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Old 01-08-2011, 09:32 PM   #106
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My wife also purchased a book by accident. She went to Amazon.com and requested a call back from customer support. It wasn't 10 seconds from when she clicked the "phone" button that her phone rang. Less than five minutes later the accidental purchase was refunded.

We love our Kindles and we love Amazon customer service!
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Old 01-08-2011, 11:03 PM   #107
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it is quite easy to accidentally purchase a book on the kindle, but three times?
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Old 01-08-2011, 11:16 PM   #108
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it is quite easy to accidentally purchase a book on the kindle, but three times?
If you don't know what you are doing then yes. I know my Mom bought two books accidentally when she got hers.
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Old 01-08-2011, 11:23 PM   #109
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Diphenhydramine - that is in Advil PM? We are not allowed Advil PM in Australia without a script, and I think they also use a slightly different derivative of it. But I have found this product to be brilliant when I found it on a recent trip to the USA
Yep, it's in Advil PM and it is the generic name for Benedryl. It's an antihistamine.
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Old 01-08-2011, 11:27 PM   #110
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Yep, it's in Advil PM and it is the generic name for Benedryl. It's an antihistamine.
Ah, benadryl, I know that one! I did manage to get some in when buying from Amazon and then shipped on to me. So am good for now.
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You have good reason to suspect this (and I did as well), however in this case it is not so. The Kindle is not like a Playstation 3 (sold at 12% under cost) or other devices where revenue comes from content and licensing. The Kindle is sold at 48% profit, and Amazon makes practically nothing on ebooks. For a while Amazon was even taking a loss on ebooks, charging less than what they paid to the publisher, in order to keep prices from harming Kindle sales. Not sure if this has changed.
Do you have a cite for that? It's inconsistent with *everything* else I've read on this.

Amazon did take a loss on the $9.99 NY Times bestsellers, but everyone seemed to believe that they made it up on the other books that they sold (and of course Amazon, unlike B&Ms, makes most of it's book profit on non-bestsellers).
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