I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


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On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.



https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/re...-prime-refund/

"As long as you haven't used any Prime services, you'll automatically
get the £79 or £7.99 payment/s refunded. "

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On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.



Some goods are now subscription on Amazon and often the default tick
setting is NOT "one time purchase".


Random Example (note the default is a 4 times a year subscription)

https://tinyurl.com/47dadzyr


Check your Amazon order record for anything that may be consumed on a
regular basis - in the above example Vitamin D tablets but I've seen
cleaning products and pet treats with the same type of listing.

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 18:23:48 +0000, pinnerite
wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

You wouldn't be the first (here) it seems.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.

I saw it a few times before meaningly signing up for it and think it
could be misled if you weren't alert.

Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

Well, if it wasn't wanted, only that first month Shirley (before you
cancel it)?

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

I would be interested in the outcome as it will be something to tell
the Amazon scammers who tell me my Prime account is about to be
renewed. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa never knew....ha ha Amazon ae *******s

On 03/03/2021 18:40, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK
and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.



https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/re...-prime-refund/

"As long as you haven't used any Prime services, you'll automatically
get the £79 or £7.99 payment/s refunded. "

what about in his 30 day free prime trial ? ... which he never knew about

"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and
EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

They will in fact reverse that charge and cancel the prime service if you
ring them.

On 03/03/2021 18:49, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 18:23:48 +0000, pinnerite
wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

You wouldn't be the first (here) it seems.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.

I saw it a few times before meaningly signing up for it and think it
could be misled if you weren't alert.

Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

Well, if it wasn't wanted, only that first month Shirley (before you
cancel it)?

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

I would be interested in the outcome as it will be something to tell
the Amazon scammers who tell me my Prime account is about to be
renewed. ;-)

I find that a simple "**** off" is adequate.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 07:26:24 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile pest's latest troll**** unread

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On 03/03/2021 18:49, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 18:23:48 +0000, pinnerite
wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

You wouldn't be the first (here) it seems.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.

I saw it a few times before meaningly signing up for it and think it
could be misled if you weren't alert.

Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

Well, if it wasn't wanted, only that first month Shirley (before you
cancel it)?

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

I would be interested in the outcome as it will be something to tell
the Amazon scammers who tell me my Prime account is about to be
renewed. ;-)

Yeah when they first tried that they were using the actual price of
Prime renewal... so probably got lots of people happy not to cancel it!

(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)



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On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

Chances are you ordered something that was only available at the price
offered for Prime subscribers, and hence they automatically included a
subscription when you placed the order because that was the only way you
could complete the order. (other than dropping the item from the basket,
and searching for it again and choosing a higher priced version not
limited to Prime subscribers)

So using "dark pattern" web design, and some underhand tactics
certainly, but you can bet they won't have made obvious legal mistakes.

(they will refund you though)


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On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

That's very good, I hope you succeed.

I've bought a few things from amazon.co.uk over the last year and it gets harder each time to avoid automatically paying for Prime, or indeed an extra fee for faster delivery when free delivery is an alternative. The only way to avoid it is via a link which is deliberately obscure and much less prominent than all the other options.

I happen to think that in some cases Amazon provides a useful service so am willing to use it when other options fail, but feel quite strongly that its boss is rich enough without having me subscribe to Prime unwittingly.



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Are you sure, on the web site at least I've never had such an experience,
indeed before check out it will ask you if you want to continue. Maybe its
like that in the app or something.
Brian

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"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that could
easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and
EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


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On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:09:35 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:
snip

I would be interested in the outcome as it will be something to tell
the Amazon scammers who tell me my Prime account is about to be
renewed. ;-)

Yeah when they first tried that they were using the actual price of
Prime renewal... so probably got lots of people happy not to cancel it!

Yeah, hehe.

(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)

You have to give them some dues for persistence and imagination. I
would imagine Telesales is a bad enough job but when you are doing
immoral / illegal stuff (just to pay the rent) it must be pretty
demoralising.

Mind you, that does sometimes result in dealing with bi-polar people
where they constantly flip between being nice to hoping your whole
family dies of cancer.

