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well, at least they paid you back for it. that’s actually quite respectable of them. and if they didn’t, it would have been a class action lawsuit, so kind of a moot point all around. You got your money back. I recommend using it to obtain several tiers of backup hard drives and make sure you have two physical copies of every piece of media you feel is not replaceable. Because some day, you won’t be able to replace it. the corporate dream is nobody owns anything, you just have to jack into their “stream” and consume whatever they feed you. the funniest thing is, people are already getting a head start on that dystopian future. they’re doing it to themselves, by actually paying for shitty streaming services. You really shouldn’t do that, as it only emboldens them.
They absolutely didn’t get their money back. They got a voucher. They got scrip.
Getting money back would be getting money back.
I agree it’s still better than walking away empty handed, but let’s not pretend that got their money back.
I agree it’s still better than walking away empty handed, but let’s not pretend that got their money back.
In the rare case the person has just stopped spending money at Amazon, I guess. For anyone that’s spending $10/month, it’s effectively the same as cash. (Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)
(Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)
No, you can’t. It acts the same as a gift card. As a matter of fact, that’s basically what they called it.
Yes, but there is no easy way to transfer Amazon money into money outside of Amazon to purchase things outside kr Amazon. So, Amazon “refunding” you with a voucher doesn’t really do anything (Amazon is gonna get that money anyways, since you can only use Amazon money in Amazon).
god this is so Lemmy Rage bait
I mean yeah, that sucks, but them refunding you is absolutely the right move. I don’t think they did that the last times Amazon removed something from their catalogue.
Edit: I missed this wasn’t a refund, just store credit
I mean you got paid 5 quid to rent a movie. I’d call that a win…
Okay, so go buy a gas station sandwich for that money. You weren’t paid anything, you got “store credit in gift cards”. Which means you paid them for a movie, they took your money, then later they “gave you back” something that doesn’t have any value at all to them - they can “print” store credit anytime they want, and those small amounts won’t matter in the long run.
Fine, but that is how it works pratically everywhere, it is not an Amazon specific thing.
It is extremely rare that even a real store give you back real money if you return something and some time have passed, they usually just give you a coupon of the same value.
The problem here is that Amazon take your item, not that you return something and got a coupon for it instead of real money
actually that seems fair. they gave you an extra 5
if steam refunded all my games i would be so happy
