Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC’s Prime lawsuit
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A hefty $1.5 billion of the total will go toward customer refunds for those who enrolled in Prime without their knowledge or were unable to cancel.
Amazon is on trial in Seattle after the FTC accused the retailer of tricking customers into Prime memberships and making cancellations difficult.
A jury will decide if Amazon tricked its customers into signing up for Prime and made it difficult to cancel the subscription service, as the FTC alleges.