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I actually used the KU promo twice. The second time I signed up (one month after the first promo ended) I just went in and clicked enroll. I had no reason to think it wouldn't work or that I was not eligible. And it did work. That second promo ended for me about 1-1/2 months ago. Now comes this third promo. Even though there was nothing written that excluded previous members, it did say that it was not for existing members. So I decided to chat with Amazon to ask about my eligibility, if for no other reason than to prove my honesty to some members here who are prone to questioning things like that.
Note that in the past, I had tried Amazon's Music Unlimited on a trial basis once. Then after that had expired, I bought a new Echo Dot, and subsequently received a personal email from Amazon inviting me to try Music Unlimited for free again. I went and signed up. And they charged me the full amount. When I called to question them on that, they said, "Oh, you aren't eligible". Then I asked why they sent me a personal invite if I wasn't eligible. I had simply clicked on the link in the email they sent to enroll. They had no answer for that, but continued insinuating that I was trying to cheat them. Finally, they did take the charge off of my account and disabled the Music Unlimited. Along with warning me that this was a "special deal" that they were doing for me as a courtesy. What a load of crap - I was simply responding to an offer that THEY had sent me in email. An offer that seemed perfectly valid and legit, seeing as how I had just bought a new Echo (two, actually). I wrote about this exchange with Amazon in another thread here on the forums somewhere.
After reading about Amazon's banning of accounts in the past, I don't want to get on their "abuser list". Evidently I'm already halfway there already, since I attempted to make use of a personal offer that they sent me. Silly me for believing and trusting them when they sent that email inviting me.
I'm afraid that with Amazon, "testing it to see if it works" might well get you banned. You could be an abuser in their eyes. Even if the link works for you. Amazon is not the company they used to be. Reportedly, with their account banning, they won't even tell you why you were banned. You just were. Tough.
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