Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
by detaro on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:08PM
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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
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I guess it has to be quite excessive (e.g. ordering tens of things every day).
Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
by detaro on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:27PM
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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)
Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
by chrisper on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:44PM
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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.
Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
by weaksauce on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:30PM
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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.