Subscriptions from SinglesSwag Website

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose terms of subscriptions

Le Tote Subscriptions

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions

Finders Seekers Subscriptions

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions

Bump Boxes: Monthly Pregnancy Subscription Gifts

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions

Subscriptions to Terra’s Kitchen

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions

Subscriptions to Simple Habit Meditation Products

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions

Time’s Magazine Subscriptions

Allegations: Offering free or discounted magazines for a specific period of time without adequately disclosing that consumers are enrolled in a program that automatically renews subscriptions

Subscriptions to Reader’s Digest and Other Magazines

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose that subscriptions to magazines will be automatically renewed

Promotional Subscriptions from Gannett Co.

Allegations: Misleadingly promising new customers will pay reduced rates for promotional subscriptions for a specific period of time when the company increases the monthly rates before the promotional period ends

TINA.org Reports Online Retailer FabKids to Regulators; Investigation Reveals Deceptive Marketing of Negative-Option Offer

MADISON, CONN. August 30, 2021 – With ads for a blockbuster “2 pairs from $9.95” sale on kids shoes, online footwear and clothing retailer FabKids knows how to lure in…

FabKids’ Back-to-School Ads Mislead Parents

Online retailer deceptively advertises members-only prices, TINA.org investigation finds.

FYE’s Free VIP Memberships and Magazine Subscriptions

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose material terms of subscriptions

Agora’s ‘Coronavirus Vaccine Survival Guide’

Guide has some surprising health advice based on its anti-Big Pharma marketing.

TINA.org Refers Publisher Agora to FTC for Enforcement Action; Investigation Reveals Deception & Dark Patterns

MADISON, CONN. June 21, 2021 – Despite a $2 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in February 2021, publishing giant Monument & Cathedral Holdings, better known as Agora, and…

Agora Still Using Deception and Dark Patterns to Ensnare Seniors

TINA.org refers publishing giant to FTC for enforcement action.

Agora Income Claims — 2021 Collection

Agora Disease-Treatment Claims — 2021 Collection

Federal officials look to crack down on deceptive subscription marketing practices at broad range of firms

Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post

The Kids Guide to Fighting Socialism

“Free” guide harbors future charges that aren’t disclosed in a frightening email to parents and grandparents.

Conde Nast Entertainment

Allegations: Failing to disclose that consumers who sign up for magazine subscriptions will be enrolled in automatic renewal subscriptions