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Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
Mike writes "If you buy a Kindle and some Kindle ebooks from Amazon, be careful of returning items. Amazon decided that one person had returned too many things, so they suspended his Amazon account, which meant that he could no longer buy any Kindle books, and any Kindle subscriptions he's paid for stop working. After some phone calls, Amazon granted him a one-time exception and reactivated his account again." Take this with as much salt as you'd like.
More like Annoying-le.
Amazon gets their name of the front page yet again. What is this place? Amazon/Twitter/Microsoft/Apple Dot? Why is this here if the story sounds so fishy? I mean I know why, but I see plenty of submissions that are much more newsworthy, but they aren't selling anything and offer no fiscal return. The old adage of, "No such as thing as bad publicity" certainly holds true. Just make sure to spell the name right... Why not rename "submissions" to "Place your ad here"?
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This is a bit off-topic, but given the discussion about the Kindle, I thought it close enough.
The Google ad that was served to me was for...you guessed it! The Amazon Kindle.
I always think it's interesting how Google can pick up on key words and serve a proper ad, but it can't pick up that those key words are associated with other negative words. Is someone visiting a website about '$Product sucks' really interested in seeing an ad for $Product?
Do you suppose they could exclude such sites, but don't want to because of the loss of revenue it might be associated with? I wonder how much advertising revenue is generated by ads served to people who are expressly against a given product?