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> Hi Josh, it's good of you to step up and have this discussion.

He's not having a discussion, he quickly tried to "defend" this website, as if he really believed it is not misleading, found that everyone saw right through his dishonesty, and cowardly retreated from any discussion.

> The simple way to fix this is to have NO DEFAULT. When a user clicks check out, you should show them a page with both options equally balanced.

This is exactly what the German version of the site looks like[0]. Because these sort of misleading practices are considered fraudulent in Germany.

Fraudulent.

They know perfectly well how they are misleading customers and feel they can get away with it, except in Germany. I wonder if they make any profit in Germany?

[0] the German version is no longer flat-out misleading, it still could be a lot clearer, but at least the offer is so fishy, it stinks.



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