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Amazon to pay $2.5B to settle charges that it coerced customers into signing up for Prime

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The online retailer did not admit any wrongdoing as part of a settlement with the FTC, but agreed to pay $1 billion in penalties and $1.5 billion in refunds to consumers.

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