26 Jan, 2023 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....
06 Oct, 2021 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...
11 May, 2020 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...
07 Sep, 2019 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...
02 Jun, 2019 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...
01 Mar, 2019 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 —...
29 Jun, 2018 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...