Cheers, T i m

Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Are you sure, on the web site at least I've never had such an experience,
indeed before check out it will ask you if you want to continue. Maybe its
like that in the app or something.

Its actually the reverse here. I did want the prime free trial
because it was coming from the USA and prime gets you
a cheaper shipping rate and faster. Couldn’t work out how
to sign up for the free prime trial on the app, had to do
that on the browser.

"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK and
EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


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running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 8GB of DRAM.

"T i m" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:09:35 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:
snip

I would be interested in the outcome as it will be something to tell
the Amazon scammers who tell me my Prime account is about to be
renewed. ;-)

Yeah when they first tried that they were using the actual price of
Prime renewal... so probably got lots of people happy not to cancel it!

Yeah, hehe.

(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)

You have to give them some dues for persistence and imagination. I
would imagine Telesales is a bad enough job but when you are doing
immoral / illegal stuff (just to pay the rent) it must be pretty
demoralising.

More likely they do it all the time in the rest of their 'life'

Mind you, that does sometimes result in dealing with
bi-polar people where they constantly flip between
being nice to hoping your whole family dies of cancer.

On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:42:24 +0000, alan_m wrote:

On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK
and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.



Some goods are now subscription on Amazon and often the default tick
setting is NOT "one time purchase".


Random Example (note the default is a 4 times a year subscription)

https://tinyurl.com/47dadzyr


Check your Amazon order record for anything that may be consumed on a
regular basis - in the above example Vitamin D tablets but I've seen
cleaning products and pet treats with the same type of listing.


I recently got them to have a chat with me, to correct an accidental click
on a subscription order, they cancelled it immediately.

Not tried the app. The only time you do need to be careful is if you enable
single click buying and do it via the Amazon echo device, as although you do
need your code, often the prime setting is a little vague. Indeed its almost
as vague as the various subscriptions for music unlimited.
For the record its 3.99 for one device, any ability to share on other
devices, ie have your music playing in other rooms or to get it to pay from
another device is 9.99, then it gets confusing as there is a family plan
which means you can play more than one track on multiple machines at the
same time, plus a high definition stream which costs more still, then of
course there are discounts if you sign up to prime.
Quite why its so complicated eludes me. After all streaming your music to
more than one device is still only you listening, so why the price hike?
I guess there is some marketing drone somewhere working it all out on a
vast payroll.
Brian

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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Are you sure, on the web site at least I've never had such an experience,
indeed before check out it will ask you if you want to continue. Maybe
its like that in the app or something.

Its actually the reverse here. I did want the prime free trial
because it was coming from the USA and prime gets you
a cheaper shipping rate and faster. Couldn’t work out how
to sign up for the free prime trial on the app, had to do
that on the browser.

"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK
and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


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Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Not tried the app.

I use it most of the time.

The only time you do need to be careful is if you enable single click
buying and do it via the Amazon echo device, as although you do need your
code, often the prime setting is a little vague.

No it isnt with that config.

Indeed its almost as vague as the various subscriptions for music
unlimited. For the record its 3.99 for one device, any ability to share on
other devices, ie have your music playing in other rooms or to get it to
pay from another device is 9.99, then it gets confusing as there is a
family plan which means you can play more than one track on multiple
machines at the same time, plus a high definition stream which costs more
still, then of course there are discounts if you sign up to prime.

Quite why its so complicated eludes me.

Basically to suck you in.

After all streaming your music to more than one device is still only you
listening, so why the price hike?

Basically to suck you in.

I guess there is some marketing drone somewhere working it all out on a
vast payroll.

Yep.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Are you sure, on the web site at least I've never had such an
experience, indeed before check out it will ask you if you want to
continue. Maybe its like that in the app or something.

Its actually the reverse here. I did want the prime free trial
because it was coming from the USA and prime gets you
a cheaper shipping rate and faster. Couldn’t work out how
to sign up for the free prime trial on the app, had to do
that on the browser.

"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK
and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.


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On 03/03/2021 21:09, John Rumm wrote:
....
(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)

The people who call to tell me there is a problem with my broadband also
have problem with the question 'Which one?'. I then explain I have four
broadband connections, with three different providers at two different
addresses and they usually give up.


