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Awesome that the ACCC, Australia's consumer watchdog, is taking this up.

It's really shitty that companies believe they can pull these stunts and get away with it.

The ACCC is actually quite switched on to any misleading conduct.

They have gone after Airbnb / Airlines / Hotel Booking / Concert Tickets - for misleading conduct.

Especially business that use drip pricing (adding compulsory hidden fees later) or misleading prices like in the Microsoft case.

Anything sneaky - they're normally right on to it.

I recently learned this, but the reason Steam offers 2-hour no-questions-asked full refunds was partially because of a lawsuit by the ACCC