{"id":635045,"date":"2026-09-24T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635045\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:34:09","slug":"some-amazon-customers-will-receive-cheques-for-up-to-200-following-settlement-with-us-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635045\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Amazon customers will receive cheques for up to $200 following settlement with US regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMAZON CUSTOMERS MAY see cheques of up to $200 arrive in the post as part of a revised order following a $2.5 billion (\u20ac2.1 billion) settlement the tech company struck with US regulators last year.<\/p>\n

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that the trillion-dollar delivery company tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.<\/p>\n

The revised order, announced last week, aims to reach more people and speed up the process, allowing automatic payments instead of creating unnecessary paperwork.<\/p>\n

Amazon will begin issuing automatic redress payments from 1 October to millions of additional people who used between 11 and 20 Prime benefits during a one-year period, up from 10 benefits, which was the deal previously.<\/p>\n

Refunds will be issued up to $200 (\u20ac170), increasing from $51 (\u20ac44).<\/p>\n

The payments will be made via electronic payment (Venmo or PayPal) or mailed cheques.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that Irish customers may be eligible for a refund if they previously signed up to Prime via Amazon.com \u2013 the \u201ccom\u201d domain is under the ultimate jurisdiction of US law.<\/p>\n

The Journal\u00a0previously reported<\/a> that Irish customers had received cheques in the mail to the tune of $51.<\/p>\n

Additional information about the refund process can be found on the FTC\u2019s Amazon refund page.<\/a><\/p>\n

FTC said that it will not be contacting anyone in relation to the refunds, so if this happens, it is likely a scam.<\/p>\n

It also noted that no one from Amazon will ever ask you for money to get a refund.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMAZON CUSTOMERS MAY see cheques of up to $200 arrive in the post as part of a revised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3468,18966,72,86780,61,60,269745,131104,269746],"class_list":["post-635045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-business","tag-great-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prime-of-life","tag-refund","tag-vouchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}