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This is a fun Amazon scam baiting call (basically wasting scammers time and providing education and amusement).
Warning: contains some bad language. Also warning: these things are addictive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mlg1SBqnWM |
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I love watching these bottom-breeding scum-buckets get their (you know what!). This is a new one I haven't seen. I found it especially fun to watch the cartoon video and listen to the humorous back-and-forth banter. ![]() "So that's www.www.www." "I see you are a stupid guy." A BIG THANK YOU! ![]() ![]() Last edited by Dr. Drib; 08-20-2022 at 09:24 AM. |
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If you receive something reportedly from Amazon, and find that the originating IP address is somewhere in Somalia or Haiti, that's a pretty good clue that you're not actually dealing with Amazon. |
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I been permanently banned from commenting, which is no surprise for I am an ass, but i dot know why one would be blocked from your books
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most companys do it the same. in your case it seems they only restricted the account, not banned it. |
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The problem is that parts of the TOS, such as what are too many returns, are secret. They are too big and powerful.
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Amazon believes, with some justification, that you don't buy an ebook or film but only rent it. There was a case some years ago where there was a problem with a book (copyright is the only thing I can think of) and they solved it by removing the book from the device that downloaded it, probably thousands of devices.
I experienced this myself. Years ago I bought the video download of Parade's End and we enjoyed it so much that we watched it almost every year thereafter. This winter I lined up episode one and wound up paying $4.99 for it -- a single episode. I should have put a charge-back on my Visa card, but for $4.99 it didn't seem worth the bother. And I could find no way to complain to Amazon about it. (And there again I was trapped by the "is it worth the effort?".) |
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But if you go to an ebook you bought on their site, it's marked "You own this." They separately rent ebooks.
You don't own the intellectual property, but you have bought the right to read it. That was ironically "1984" and "Animal Farm" in 2009 (published in 1948). Both parables* about authoritarian regimes. Amazon had such a backlash they promised never to do it again. https://www.theregister.com/2009/07/...4_from_kindle/ *Both inspired by his experience of Spanish Civil War and his disillusion with Soviet socialism and being heckled in London. Though 1984 is also about Fascism. It's about THEN, not 1984. I buy CDs, BD, DVDs and remove DRM from ebooks I buy. DRM is evil on something bought rather than rented/loaded. I don't mess with DRM on library book borrows. Last edited by Quoth; 08-22-2022 at 12:08 PM. |
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