{"id":276734,"date":"2026-09-01T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:58:12","slug":"pa-sues-amazon-alleges-ad-auction-scheme-hurt-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276734\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Sues Amazon, Alleges Ad Auction Scheme Hurt Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2026\/08\/ftc-states-sue-amazon-over-secret-ad-surcharge-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In its own release,<\/a> the FTC rebutted Amazon&#8217;s stance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen one of the world\u2019s largest online retailers engages in unfair and deceptive conduct, the impact can be staggering,\u201d FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly higher prices. These higher costs were largely passed on to American consumers. The FTC won\u2019t allow this deception to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Sunday, the attorneys general of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington also are participants in the suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its own release, the FTC rebutted Amazon&#8217;s stance. \u201cWhen one of the world\u2019s largest online retailers engages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-276734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}