{"id":964650,"date":"2025-09-26T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964650"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:27:56","slug":"amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-claims-it-duped-customers-into-enrolling-in-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-to-settle-claims-it-duped-customers-into-enrolling-in-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims it duped customers into enrolling in Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. <\/p>\n<p>The Seattle company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties \u2014 the largest such fine in the agency\u2019s history for a rule violation \u2014 and $1.5 billion will be paid back to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions, the agency said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. The Seattle company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties \u2014 the largest such fine in the agency\u2019s history for a rule violation \u2014 and $1.5 billion will be paid back to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions, the agency said Thursday.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964650","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=964650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}