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Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:39:17 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

amazon killed my account the other day because i tried to buy a gift card for my friend while i was traveling abroad. it was legitimate. they refused to reopen the account and suggested i make a new one.

i bought a $500 prepaid amazon gift card for cash and made a new account with a new email.

guess which account also got suspended today.

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Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:41:39 +0200

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

jackyan@mastodon.social

@sneak They killed my associates’ account even though it had money in it. Made up some BS excuse saying I had let someone else access it (untrue). They suggested I open another one—yeah right. I think Amazon is a scam, a way of keeping commissions you earn.

I’ve yet to see any of the commissions earned through Book Depository, which they own. Claims to have not had any sales—even though I put some through myself.

US Big Tech is a big con job.

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:11:31 +0200

DoeNietZoMoeilijk 🥔

doenietzomoeilijk@mastodon.nl

@sneak Friends don't let friends use Amazon. Getting an account locked and told off by support when there's no real reason it should be closed, should've been a trigger to stop giving them your money.

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:22:13 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@doenietzomoeilijk thanks for this helpful reply, it just so happens i love going to the supermarket in person to buy soap during a pandemic, i will change my ways immediately

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:41:01 +0200

berkes 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

berkes@bitcoinhackers.org

@sneak @doenietzomoeilijk are there no other online businesses that sell soap? Has Amazon successfully created it's monopoly already?

In the Netherlands there are numerous small and large ecommerce and deliveries that sell and send to your front door and are not Amazon. Not sure if that is unique though.

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:46:26 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@berkes @doenietzomoeilijk being european, you have no experience with how good home field amazon actually is. they do same day or very early next day delivery on a range of items larger than all of the european amazon stores combined. the ux of amazon.com vs amazon.{everythignelse} is basically incomparable

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:48:33 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@berkes @doenietzomoeilijk soap was just the example, the reason i'm on there is for the million other items that are available with free shipping and one click. it's the everything store and most of everything will arrive tomorrow. there is absolutely nothing comparable to it here or there and it's not a matter of monopoly, it's a matter of scale/size/reach. (not saying they didn't use anticompetitive practices to get to this point, but they are now here)

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:49:05 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@berkes @doenietzomoeilijk and i refuse to handicap myself in the name of activism, that's a way to become slow and useless.

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 14:06:12 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@berkes 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱 @DoeNietZoMoeilijk 🥔 @sneak If you, on one hand, complain about #OsmAnd keeping track of map downloads and claim they're spyware for that, I really don't understand how you can be OK with using Amazon. Other than spying on its customers, it does a lot more harm to the world.

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:34:02 +0200

Surfin

surfingalot@mastodon.social

@sneak It's the VPN connection fraud scoring making the system making them click the bonk button.

Have you tried amazon for business? Might not bonk as hard because business ordering looks like VPN ordering too.

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:41:00 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@hans @berkes @doenietzomoeilijk amazon knows only what i tell them about me

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:12:36 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@sneak Yeah, and I'm the one who doesn't understand tracking... Sure.

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:12:02 +0200

sneak

sneak@s.sneak.berlin

@hans you are unfamiliar with my network or browser configuration