FTC Files Suit Against Amazon For In-App Purchases

Charliemopps writes The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against Amazon for illegally billing parents for in-app purchases of digital goods prior to requiring a password for making purchases. "The FTC's complaint, filed Thursday, asks the court to force Amazon to refund the money to those customers. In-app purchases typically involve virtual goods bought within an app, like extra coins or energy in a game, according to the FTC. Some bills totaled hundreds of dollars, and some virtual goods cost as much as $99.99." We recently told you about Amazon's refusal to reach a settlement over these FTC complaints.

Comments

Where is section 5?

[sumdumass]

Here is the complaint in PDF
http://www.ftc.gov/system/file...

It says section 5(a) but I'm having trouble locating section 5.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

Anyone got any ideas where I'm doing it wrong?

Re:Failing to learn from history?

[rmdingler]

Indeed. They were persuaded to refund 32.5 million or so US Dollars by the ftc...arguably a small percentage of the take from the operation.

They knew what they were doing, and they also know only a given percentage of those affected will ever seek damages.

If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.