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You make that sound like a bad thing.
I don't mean the black market part, but if Amazon can afford to make things easier for it's customers that way, good for them.
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It wasn't my intention to make it sound like a "bad" thing. I was just trying to make the point that these situations where people who buy second-hand Kindles--only to find that they have been reported "stolen" or are blacklisted--are not governed by the normal "There's a Right and Wrong Thing to Do Here" guidelines.
People just seem to be too quick to jump on the "You've received stolen property and you have to turn over to the police! OMG!" bandwagon. It's not that simple. The police don't want it because no one has reported it stolen... and if they
have reported it stolen, the only entity (Amazon) who could put the police in contact with rightful owner of the Kindle (through serial numbers and registration details) has chosen not to participate in any such investigation (nor do they want the device returned to them). Probably because giving personal customer information to the police would be frowned on by a paranoid (and rightfully so) public. Can't (shouldn't) risk the bad PR.
So my interpretation is not that the OP chose the
easiest or
quickest solution, but rather he chose the ONLY solution left to him. He even took extra steps and left the seller negative feedback. Sleep easy, OP... some of us have your back!