of the women my sons dated, but said nothing about it. I would have tried my best to love them had they become daughters-in-law. Happily they didn't.

I won't have a problem if my son marries this woman though. She's very nice, despite what she says about her parents.

Only once did my parents meet one of my girlfriend's parents while I was just dating her. It was a disaster, but the relationship survived for a while but petered out, having nothing to do with my parents antipathy to her and her parents. I was 19; she, 17. I thought I was in love, but had not even a faint idea of what love really was. One can be happy one's dreams do not come true.