Jury to look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime—and made it hard to leave

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2 thoughts on “Jury to look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime—and made it hard to leave

  1. You can’t help stupid. No one likes successful companies, so they try to extort money from them. Amazon couldn’t be easier to cancel, but you can’t help stupid.

    1. In order to cancel Prime ,I talked at least 3 times to them via phone plus an online chat. It definitely was not easy to cancel before free trial ended.

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