Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help

Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by kosmogo on Friday February 08, 2013 @06:46AM (#5187347)

I would have hoped when i got my kindle stolen to have a way to declare it stolen at amazon and block it maybe ? after all it's paid with my account and my credit card, it's quite easy to find out.

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Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by delinka on Friday February 08, 2013 @08:04AM (#5187613)

And when you sell the device but then later attempt to extort the new owner by reporting it stolen?

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Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by illuminate on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:12AM (#5187914)

How is that "extortion"?

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Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by delinka on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:31PM (#5195170)

"That's a nice e-reader you have there ... it'd be a shame if someone reported it stolen and it stopped working. Maybe you should send me another fifty bucks."

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Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by illuminate on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:25PM (#5195296)

Ah, well, ownership should be reliably transferable. This crap happens with cellphones (I had it happen to me with an eBayed Galaxy S3 last week...)

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Re:Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help by megablast on Friday February 08, 2013 @08:06AM (#5187623)

The problem is that you can legally sell a kindle.

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