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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yeah, that $20 ad removal just gets to me. It's because they explain that they are saving the end user money, but much smaller competitors are able to make devices of equal or better quality and sell them ad free for the same or less as the 'ad supported' Kindles*
I was given a Kindle and was still going to try to squeaky wheel my way into getting the ads removed for free. Luckily, it remained ad-free, which is how I discovered it is device specific (which is weird really).
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Yes, I was puzzled that an old Kindle (maybe 3 years old), deregistered and passed to me had adverts.
Here even a contract phone, subsidised far more than the kindle (being generous to Amazon) must be unlocked from network for free after a year.
The advert-free surcharge is a scam and it's abusive that it lasts "forever". But logical that it's device specific. Amazon doesn't care who uses it.