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Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion Over Prime Subscriptions


Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission.

Prime trailers at an Amazon delivery station in Dallas. Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission. The company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties and will refund $1.5 billion to customers to resolve allegations that it misled millions of customers into signing up for Prime and then making it intentionally difficult to cancel, according to FTC officials.

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