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Amazon Prime cost increase. Got my letter today
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<blockquote data-quote="carguy" data-source="post: 277072" data-attributes="member: 12521"><p>I'm still on a 6 month free trial, had no plans to renew and pay for it.</p><p></p><p>This seems to have hit the news recently.. ut oh...</p><p><em></em></p><p><em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/amazon.com.htm" target="_blank">Amazon</a> claims that a $79 annual membership for <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/amazon-com.htm" target="_blank">Amazon</a> Prime provides free two-day shipping on "millions" of items, but for some products, the company is accused of encouraging sellers to inflate shipping prices, according to two recent lawsuits.</em><em>“The bottom line is the free shipping that Amazon offered to its Prime members wasn’t free,” said Kim Stephens, attorney for one of the plaintiffs, adding that he was “shocked” by Amazon’s alleged pricing practices.</em></p><p><em>Marcia Burke of Alabama says she became an Amazon Prime member and used its "free shipping" service at least 18 times in 2010, according to her lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Seattle. Prime-eligible products are designated on Amazon's website.</em></p><p><em>In what she hopes will be certified as a class-action lawsuit, Burke accuses Amazon of encouraging third-party vendors to increase their prices to Prime members by the amount they charged others for shipping, without revealing that a portion of those alleged "inflated" prices was for shipping fees, the lawsuit claims.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>more...</p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-customers-accuse-commerce-giant-cheating-prime-members/story?id=22882043" target="_blank">Amazon Customers Accuse E-Commerce Giant of Cheating Prime Members - ABC News</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="carguy, post: 277072, member: 12521"] I'm still on a 6 month free trial, had no plans to renew and pay for it. This seems to have hit the news recently.. ut oh... [I] [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/amazon.com.htm"]Amazon[/URL] claims that a $79 annual membership for [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/amazon-com.htm"]Amazon[/URL] Prime provides free two-day shipping on "millions" of items, but for some products, the company is accused of encouraging sellers to inflate shipping prices, according to two recent lawsuits.[/I][I]“The bottom line is the free shipping that Amazon offered to its Prime members wasn’t free,” said Kim Stephens, attorney for one of the plaintiffs, adding that he was “shocked” by Amazon’s alleged pricing practices.[/I] [I]Marcia Burke of Alabama says she became an Amazon Prime member and used its "free shipping" service at least 18 times in 2010, according to her lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Seattle. Prime-eligible products are designated on Amazon's website.[/I] [I]In what she hopes will be certified as a class-action lawsuit, Burke accuses Amazon of encouraging third-party vendors to increase their prices to Prime members by the amount they charged others for shipping, without revealing that a portion of those alleged "inflated" prices was for shipping fees, the lawsuit claims.[/I] more... [url=http://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-customers-accuse-commerce-giant-cheating-prime-members/story?id=22882043]Amazon Customers Accuse E-Commerce Giant of Cheating Prime Members - ABC News[/url] [/QUOTE]
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