Amazon Handing $309,000,000 To Customers in Settlement Over Alleged Failure To Refund Returned Items
Retail giant Amazon is preparing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to customers in a settlement over the company’s return and refund practices.
The class action lawsuit alleges that customers properly returned items in compliance with Amazon’s policies, but were wrongly denied refunds.
The deal creates a $309 million non-reversionary fund to cover unpaid refunds plus interest for affected buyers.
Plaintiffs say it adds to more than $600 million already issued or soon to be in customers’ hands, for a total of nearly $910 million in direct payments.
Amazon also agreed to reforms valued at over $363 million, including better monitoring of returns, audits of processing errors, automatic refund redundancies, and improved customer s to stop future issues.
The retailer denies any wrongdoing.
“Following an internal review in 2025, we identified a small subset of returns where we issued a refund without the payment completing, or where we could not verify that the correct item had been sent back to us, so no refund had been issued.”
The nationwide lawsuit covers millions of customers who bought and returned US items from September 2017 onward but faced denied refunds or retrocharges, often due to lost-in-transit claims or system glitches.
Notices are expected to be sent by email to Amazon accounts after the settlement is approved in court.
Customers in one group are expected to get automatic payouts, with another group required to submit claims.
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