Edit:
- links fixed and added missing yt link
Links in video description:
- https://www.smartwool.com/customer-service/terms-of-use.html
- [How ABC Fitness & Best Fitness Nashua scam customers with INTENTIONALLY DIFFICULT to cancel policies] https://youtu.be/BVKhW9pzmYQ
- [LA Fitness’ cancellation process is a scam] https://youtu.be/XdQHuLHBP6g
- [Roku’s Ransom: Agree to Forced Arbitration or Lose Your TV!] https://youtu.be/AddtrV6UFFs
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/roku-disables-tvs-and-streaming-devices-until-users-consent-to-forced-arbitration/
- [Blizzard locks you out of account if you don’t agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration] https://youtu.be/5YU8xw_Q_P8
Short Summary
- Importance of forced arbitration in cases involving expensive products that can harm consumers, such as laptops or smartphones with design defects.
- Companies like Roku and Blizzard using forced arbitration agreements manipulatively, making it difficult for consumers to opt out of these terms. 3 Criticism of companies opting consumers into arbitration agreements via email, while requiring them to send a physical letter to opt out, which is inconvenient and deters many people from taking action.
- Unfair and limiting nature of this unequal process on consumers’ rights.
- Negative experience shared with Best Fitness NAS, a gym with challenging cancellation procedures.
- Criticism of the gym’s practice of easy online sign-ups but difficult cancellations, likening it to a disrespectful and scammy practice.
- Argument for customers to be able to cancel online if they signed up online and not be forced to go through such a hassle.
- Frustration with companies like LA Fitness that have similar cancellation policies.
- Emphasis on the importance of consent and criticism of assuming consent if there is no response, comparing it to a disturbing scenario involving dating.
- Strong condemnation of companies engaging in such behaviors, likening it to a “rapist mentality” and stating that companies engaging in such behavior deserve to lose customers.
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