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154 points

£5.99 refund. Quite clearly not in the US.

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8 points

TBH I would expect stronger consumer protections in the UK…but I definitely don’t know about this type of refund specifically.

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The UK, for all its problems, does typically have some of the best consumer protections in the world. I can see Amazon being forced to overturn this if there’s enough uproar (which there might not be tbf, seeing as they gave extra credit as compo).

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Many countries other than the US are comprised of a federation of states. And also those that aren’t are generally considered nation states or sovereign states, which are still definitively states. The United States of America do not have an exclusive right on statehood.

Plus even though it may be implied that the original replier intended the context to mean the United States of America… it is a valid response with further implication that one should check their local jurisdiction’s laws if they were so inclined to do so.

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A gift card is not a refund.

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I know they probably actually meant the States of the US, but…

They did say states with a lowercase s. ‘States’ = regions within a country, ‘states’ = can mean countries. Technically they aren’t defaulting to the US.

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7 points

£ is from a country that does not have states

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But it IS a state. Sorry if you’re not a native English speaker but just because your vocabulary is lacking doesn’t mean they are wrong.

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2 points

Amazon is from a country that does.

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4 points

country = states != States

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29 points

Like the person you’re replying to said, some people use state and country as synonyms sometimes

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194 points

Sssh… Everyone lives in default country

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46 points

Default country is best country.

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82 points

Take me down to %DEFAULT_CITY where the grass is %DEFAULT_COLOR and the girls are %DESCRIPTIVE_ADJECTIVE

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Religious figure bless default country.

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