{"id":964584,"date":"2025-09-26T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964584"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:25:12","slug":"sophisticated-subscription-traps-amazon-to-pay-2-5-bn-settlement-for-tricking-customers-into-signing-up-for-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/sophisticated-subscription-traps-amazon-to-pay-2-5-bn-settlement-for-tricking-customers-into-signing-up-for-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sophisticated subscription traps\u2019: Amazon to pay $2.5 bn settlement for \u2018tricking customers\u2019 into signing up for Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has agreed to a record $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). With this settlement, Jeff Bezos\u2018 Amazon resolved a two-year legal battle over claims that it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription and made cancellations deliberately difficult. <\/p>\n<p>The settlement, announced Thursday, includes a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in refunds to about 35 million consumers who were allegedly harmed by Amazon\u2019s \u201cdeceptive Prime enrollment practices\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has agreed to a record $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). With this settlement, Jeff Bezos\u2018 Amazon resolved a two-year legal battle over claims that it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription and made cancellations deliberately difficult. The settlement, announced Thursday, includes a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in refunds to about 35 million consumers who were allegedly harmed by Amazon\u2019s \u201cdeceptive Prime enrollment practices\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}