Prechecked cross sales do surfers have any responsibility whatsoever?

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Short answer is always "yes, the surfer has some responsbility", but the reality is "no, because the programs aren't being entirely straight forward about it".

Most of the prechecked cross sales are checkmarks BELOW the "join" button. For most people, those prechecks are below the fold, you have to scroll to find them, or in many cases you have to scroll far down the page to find cost of each one. None of the sites is straight forward with a total cost number. In other words, nowhere on any page does it say "by clicking enter you agree to $2.95 trial plus $1 trial plus a $1 trial, all of which will rebill within 3 days at $120 per month".

The reality is that this is a variation of what Zango got in shit with the FTC for - disguising the enter link, making the download link far above the terms, and pre-checking boxes to make a positive outcome.

Ok, so you don't have a problem with them in principle just how some of the companies go about implementing them? Correct??

So, for example, if they had the checks above the final submit button with the full terms inside a box above the buy button that would be ok?