Did you or someone you know get tickets to Taylor Swift or any other concert, show, or sporting event in the last few years?

Right at the end of your transaction, were expensive fees suddenly tacked on -- making the final price much higher than you expected?

If yes, those were what's called "junk fees" -- and you can fight back.

We are recruiting an army of people willing to fight for policies that end junk fees by Ticketmaster, airlines, hotels, cell and cable companies, banks, and more. Click here to fight back.

And, chip in to our fight against junk fees here.

On the page, we give you the option to describe in detail how junk fees have impacted you. We want to elevate these stories in the media and with lawmakers. The more vivid, the more powerful -- like this story from Kayla C. about event ticket fees:

"I got tickets yesterday on Ticketmaster and they were originally $55 with an additional $11.90 processing fee and $3 service fee...Events are important to local economies and I can't tell you the number of events I have passed up because the fees (as well as resellers) make them completely unreasonably expensive."

And this from Kathy K.: "I purchased 4 tickets to a Jeff Dunham show. The fees I paid would have purchased 1 1/2 tickets."

President Biden has called for new policies against junk fees. Some actions require new laws, but two of our top allies have already begun using existing power to fight junk fees -- Lina Khan, who chairs the FTC, and Rohit Chopra, who chairs Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In his 2023 State Of The Union, Biden said:

I know how unfair it feels when a company overcharges you and gets away with it…

We’ll ban surprise "resort fees" that hotels tack on to your bill. These fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren’t even resorts.

We’ll make cable internet and cell phone companies stop charging you up to $200 or more when you decide to switch to another provider.

We’ll cap service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies disclose all fees upfront.

And we’ll prohibit airlines from charging up to $50 round trip for families just to sit together. Baggage fees are bad enough – they can’t just treat your child like a piece of luggage.

Americans are tired of being played for suckers. Pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so companies stop ripping us off.

Junk fees are a tax on you by greedy corporations, and we are recruiting people willing to fight back. Click here -- and tell us how you have been personally impacted by junk fees.

And, chip in to our fight against junk fees here.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- The PCCC Team (@BoldProgressive)

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