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With all due respect to Louis - he always sounds angry.
Didn't get that vibe at all. He seems to be very direct and to the point.
He's just got a lot of energy.
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Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
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I sense that some of this trigger happy approach is coming from other consumer protection laws triggered by the society (through popularity hungry polititians) demanding action from someone and anyone when one or some adverse parties use technology and services with harmful intent. Not all of course, companies with too much power act hostile just for the sake of it (means random management bullshit from power obsesse…
Apart from just hoping the companies come around , what do you suggest then? Or are we perhaps just screwed and have to walk on eggshells when we are on the internet?
We should not expect that some mistical fater figure or "they" will solve everything for us. Yes, we need to use the internet as there were hostile elements out there and without blind trust and blind fury that someone is not acting on our behalf all the time.
Some regulation is necessary for most serious or common matters but regulations are not a magic wand that will solve all of our problems without effort from the individual!
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Maybe he considers his subscribers as family :^) Man, I’m really happy I have cancelled my prime and have non-amazon options for online shopping.
May I ask for your alternatives? It could be useful for me too.
I cancelled Prime and got Walmart+. They have all the same cheap crap Amazon does plus grocery delivery.
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That would create exactly the obvious patterns I mentioned. Low conversion ratio and many repeat customers. With new customers I mean customers who have not bought before.
There are very few new customers for Amazon. Everyone has an account. The affiliate program is trying to drive increased purchases.
My initial post (maybe you did not see it) was about why other retailers don't make compelling affiliate programs.
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#285Sorry, I guess I am nieve. But what is a racist door bell?
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Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#286Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
The power of any of these large platforms (and how they apply their "policies") is bewildering. I once listed some GPUs for sale on Amazon. Out of nowhere, without warning, they closed every account I had across Amazon platforms (including AWS). That was fun. Many people have reported the same thing with Google. Just this week a woman tweeted about a Lyft ride that went sideways. Of course some skepticism is warrante…
Your friend probably made the driver feel unsafe; drivers are quite vulnerable to physical violence. Hard to defend yourself from attacks from behind you, driving or not.
Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#287Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
Amazon must be hiring all those displaced reddit mods.
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yes that's why I phrased it as "given themselves the right". they don't need to put that in their content policy
mysterydip’s point is that you gave google the right to do that to your document.
Can you disagree with that and still use the product? So tell me how they didn't give themselves the power? If there was a true choice, then yes, the customer decided to give them that power.
You could argue that you could have not used the product in the first place, but for me (not the person you're replying to), the TOS was very different in 2006. I cannot simply just move to a different service. There was no true choice.
Further, if it is a corporate account, the user needs to make a living thus must choose to use the product or tell their employer they need to quit. There is no true choice.
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> He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and treats customers worse. He's right. I have recent first-hand experience of them deleting reviews of counterfeit products. The emails say: "We investigated your concerns about product authenticity, and the information we have indicates that the product you received was authentic." I've tried posting a review a further 4 times, each time only me…
Oof. That is hilarious and maddening. It’s a disturbing trend on any site we rely on or use for services. There is no recourse, once a decision has been made. Last week, I was banned from Facebook Marketplace because… I don’t actually know. I’m cleaning out an old shed and want to sell a bunch of stuff. So, I logged into Facebook for the first time in 2 years, posted a Shop Vac for sale for $50 USD, and an hour later…
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#290And that's why I don't leave reviews on Amazon, or pretty much any site these days. I have purchased (okay, indefinitely rented) too much media on Amazon, eBooks, videos, etc., and I don't want to lose them because of a non-five-star review.
I stopped with reviews a long time ago, but not for fear of cancellation, but rather - they seem to have a habit of removing honest reviews, and it just wasn't worth the time to leave them just to have them removed.