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On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:32:37 +0000, nightjar wrote:

On 03/03/2021 21:09, John Rumm wrote:
...
(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)

The people who call to tell me there is a problem with my broadband also
have problem with the question 'Which one?'. I then explain I have four
broadband connections, with three different providers at two different
addresses and they usually give up.

;-)

After ****ing one about for some time I let on that I don't have 'BT
Broadband' (that they were supposed to be calling from) and they
insisted that *all* Internet is provided by BT Broadband. ;-)

Bless them, they got the basic idea but didn't go as far as
independent cable suppliers, like VM (is Hull Telecom (was it) still
alive)?

Cheers, T i m

"Rod Speed" wrote in
:



"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording
that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both
UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

They will in fact reverse that charge and cancel the prime service if
you ring them.



I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime - but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime. Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

To end your Amazon Prime membership:

1,Go to your Prime membership.
2.Select Update, Cancel, and more, and follow the on-screen instructions.

JohnP wrote:

I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime - but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime. Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

It certainly requires you to keep your wits about you to avoid
accidentally selecting Prime. There is a checkbox which says it
will remember your chosen delivery mode, but fails to prevent it
offering Prime at every opportunity.

Every time I place an order, the button to move forward is
insignificant, but the Prime one is big and bright. One
accidental click and you are straight in, whereas cancelling
requires a series of confirmations that you _really_ want to
leave, with regular reminders of what you will be missing.

It is interesting to compare the number of chances it gives you
to change your mind about cancellation, with the lack of same
when you accidentally join.

Chris
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Plant amazing Acers.

On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:20:49 GMT, JohnP wrote:

snip

I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime - but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime.

Similarly it's been fairly common that when addressing someone's PC
that was running slowly to find it had several AV and other tools
installed because the owner hadn't de-selected the offers of 'Free'
stuff in the process.

Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

Similar with all the extra tools, either downgrading them to the free
versions or uninstalling the combo versions (AV + FW) and
re-installing only what you want.

The only really crafty ones were those where they had a series of tick
boxes that used a combination of positive and negative wording to get
you to not opt out of stuff but still not really and issue if you read
them properly.

Cheers, T i m

In article ,
T i m wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:32:37 +0000, nightjar wrote:

On 03/03/2021 21:09, John Rumm wrote:
...
(to throw them a curve ball, ask them which Amazon account they are
talking about. I tried that, and they gave me my phone number!)

The people who call to tell me there is a problem with my broadband also
have problem with the question 'Which one?'. I then explain I have four
broadband connections, with three different providers at two different
addresses and they usually give up.

;-)

After ****ing one about for some time I let on that I don't have 'BT
Broadband' (that they were supposed to be calling from) and they
insisted that *all* Internet is provided by BT Broadband. ;-)

Bless them, they got the basic idea but didn't go as far as
independent cable suppliers, like VM (is Hull Telecom (was it) still
alive)?

Hull Telecom became KCom (via Kingston Communications). They provide my
service, buT I don't deal with them directly.

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On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:55:52 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

snip

Bless them, they got the basic idea but didn't go as far as
independent cable suppliers, like VM (is Hull Telecom (was it) still
alive)?

Hull Telecom became KCom (via Kingston Communications). They provide my
service, buT I don't deal with them directly.

Thanks for the update charles.

Cheers, T i m

"T i m" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:20:49 GMT, JohnP wrote:

snip

I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime -
but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime.

Similarly it's been fairly common that when addressing someone's PC
that was running slowly to find it had several AV and other tools
installed because the owner hadn't de-selected the offers of 'Free'
stuff in the process.

Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

Similar with all the extra tools, either downgrading them to the free
versions or uninstalling the combo versions (AV + FW) and
re-installing only what you want.

The only really crafty ones were those where they had a series of tick
boxes that used a combination of positive and negative wording to get
you to not opt out of stuff but still not really and issue if you read
them properly.

Some of the versions of AVG would install the full version even
if you had downloaded the free one and told it to install that.
You could downgrade after installing it to the free one but
that had to be done deliberately. Very dubious behaviour imo.

