1/26/2023 11:47:32 PM When does the FTC step in over a free trial that automatically converts to a ongoing subscription? By Terri Seligman When it gets 70,000+ complaints. Back in 2016, the FTC settled with beauty product and nutritional supplement marketer, NutriClick....
10/6/2021 8:16:02 PM Strict to Stricter: California Updates Auto-Renew Law Again By Terri Seligman California already has one of the strictest and most detailed auto-renew laws in the country, providing the model for other states, like...
5/11/2020 3:51:26 PM Not-So-Free Free Trials: Part 2 By Terri Seligman Way back in September (in a galaxy far far away, or so it now seems), I blogged about a case brought by the FTC against several companies...
9/7/2019 9:42:21 PM Again With The Not-So-Free Free Trials? FTC Gets Injunction By Terri Seligman As alleged by the FTC, the defendants operated an online subscription scam, involving eight different product lines, primarily personal...
6/2/2019 12:00:00 AM Risk Free: Not For These Marketers By Terri Seligman Free trials. Auto-renewals. Negative options. Continuity programs. ROSCA. You've seen these words a lot in this blog because of the...
3/1/2019 2:12:04 AM The Truth Will Set You FREE By Terri Seligman Do I write about free trials and negative option programs a lot? You betcha, baby. That’s because these programs — when done improperly —...
6/29/2018 9:17:08 PM FTC, EFTA, ROSCA, TSR...Not A Tasty Alphabet Soup By Terri Seligman The FTC announced today that it obtained a court order barring the two remaining defendants in a group of marketers from engaging in...