{"id":7461,"date":"2022-10-20T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-for-pushing-customers-to-pay-more\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:42:47","slug":"amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-for-pushing-customers-to-pay-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-for-pushing-customers-to-pay-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon facing \u00a3900m lawsuit for \u2018pushing customers to pay more\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Litigants say millions of online consumers have paid too much and been denied choice<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a3900m class action claim against Amazon accuses the company of pushing customers towards \u201coffers\u201d that benefit the online retailer, but are not good deals for users.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint, which is to be filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, focuses on the company\u2019s \u201cBuy Box\u201d feature, which artificially promotes certain items above the rest in response to user searches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/20\/amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-claiming-users-manipulated-into-paying-higher-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4dfd8655e0a03620e13fac4f21826f4bef5276c3\/0_27_3000_1802\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dcee9214d7d8b47f246d2349ff103714\" title=\"Amazon facing \u00a3900m lawsuit for \u2018pushing customers to pay more\u2019\" \/>Litigants say millions of online consumers have paid too much and been denied choice<br \/>\nA \u00a3900m class action claim against Amazon accuses the company of pushing customers towards \u201coffers\u201d that benefit the online retailer, but are not good deals for users.<br \/>\nThe complaint, which is to be filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, focuses on the company\u2019s \u201cBuy Box\u201d feature, which artificially promotes certain items above the rest in response to user searches. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litigants say millions of online consumers have paid too much and been denied choice A \u00a3900m class action claim against Amazon accuses the company of pushing customers towards \u201coffers\u201d that benefit the online retailer, but are not good deals for users. The complaint, which is to be filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, focuses on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-for-pushing-customers-to-pay-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon facing \u00a3900m lawsuit for \u2018pushing customers to pay more\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}