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I also agreed. Our Kindle Direct Publishing account was banned at a random point for a questionable reason. They didn’t pay out the last month.
Time for small claims court?
Go to real court and take depositions.
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
I can't wait for some regulation that forces these megacorps to explain why they decided to ban you.
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I don't know about the international market but at least in my country, all companies abandoned PPC around 15 years ago. One reason was that you could pay Google AdSense $0.01 per click while being paid $0.1 per click yourself. It was a money printing machine while the company got worthless traffic that wouldn't generate any sales.
I don't understand, who's "yourself" here? If I'm paying $0.01 per click and I make $0.1, why wouldn't I want that?
Think OP may be talking about arbitrage and making a "made for adsense" site. Attract clicks via cheap ads, get ads with a higher CPC for a more generic term. Just presuming.
Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#294i'm only left wondering at what level of amazon has this pettiness occurred
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It's in the video. Several hundred dollars per month. Not a lot of money compared to what he makes off his youtube channel, or off his for Macbook repair business with six employees. He's mad that he got banned for an obviously fake reason, not because of the money.
And stupid on Amazon's part, did they think this will make him shut up about Amazon? Or cause more bad publicity
It will deter other people from criticizing them though.
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I unironically have no issue with racists being locked out of their homes. Perhaps with the doorbell robot giving them sarcastic responses to their pleas.
In your opinion, do they have to say a racism or merely think it to be worthy of being locked out of their home?
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#297Summary: 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…
? What is a "racist doorbell claim"?
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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…
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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.
If an American company (sorry if being US-centric), check the manufacturer's website. For example, I needed a replacement lid for a KitchenAid food processor. On Amazon it was being sold for around $14-15. At KitchenAid it was $5 and free shipping. Amazon deleted my review for mentioning this.
Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#300Summary: 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…
>He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and treats customers worse
this is basic monopoly in action, less competition so a business can make more money with a lower quality service because customers don't have other options. Same reason most government services are so bad, they have a natural monopoly