07-30-2025, 03:00 PM
AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS!!
Are you "thinking" that using their "Family/Household" option is letting your spouse share your PRIME membership? Well, we were...until I found out we WEREN'T!
YOU BETTER CHECK to make sure they're not DOUBLE-BILLING you!! I just discovered they had suckered my wife into a Prime membership and charged us $16/month for the past 2.5 years, on top of my annual subscription of $150!!
Before you wonder how this could happen, just realize that monthly charge can be disguised and buried in all the other similar named line items on the Amazon Visa. I feel suckerpunched, and found it only because my wife asked me to see if we got a refund for something she returned using our "Prime Visa"...which is the same card that Amazon uses to charge our PRIME membership...or should I say membershipS!
Figuring we couldn't be the only ones, I set out to research and to no surprise, IT'S A BIG PROBLEM!! I found many forums, reddit threads, and more. Amazon will "as a courtesy", give you 6 months credit. Big whoop.
In 2023, the FTC has filed and taken action against AMAZON for their practices of NON-CONSENSUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CANCELATION TRICKERY!! I'm not saying they fixed the problem, just that this reinforces that the problem exists and has happened enough to gain a federal level of complaint.
I just hope that my oversight and situation helps someone else from having the same happen.
FTC Takes Action Against Amazon for Enrolling Consumers in Amazon Prime Without Consent and Sabotaging Their Attempts to Cancel
Are you "thinking" that using their "Family/Household" option is letting your spouse share your PRIME membership? Well, we were...until I found out we WEREN'T!
YOU BETTER CHECK to make sure they're not DOUBLE-BILLING you!! I just discovered they had suckered my wife into a Prime membership and charged us $16/month for the past 2.5 years, on top of my annual subscription of $150!!
Before you wonder how this could happen, just realize that monthly charge can be disguised and buried in all the other similar named line items on the Amazon Visa. I feel suckerpunched, and found it only because my wife asked me to see if we got a refund for something she returned using our "Prime Visa"...which is the same card that Amazon uses to charge our PRIME membership...or should I say membershipS!
Figuring we couldn't be the only ones, I set out to research and to no surprise, IT'S A BIG PROBLEM!! I found many forums, reddit threads, and more. Amazon will "as a courtesy", give you 6 months credit. Big whoop.
In 2023, the FTC has filed and taken action against AMAZON for their practices of NON-CONSENSUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CANCELATION TRICKERY!! I'm not saying they fixed the problem, just that this reinforces that the problem exists and has happened enough to gain a federal level of complaint.
I just hope that my oversight and situation helps someone else from having the same happen.
FTC Takes Action Against Amazon for Enrolling Consumers in Amazon Prime Without Consent and Sabotaging Their Attempts to Cancel
Steve & Janice Vance
2015 Newell #1524
Glendora, CA