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The Attorney General of New York is suing Sirius XM, for making their subscription cancellation process unreasonably tedious and long. The AG says this is illegal business practice.
New York Attorney General Letitia James this week filed a lawsuit against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming audio company of “trapping consumers” in subscriptions and “maintaining deliberately long and burdensome cancellation processes.”
An investigation by James’ office found that SiriusXM “forces its subscribers to call or chat online with an agent to cancel a subscription, then deliberately draws out those interactions as part of its strategy to prevent subscribers from canceling.” The lawsuit alleges that SiriusXM violated state and federal laws concerning subscriptions that renew automatically by failing to provide subscribers with a cancelation mechanism that is “simple, timely and easy to use.” In addition, the suit alleges that SiriusXM engaged in fraud and deception by misleading subscribers seeking to cancel their accounts.
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I've never had Sirius; but I have run into some auto-renewal online subscriptions that are very long and tedious to cancel. I know these companies are doing this very deliberately, to make it as much a hassle as possible, so that people just give up or are confused on how to cancel.
The Attorney General of New York is suing Sirius XM, for making their subscription cancellation process unreasonably tedious and long. The AG says this is illegal business practice.
New York Attorney General Letitia James this week filed a lawsuit against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming audio company of “trapping consumers” in subscriptions and “maintaining deliberately long and burdensome cancellation processes.”
An investigation by James’ office found that SiriusXM “forces its subscribers to call or chat online with an agent to cancel a subscription, then deliberately draws out those interactions as part of its strategy to prevent subscribers from canceling.” The lawsuit alleges that SiriusXM violated state and federal laws concerning subscriptions that renew automatically by failing to provide subscribers with a cancelation mechanism that is “simple, timely and easy to use.” In addition, the suit alleges that SiriusXM engaged in fraud and deception by misleading subscribers seeking to cancel their accounts.
SiriusXM Sued Over ‘Illegal’ Cancellation Process, New York Attorney General Says
The process of canceling a SiriusXM subscription isn’t just annoying — it’s illegal, according to a lawsuit filed by New York’s attorney general. New York Attorney General Letitia James this week filed a lawsuit against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming audio company of...
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I've never had Sirius; but I have run into some auto-renewal online subscriptions that are very long and tedious to cancel. I know these companies are doing this very deliberately, to make it as much a hassle as possible, so that people just give up or are confused on how to cancel.
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