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> What? You want to know the fees you ask for the fees. If you are not wise enough to ask maybe you deserve to be scammed by legitimate companies.

This is like walking into a grocery store and no seeing their prices, if you're interested in milk prices, you gotta ask an employee. If you're not wise enough to ask maybe you deserve to be charged extra.

Ask who? Have you ever tried contacting any of these companies for anything? You get a run around, sit on hold for an hour, and when you do get a human they don't speak English and have no idea what they are talking about. The sales people will tell you anything just to get their commission.

Ok, tbh I'm just a troublemaker implementing Aahz's Law.

Anyway, those calls should definitely be recorded by the client. While accountability isn't brought back in full scale, GrapheneOS allows recording.

And what's the next step you're proposing with said data? Your post suggests you believe you're the first person to think of this idea.

This has regularly been a complaint among utility/service agencies at the state level, a regular complaint to the FTC, a regular complaint to the FCC, and a regular complaint to local, state, and national politicians.

https://gethuman.com/

So for comparison shopping, you ask 15 different ISPs for the fees on each of their 10 plans? I mean, what?

The market does not, in fact, have to operate on pointless complexity and fake difficulty.

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