• Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC claims over Prime signups and cancellations. • The FTC said Amazon “tricked and trapped” people into recurring subscriptions. • People who signed up for Prime in the US between June 23, 2019, and June 23, 2025 could be eligible for a payout.

With Amazon’s next Prime sale just weeks away, the company could have done without the headlines its subscription service is making today. Amazon just agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims it made Prime signups too easy and cancellations too hard.

As reported by The New York Times, the settlement came just days into a Seattle jury trial stemming from a 2023 Federal Trade Commission lawsuit. Regulators accused Amazon of steering people into Prime memberships during checkout by highlighting free sh

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