News came out this week that the FTC might be going after Amazon for misleading subscription and billing behavior’s as well as other things. I did not give it much thought until I received an marketing email about my prime video subscription. Looking at the new streaming options available and included with my prime subscription I noticed the new Flash movie was advertised as “Included”, see the content that was provide to me:

Now as you can see it states that the movie is included. I pay for the subscription so I thought what the hell I will stream it while writing some code. I head over to the prime video website and look for the Flash movie and low and behold it is there, but …. only if I rent the movie. So no its not included and this marketing email is clearly a mistruth.

What are your thoughts? is this deceptive? No where on the marketing email did it state that there was an additional charge.