PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia City Council will consider a bill to make it easier to cancel subscriptions that automatically charge your credit card \u2014 whether you\u2019re still using the service or not.<\/p>\n
Council member Rue Landau\u2019s bill states that anyone doing business in Philadelphia must obtain affirmative consent before charging for an automatic renewal. They must also provide a mechanism to cancel that is as easy to use as the sign up, with no conditions, obstructions or delays.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve all been there. Signing up for a subscription takes seconds but trying to cancel it can mean suddenly you\u2019re navigating endless menus, sitting on hold or jumping through hoops just to stop paying for something you don\u2019t want anymore,\u201d said Landau.<\/p>\n
The bill, called \u201cClick to Cancel,\u201d also includes free trial periods, and requires a five-day notice be sent to consumers before an automatic renewal date.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo hidden fees, no endless run-around, no more trapping people in subscriptions they don\u2019t want,\u201d said Landau. \u201cAt a time when so many Philadelphia families are watching every dollar, we should be protecting people\u2019s hard-earned money, not allowing bad actors to take advantage of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several states, including Delaware, have similar laws and New York City began enforcing a \u201cclick to cancel\u201d bill this month.<\/p>\n
Landau\u2019s bill will now head to a committee for a hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia City Council will consider a bill to make it easier to cancel subscriptions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129304,2265,69,5648,71,70,107954],"class_list":["post-317299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-click-to-cancel","tag-finance","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-city-council","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-subscriptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}