Inadvertent Amazon Prime

Chamarie

I consider myself to be a reasonably savvy internet user however Amazons trickery certainly beat me. I placed an order with Amazon a week or so ago and managed to avoid the pitfall of inadvertently signing up to Amazon Prime. Sadly a second purchase was not so successful as I received an email informing me of my Prime free trial. Have no idea what I pressed wrong but clearly site is set to entrap people. I have since cancelled the apparent membership and not used any freebies. I am fairly sure there are many other people out there who similarly unwittingly subscribed and have not been aware to cancel their "membership" that they did not even want. Someone needs to really look into this sort of activity as it is surely just open entrapment. Microsoft operate in similar way, "Do you want block adds", simply click here...     I believe it is called click bait but it has to stop.

JJ_Egan

What is the question ??

Amazon Prime never entraps me nor millions of others .

J_B

We fell for it on 20/8/2020 and again on 30/11/2020

It's not easy to avoid

dan958

The free 7 day amazon prime trial sign is extremely obvious when they offer it to you at checkout (having just signed up for it a few days ago for the free delivery, and cancelled it right after my order).
Are you reading anything at checkout, or just spamming the submit buttons?

ballyblack

yes its easy to get Prime but easy to cancel. Ranting on here will not change anything!

Neil_Jones

Chamarie said:

I consider myself to be a reasonably savvy internet user however Amazons trickery certainly beat me. I placed an order with Amazon a week or so ago and managed to avoid the pitfall of inadvertently signing up to Amazon Prime. Sadly a second purchase was not so successful as I received an email informing me of my Prime free trial. Have no idea what I pressed wrong but clearly site is set to entrap people. I have since cancelled the apparent membership and not used any freebies. I am fairly sure there are many other people out there who similarly unwittingly subscribed and have not been aware to cancel their "membership" that they did not even want. Someone needs to really look into this sort of activity as it is surely just open entrapment. Microsoft operate in similar way, "Do you want block adds", simply click here...     I believe it is called click bait but it has to stop.

This is not "entrapment" by any stretch of the imagination. Entrapment arises when a person is encouraged by someone in some official capacity to commit a crime. It is not a crime to join up to Amazon Prime and you do not need to sign up to Amazon Prime at all.  Rather you need to look where you're clicking before you click.

With regards to the Microsoft complaint, that was probably an advert you saw.  There are solutions for that, and it is not necessarily clickbait, which is defined as s a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, with a defining characteristic of being deceptive, typically sensationalized or misleading.  What you saw may have been a genuine link to an article about ad-blockers for example.

EssexExile

I tend to get caught when they change the procedure, you do what you always did but this time you end up a prime member! At least it's easy to become an ex-member before any money changes hands. If you accidently get signed up for Audible UK that's a whole different kettle of fish.

Boffinman

Amazon really need to make it MUCH more obvious that you're signing up for Prime. I got caught out once a few years ago. Easy to cancel but you really shouldn't need to go through the hassle.

pbartlett

@boffinman yes I agree - in fact I want an option on my account which if I tick means I never ever ever want to hear about AP again in my life I just don't want it thank you very much.

JJ_Egan

I don't especially as i get many Free Prime offers .

RumRat

People usually get Amazon Prime initially because they are after something for nothing. In this instance, free delivery..
It's not by any means entrapment as you need to agree to it....As the OP admits, they have no idea what they pressed.
I'm not sure what the OP is talking about regarding Microsoft and blocking ads, perhaps some more context might help.