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- Updated: Nov. 05, 2025, 7:11 p.m.
- Published: Nov. 04, 2025, 10:19 a.m.
FILE – An Amazon company logo marks the facade of a building, March 18, 2022, in Schoenefeld near Berlin. Companies make it easy to subscribe to their services — and frustratingly hard to unsubscribe. In June, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint alleging Amazon duped people into signing up for Amazon Prime subscriptions and then designed a “labyrinthine” cancellation process. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)AP
Some Amazon Prime customers who enrolled between 2019 and 2025 could be eligible for part of a settlement over claims that it was too easy to accidentally sign up for the service.
The online mega-retailer has agreed to a $2.5 billion settlement. Of that amount, $1 billion is being paid in fines and penalties to the government and the remaining $1.5 billion is going back to consumers in the form of settlement payments of up to $51.
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