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Originally Posted by issybird
Oh, how about Amazon issuing a warning to abusers? Blocking all returns from accounts with a lot of churn? Closing accounts altogether? In short, the solutions they already have and use.
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Those are good things. But none of us know the triggers of any of these things.
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Ah. And yet Amazon explicitly disallows this...
Some more of that personal morality, but you’re unwilling to let others abide by the rules when you deem it wrong.
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Yes, yes. Whataboutism can be fun. It doesn't change the fact that reading books and then returning for a refund is a sketchy practice.
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As opposed to dishonest users, who do something licitly and openly?
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Exactly, yes.
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And now we’re back to “ebooks are exactly the same as paper books.” No, they aren’t. I won’t list every reason, but I’ll point out that no costs are involved in either delivering the ebook or accepting the return, nor has the ebook incurred physical costs of production.
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This argument never convinced you, when it was used in one of the 'ebooks should be cheaper' threads. It's not very convincing here either.