On 22/04/18 11:29, newshound wrote:
On 22/04/2018 09:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/04/18 09:49, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/04/2018 09:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Amazon signed me up without my say so for 'Prime' and if I hadÂ* not
taken prompt action it would have cost me £75 a year.

SFAIK, it is illegal for you to be enrolled in a paying service
without your consent. However, if you have, at any time, accepted a
trial of Prime, you have agreed to it being automatically renewed
when the trial period ends. Given the way they present the options,
it is not difficult accidentally to chose to trial Prime when
navigating to the checkout.

Except that having been caught that way once, I am uber careful.



Me too.

I *may* be wrong, but GDPR might be tightening up on this. OK Amazon are
sneaky, but they are also pretty good on customer service. I suspect
that if you found a debit, and challenged it, they would refund it.
They did last toime.

This time they sent some emails saying 'welcome to prime' so I said WTF?
and they had signed me up. I cancelled immediately


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