| "He emailed Amazon to point out the unfairness in closing accounts based on unpublished limits of legitimate returns, but says he received a standard response refusing to reopen his account." Note, that he did nothing wrong, he violated no Amazon rules, violated no laws, and still got fucked by Amazon. This is how Amazon treats its loyal customers. I had about ~$100 of returns when they closed my account after I had been doing $10-20k of business with them for years on a paid Prime account opened in the late 90's. There are a lot of defective products that Amazon sells and the mere nature of online commerce dictates that there will be a lot of returns. To randomly close people's accounts, stealing their products, money, and even AWS computing resources, that's fucking criminal. "How easy it is to set up an alternative account remains to be seen." No, it doesn't. You cannot set up another Amazon account (you can but they will close it) and neither can your family or I assume anyone living at your address, ever agin. In fact, your family's accounts will also be closed if not at the same time, soon thereafter. Just in case Amazon didn't fuck you hard enough, they will also fuck your family over too. If this is how Amazon wants to continue doing business, fine. They can continue to fuck over their customers because they're big enough and we can't do anything about it. It makes Walmart look saintly in their practices. Fuck Amazon. I hope more people realize what's happening and boycott this piece of shit company. And if you have AWS resources, you should really think to yourself if this is the kind of company you want to trust with all your computing resources, a company that will for no reason and without warning close your account and likely kill your company in the process? |