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Technology@beehaw.org · 25 days ago

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to

Technology@beehaw.org · 25 days ago

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Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission which said the online giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships, and made it difficult to cancel after they did so.

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Just based in the ballpark numbers from another on of these articles I saw today, it works out to like 40 some bucks a person. Just absolute garbage.
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  Fines are just the price of doing business.

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