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Originally Posted by Soldim
There I have to admit I am not familiar enough with US law. I know in Europe a corporation would have a hard time arguing it has the right to refuse to do business with a private customer if the customer uses products purchased in an strictly legal manner. Generally that is not an issue, since customer tend to move on. When corporations have large market shares, that gets more tricky and there's some customer protection. In the US law tends to lean a bit more towards corporate interests (to use an understatement), so it could very well be different.
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Amazon close people's accounts, for example, if they believe that they are buying and returning an undue number of items. People who do that aren't breaking the law, but Amazon is saying "we don't want to do any more business with you in the future". Certainly in the UK, any business can do that (eg pubs commonly ban people whom they regard as "trouble makers"). I would hazard a guess that re-selling your Amazon bought books could be classed in a similar kind of way; Amazon certainly have a track record of saying to people "we don't want you as a customer" if they "break the rules".