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Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

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In article ,
pinnerite writes
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

"Knowingly" being the important word
I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording that
could easily be missed.
It was.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!

Complain and you will probably get it back. You can cancel Prime on
line.
I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both UK
and EU law.

Could be, but it's UK law that matters now.
I am determined to follow thus up.


Please do. They do their best to trick you into signing up. I got caught
out once but got an immediate refund when I complained.
--
bert

In article , John
Rumm writes
On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.
I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording
that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!
I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both
UK and EU law.
I am determined to follow thus up.

Chances are you ordered something that was only available at the price
offered for Prime subscribers, and hence they automatically included a
subscription when you placed the order because that was the only way
you could complete the order. (other than dropping the item from the
basket, and searching for it again and choosing a higher priced version
not limited to Prime subscribers)

So using "dark pattern" web design, and some underhand tactics
certainly, but you can bet they won't have made obvious legal mistakes.

(they will refund you though)


Some things are actually dearer by Prime.
--
bert

On 05/03/2021 11:59, bert wrote:
In article , John
Rumm writes
On 03/03/2021 18:23, pinnerite wrote:
I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.
Â*I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording
that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly £7.99 charge!
Â*I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both
UK and EU law.
Â*I am determined to follow thus up.

Chances are you ordered something that was only available at the price
offered for Prime subscribers, and hence they automatically included a
subscription when you placed the order because that was the only way
you could complete the order. (other than dropping the item from the
basket, and searching for it again and choosing a higher priced
version not limited to Prime subscribers)

So using "dark pattern" web design, and some underhand tactics
certainly, but you can bet they won't have made obvious legal mistakes.

(they will refund you though)


Some things are actually dearer by Prime.


Either way, they can still setup a deal that is only available to prime
members...

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Cheers,

John.

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pinnerite wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think almost everyone I know (no matter how IT savvy) has been
'tricked' into that one, they actually seem very keen on sending me 7
days of prime for 99p offers, which comes in handy to get everything off
the wish list, watch a box set and maybe a few years old film, then wait
for another few weeks for another offer.

Andy Burns wrote:
pinnerite wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think almost everyone I know (no matter how IT savvy) has been
'tricked' into that one, they actually seem very keen on sending me 7
days of prime for 99p offers, which comes in handy to get everything off
the wish list, watch a box set and maybe a few years old film, then wait
for another few weeks for another offer.

Every few months Amazon offers me a free trial of Prime for a month, I
always take it up, set the "remind me three days before it expires"
E-Mail flag and cancel it before it costs me anything.

You *can* beat Amazon at their own game.

--
Chris Green
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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pinnerite wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think almost everyone I know (no matter how IT savvy)

Not me

never fallen for it

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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pinnerite wrote:

I found a "subscription" charge for £7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think almost everyone I know (no matter how IT savvy)

Not me

never fallen for it

I have signed up for the free month, repeatedly, mainly
for the lower freight charge with stuff from the USA which
is better value than what I can buy from anywhere else.

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 06:38:51 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

I have signed up for the free month

Nobody talked to you or ask you anything, senile asshole!

--
Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
"**** you're thick/pathetic excuse for a troll."
MID:

On 04/03/2021 11:20, JohnP wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in
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"pinnerite" wrote in message
news:20210303182348.ca9093534f36931cc581e2f8@gmail .com...
I found a "subscription" charge for �7.99 marked Amazon Prime.
I have never knowingly signed up.

I think it might be one of those almost-concealed bits of wording
that could easily be missed.
Next, you've got a monthly �7.99 charge!

I think this amounts to inertia selling which is illegal under both
UK and EU law.

I am determined to follow thus up.

They will in fact reverse that charge and cancel the prime service if
you ring them.



I recently bought something and tried very hard to not agree to Prime - but
in my rush to get an order completed I accidentally agreed to Prime. Howver
it is very easy to cancel if you go into your accound and "Manage My
Account" or similar. I have saved the email acknowldegement.

Having just done my first Amazon order for a long time, I now realise
what the hurdles are in avoiding Amazon Prime - could hardly believe the
hassle involved !