WA joins lawsuit against Amazon alleging inflated ad pricing
Washington joins FTC-led lawsuit accusing Amazon of inflating ad prices with undisclosed surcharges affecting over 500,000 businesses.Summary
Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown announced that Washington has joined a Federal Trade Commission-led lawsuit alongside 22 other states alleging that Amazon has for years inflated advertising prices on its platform by imposing undisclosed surcharges on more than 500,000 small and medium-sized businesses. The complaint cites a 2023 internal Amazon memo in which employees acknowledged the practice was not "doing the right thing for the advertisers." The coalition includes attorneys general from 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, and Vermont.
(Source：Kiro 7 News)