Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says
There needs to be regulation here, and not just on cable. If you&#x27;re going to charge it to me, you shouldn&#x27;t be able to wait until checkout (or even worse, the first month&#x27;s bill) to tell me what the price actually is.<p>Comparison is the mechanism by which competition drives a healthy economy. There&#x27;s less value in competition the harder comparing them is. It&#x27;s really hard to compare when you have to dig all the way to checkout to find what you&#x27;d pay.<p>Imagine you&#x27;re at the supermarket and different brands of milk were listed at one price, but each had different fees when you get to the cash register. No one but the cashier can tell you what each option actually costs. How many people are going to get out of the line and go back and try another brand of mystery milk when they find out they chose one with a $1 &quot;cattle fee?&quot; It makes competition weak and needs to be illegal.