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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Sorry Hitch, I hate to be the messenger on this one, but if you have a sellers account with Amazon then you DO get access to a bunch of info on who the buyer is... address, phone number, email, etc.
That info is SUPPOSED to be used strictly for sending the buyer the item they purchased and your seller account can be suspended/cancelled if you abuse that policy. AND the email address is an Amazon address that forwards messages to the buyer's real email so there is some accountability... and the buyer doesn't get spammed.
FWIW...
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Yes, of course, I know that. It's because that seller isn't having AMAZON do the fulfillment,
they are. I mean...how else would you get your stuff?
But as Harry has already said, that doesn't pertain to KBooks, or even new books that are fulfilled by the Zon. Only used books get your info.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Obviously you get the address if you're selling a physical product, because you can't post the item to them without it. You don't get a phone number (at least not on Amazon UK).
None of that applies to ebooks, though.
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Right.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
You definitely get a phone number. Have you tried downloading order reports lately? Not sure about ebooks as I haven't sold any of those. But I would be surprised concerned if the same info was not provided on your order downloads (as ebooks are considered orders, just delivered electronically instead of via the internetz). How else would you get verification of sales...and make sure Amazon is sending you the correct amount of money? I certainly wouldn't trust Amazon to just give me the right amount out of the goodness of their hearts....plus there's all kinds of laws about business records, etc.
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I don't have order reports, as I'm not a publisher/author. Ize just de bookmaker, mon.
And I have to say...if buying books on Amazon entailed my info being given out, that would be the end of my buying books there, regardless of all the considerations. With what I've seen, on the KDP fora, with authors pretty much stalking readers AND reviewers, nooooooooo, thanks. Not for this girl. Ixnay. NO.
I buy a lot of physical products from the 'Zon, and many are not Zon-fulfilled. I am never harassed or spammed by those sellers. I can live with that (although, who knows if they are reselling my info? I suspect that DOES occur). BUT, I've been spammed plenty by authors. From my info at NetGalley, for example. I just had someone reach out to me, to request a review on a book I purportedly downloaded. (The purportedly is another story, but...) Lord, can you IMAGINE what would happen to those of us with hefty reading appetites?
Noooooooooooo, thank you.
Hitch