Amazon to Refund $70 Million for Unauthorized In-App Purchases

Amazon has started offering customers a refund service for unauthorized purchases in mobile apps (IAP) made by their children.

According to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), from November 2011 to May 2016, unauthorized IAPs totaling $70 million were made on Amazon in the USA.

The FTC, through the court, obtained from Amazon the introduction of compensation for unauthorized in-app purchases in the fall of 2016. The trial lasted two years.

Amazon offered to reimburse such expenses with gift certificates, but a federal judge rejected this initiative, noting that in this way the company “will undoubtedly appropriate part of the disputed profits.”

Refund requests will be accepted until May 28, 2018.

Source: Pocket Gamer