Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says

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16. I am a Prime member and have been for years

I believe my savings on shipping costs have more than justified the cost of Prime. Even so, I find it annoying that the membership fee seems to go up almost every year. Here's the kicker - I'm able to share my Prime membership with my son and DIL who live in another state. Son and DIL are actually getting more benefit from the Prime shipping cost savings than I am, simply because they return every other order for one reason or another. (!) There's no limit on the free returns of Amazon Prime orders, and it's easy to do.

Another benefit of Prime is the music and video/TV show offerings - but I must admit for me it's a secondary consideration. When I originally joined Prime they didn't have the streaming yet, and I thought it was worth the cost even then.

I guess I'm a satisfied customer of Amazon. However the way they suck people into the video and music streaming is probably borderline larceny, so it's good that they're getting spanked by the FTC.