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Originally Posted by jhowell
They should be able to understand...
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Emphasis on "should be". Likewise, they "should be" able to understand that me signing up for a new Prime membership free trial one day after canceling my previous paid Prime membership was not fraud, since they are the ones who inexplicably cancelled my Prime account after I reported a defective PaperWhite, and they are the ones who told me to sign up for another trial. They had to make "special accommodations" for me to be able to sign up for that second free trial.
As reported in the other thread, they seem to cancel accounts for behavior with footprints this, using some non-human algorithm that hits the "cancel button" at the first hint of something fishy. Whether justified of not. And they won't even tell you the reason they cancelled the account, other than "you violated some or other term or condition".
Isn't the above potential for problems the jist of what was reported in that other thread I linked? Should Amazon be trusted to do the right thing (especially after what they've done thus far?) Or would I just potentially become one of their statistics of "Well, this doesn't happen to very many people, so we can ignore it. Too bad for you."
As I said before "potential gains vs. potential losses". It's like day trading on the stock market. You set buy points, sell points, and stop-loss points. You look at your potential gains vs. potential losses when setting these critical points. If your potential gain to potential loss ratio is not 4x or greater, you walk away from the trade. That's what I'm doing here. My potential gain is $89 (a new PaperWhite, on sale). My potential loss is in the hundreds. So my potential-gain-to-loss ratio is less than one ... far from the 4x that would allow me take the trade in the stock market. The name of the game is you shoot for big gains, and accept small losses. You might have 8 small losses and 2 big gains in a day of trading, and come out very well in total (that's typical actually). You never shoot for small gains with the potential for big losses. That's how you go broke. Very quickly. Probably the most critical thing in trading is setting a good stop-loss point. A PaperWhite that works most of the time, but locks up sometimes, is my stop-loss point.
It took me a while in this thread to see the big picture. Lots of good info here, and lots of good info in the other thread I linked to - sift through all that info and logically set that all-critical stop-loss point. I realize now that I was trying to set my stop-loss point emotionally - something that never works out well in the end.
None of this absolves Amazon of bad behavior. As I said previously, it is purely a financial decision for me at this point. New information that I glean on Amazon behavior in the future may make me reevaluate my potential gain and potential loss numbers - and as a result I may "take the trade" at some future date.