{"id":964972,"date":"2025-09-27T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964972"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:59:16","slug":"amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-for-allegedly-duping-millions-to-sign-up-for-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/amazon-to-pay-2-5-billion-for-allegedly-duping-millions-to-sign-up-for-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to pay $2.5 billion for allegedly duping millions to sign up for Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. will pay $2.5 billion in fines and reimbursements to people it allegedly duped to sign up for Prime memberships.<\/p>\n<p>While a win for consumers and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the settlement is relatively painless for Amazon, which makes $2.5 billion in sales every 33 hours. Its shares were nearly unchanged after the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. will pay $2.5 billion in fines and reimbursements to people it allegedly duped to sign up for Prime memberships. While a win for consumers and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the settlement is relatively painless for Amazon, which makes $2.5 billion in sales every 33 hours. Its shares were nearly unchanged after the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964972","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}