Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
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Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#2They should do legalshield next
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#3Is this one of those situations where we sign up and get a bit of money from the company, or will we have already been contacted?
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#4The actual win isn't the fine, it's
> and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime.
which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#5Some more discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365712
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#6Huh I forgot to cancel and called and they refunded me lol.
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#7They should do legalshield next
I’ve never heard of legalshield. What’s their deal?
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#8The actual win isn't the fine, it's > and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime. which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.
Which because they have gotten away with it for so long, everyone else has been copying (or well I guess this has been going on for decades in various forms) them.
Ex, netflix, which has decided to pop up a 'we noticed there are people who don't live with you using your account, click here to pay us another $9/month' every time it starts on my TV, presumably because my underage child, who legally lives with me, uses it on her phone when she is away at school for 5 months a year.
And then when someone clicked the default pay us button, I was unable to figure out how to remove the charge without actually calling and telling them I was canceling after 20+ years. (the whole extra member thing wasn't showing up in the web ui, no idea why, maybe its because of the TV clicking process).
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#9The actual win isn't the fine, it's > and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime. which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.
Huh, I was wondering why cancelling after a free trial recently was easier than the last time I cancelled a few years ago.
Re: Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
#10The actual win isn't the fine, it's > and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime. which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.
It is two screens, three clicks - not hard at all.