FTC Lawsuit Against Amazon’s Prime Is Poor Use of Limited Resources

The Federal Trade Commission is ready in arms for its upcoming suit against Amazon alleging that the company tricked customers into signing up for the company’s “Prime” membership and then made it difficult to cancel that subscription service. Competition fellow, Jessica Melugin, highlights the FTC’s use of limited resources to fight a company that provides for 150 billion members over a solution in search of potential harm rather than investigating true customer fraud or deception.