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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by chrisper on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:00PM (#13045826)
>Treating Amazon like a mail-in library for books, tools, and other products is the easiest way.

Isn't that part of their business? I order stuff to try it out and if it turns out it sucks, I send it back. Isn't that the point of the online store to trump the disadvantage that I cannot try things out without buying them first?

EDIT: It turns out you have to do quite some abuse there and they even send you warning emails. So it won't just happen out of the blue.

EDIT2: What's with the downvotes? Here I was thinking this community is better than Reddit for certain things, but I guess I was wrong.

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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by dpark on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:09PM (#13045874)
Yes, it's part of their business. But if you return 90% of what you order, you are a major cost to them and they have no reason to keep you as a customer.
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by chrisper on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:10PM (#13045877)
I see. I guess this is like the people who "abuse" unlimited online storage.
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by dpark on Saturday November 26, 2016 @10:16PM (#13047493)
I guess. It's no different than brick and mortar stores, though. If you buy $1000 of junk from Best Buy every day and return it a week later, they'll eventually tell you that they will no longer do business with you.
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by detaro on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:08PM (#13045864)
Up until some amount. Once it becomes clear that you're more trouble than profit, they'll cut you off (and if they are unlucky, your neighbors as well). Amazon seems to bit all over the place with that, if media reports are to be believed.
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by chrisper on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:08PM (#13045871)
I guess it has to be quite excessive (e.g. ordering tens of things every day).
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by detaro on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:27PM (#13045965)
Here is an example with ~10% returns, although of course no information what specific pattern (e.g. maybe a lot towards the end, or something like "bought 8 expensive things to compare with the intend of returning 7"). https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amaz...

What's IMHO worse is that they remove Kindle access etc as well (I think here in Germany they've been sucessfully sued for that, so not sure if they still do it)

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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by chrisper on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:44PM (#13046044)
Yes. I also use Amazon Cloud Drive for my external backups. So if they ban me from the store, they would also ban me from accessing my backups.
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Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth by weaksauce on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:30PM (#13046304)
10% is a lot though and another one in the article is ~25%. Typically it should be more like <1%. I am not sure it's a great policy but it's their store. It's also only one side of the story as well so who knows what amazon's side is.
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