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yeah, they think I was somehow defrauding them and have banned me from shopping there. whoops. |
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that's odd |
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how could you defraud? |
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something about using too many of their promotional gift certificates. now I am "no longer welcome" in their store. oh, and by the way "warmest regards from the Amazon team". |
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lol, suckers |
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I would feel sort of bad, but I have been making a lot of purchases there that I wouldn't normally. Without this promotional incentive I have no reason to shop there. Just ordered new Gescom e.p. direct from Skam since Warp have sold out of the CD. And I'm on a promise for Making Orange Things and 237 0894 to replace my scratched copy in the next few days. |
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So do I earn your universal condemnation? |
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" something about using too many of their promotional gift certificates " i don't think ther is a policy against that, is it? any way if you are not doing anything illegal you should start some legal action agains tehm i sure you can make good money starting for the false accusation of fraud |
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where did you get the gift certificats from? Would they work at amazon.co.uk? |
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i was banned from the amazon for stealing monkeys and putting them to work in my sweatshops.... |
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Haha sorry to hear that, but wasn't it you that was telling people a couple of weeks ago that they could get £5 off every purchase at amazon by setting up a new email account for every new order?! (I may be mistaken) |
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That sounds like something I would have said. But as I have a million email addresses anyway I made sure that they all got a gift certificate. Presumably Amazon's intention is that each gift certificate is used to hook a new user who then goes on to make numerous future purchases. However I was making a separate purchase with each certificate. It's not like you can accumulate loads of certificates and get something expensive for free. |
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i guess that is a valid reason to ban you :D |
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meh, probably. I shall take my custom somewhere else. |
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haha that blows man |
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Yeah, I kind of feel guilty, but then offers are always taken advantage of. I like the stories in the paper about supermarkets mispricing stuff or putting on a 3 for 2 offer plus a £1 off, or something which means that they are effectively paying people to take stuff away. Before they realise, everybody in the store has walked away with money in their pocket. |
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banned... forever? oops for you! : / hope you can find another good online store... |
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well there are plenty. I always used warp/skam/boomkat/opal/sisterray/juno, but when this offer came along it made things alot cheaper. I shall just go back to using them. |
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amazon are good? at what? |
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hehe. at least the smaller stores have a more personal touch. I can't count the number of times I asked whether amazon would be stocking a certain CD when it is released, only to get an automated response telling me that "We do not have that CD currently in stock. Please check back later to see if it has become available". |
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i use juno regularly, theyve been excellent for me. usually get it within 48 hours. what are opalmusic like for turnaround time? i've been thinking of using them recently, and i look at their site a lot to check for new stuff |
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Amazon did that themselves recently, advertising a PC at £7. They had to shut the site down. But my g/f was doing what you have been doing. Its not their intention but tough shit. they are a big company and deserve some Robin Hood type shit. Pat yourself on the back matey; you are a friend of the working class. |
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how how does this skam work then? |
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They dish out money-off vouchers like you get on food products. But the idea is you get one and use the offer once. But they way around it is to change your email every time. I'm sure its not illegal; just not what they want. As our friend said, they just want to hook new customers. Its a marketing strategy. |
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Can't you just set another account up on amazon? Or have they banned your I.P Adress from their site? |
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so i have to buy something before i get a voucher then? |
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TonePu5her > if they check the snail mail adresses..... |
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No, they give those vouchers out at webcafes and shit dawg! |
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I didn't get a gift certificate when I signed up (just once). Maybe I did something wrong, and should sign up a few more times...... |
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ok cheers ill look out for one :) |
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Seek and you will find. |
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Some promotional offers come in the paper, on boxes of Pringles, through either websites (I think another.com gave them out when you signed up for an email address a while ago). The referral offer works by you sending them the email address of a 'new' customer, they then send him a voucher. When he signs up and uses the voucher, you also get a voucher. If the new customer is actually you at a different address (who doesn't have more than one email address?), you still have to make a purchase to receive the 'thank you' voucher. Like I said, you don't really get the vouchers for free. Desdemona> you have to go through a certain link to get the voucher. |
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Then use somebody else's adress i.e your parents friends? |
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They have left themselves open a bit I think. If you are a new customer and you visit amazon you get a little pop-up window telling you to sign up and get an introductory voucher. However if you try to use the same credit card as you have used for a previous purchase they will send you a friendly email telling you that you are not entitled to a voucher. If they have the facility to compare credit cards to make sure that all accounts use a unique one (if that is their policy) why not apply it across the board? |
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earthleakage> opal are usually pretty good for turnaround, 2-3 days usually. Not so hot on email correspondance though. I emailed to cancel an order I just made in error (you can't do it online) but didn't hear anything back until it had been posted to me. I sent it back afterwards and they refunded everything except the postage. |
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i tried to buy something with my old and void credit card number once. Amazon were trying to charge me for something i'd ordered, but the account no longer existed. i was getting letters and phone calls from "fraud management" at my bank. they werent happy...oops! |
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d'oh. I'll try to avoid trouble like that hopefully. Nothing is ever in the consumer's favour. I remember when my wages were payed into an old account of mine accidentally. Theoretically it should have bounced back, but my old account number had been recycled to a new customer who now had a month's worth of my salary sitting in their account. That took a while to sort out. |
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