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Originally Posted by Josieb1
At the risk of getting shouted at or banned as user of this forum can I say that yet again most people are missing the point in all this.
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The fact that you believe you *might* be at risk of punitive action from MobileRead, tells me you are getting way too worked up about the whole matter.
And I'm pretty sure there must be a few people here intelligent and/or insightful and/or honest enough to
comprehend your point, even if they then disagree.
But it sure is easy to make yourself out as a victim when you claim everyone else must be missing "the" point.
Which isn't to say that is impossible -- maybe everyone is missing the point. But you'd better have the evidence to back that up.
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I don't give a toss about losing Amazon as a seller. Are they convenient, hell yes, are they worth the risk, No. There other sellers, my Surface 3 came from John Lewis, my work monitor from Currys, my two Kobo's and my Voyage from Argos, my Surface 3 case from Allexpress, my Voyage cases from eBay. I don't buy food, clothes, shoes, make up etc or anything like that from Amazon anyway.
The issue is, and in my case only this. Losing access to my digital content when a) my current devices no longer work, and the closure of my Audible account (which has never been in any problem). I have multiple letters from Amazon confirming that IF my account was ever closed by them I would lose everything. I have that in writing.
It should be simple enough of Amazon to block an account from purchasing, both physical and digital if they wanted, without closing the account, therefore ensuring that new devices purchased from other retailers, and apps could still access previously purchased digital content.
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Perhaps... just a thought... it is
possible there are people who might even say "Amazon should be taking away digital content, immediately and without recourse".
Personally, I don't think so. Just saying, I could understand if someone did think so.
I'm pretty sure it is justified in the ToS, anyway.
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And I still don't understand what
your big deal about it is.
Create a physical-items-only account, and buy whatever you want. The worst they can do to that account is stop you from buying more stuff with it.
And your digital-goods account will be safe, whether you choose to continue purchasing or not.