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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by JonLim on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:23PM (#3271024)
I'm inclined to agree.

My own anecdotal experiences with Amazon customer service aside, something feels amiss about this whole situation. Why did they not call/email Amazon after a full 24 hours had gone by? Why are they disputing Amazon charges to their credit cards?

I just feel like something is wrong here.

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by cjdavis on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:52PM (#3271446)
The letter clearly states he has contacted every Amazon support option he knows of:

  I have filed a complaint with the BBB, emailed everyone I
  could at Amazon, called the Customer Service Line, the
  Kindle "Executive" support line, and Corporate. I have 
  been apologized to by everyone I have spoken to and been 
  told that they have never seen this situation before.
 
  None of them can tell me if I will ever receive the 
  content I have paid for.
Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by JonLim on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:10PM (#3271982)
Fair enough, didn't read carefully enough. Hope it gets resolved soon.
Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by cultureulterior on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:29PM (#3271059)
What? You always call websites whenever you can't log into them? You don't allow for downtime at all?

They are disputing the charges because amazon stole their content!

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by JonLim on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:35PM (#3271085)
No, I call websites whenever my content that I paid for is broken or inaccessible. Not to mention they already did it once, and were told to wait 24 hours, but instead they waited a month?

I understand why they're disputing charges, but that seems silly if they haven't made some concerted effort to figure out what's going on.

At least that's my take on it.

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by pyre on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:49PM (#3271163)
I think that it's silly to blame the user because they waited a month. You have no idea what was going on in that person's life to cause them to wait that long. You also don't know that person's personality. Maybe they are a major procrastinator. Maybe they are phone phobic.

To say that the person was obviously in the wrong/doing something shady/to blame just because of how long they waited seems like you're really stretching to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt.

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by JonLim on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:44PM (#3271419)
Didn't say they were obviously wrong, just that something feels missing.

However, not sure how it's silly to blame a user if they waited a month. Personal issue? Fine. But procrastinator and phone phobic aren't really excuses for this. If you're really concerned about your Kindle (I would be VERY concerned if it were more than a day.) then I would do almost anything in my power to fix it.

Wait a month? But that's a whole month of me not reading my books!

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by stefs on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:29PM (#3272052)
this whole thread is ridiculous, because he clearly stated that he did contact amazon several times, with no result besides "sorry, we don't know/can't say what's going on either"