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Originally Posted by merrymini
Try to avoid amazon as much as possible. Who wants free garbage? If someone is up to no good, I do not want my name or address attached to it. You may not realize something nefarious is happening until damage is done and than you will spend plenty of time fixing it.
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I don’t feel the need to avoid Amazon; I do, however, need to stay on top of what, if anything, is happening on my account. If I were to receive unsolicited items from Amazon, which has never happened to me, I would first find out if anyone I knew could use it, and if not, I would simply donate ot to a club doing a fundraiser.
Not quite the same thing: We once had to cancel an existing Amazon subscription and received acknowledgement of the cancellation. A month later the next ‘installment’ arrives. I call Amazon and am told I will not be charged and that I can use it or dispose of it. I say okay, thank you, thinking that was the end of it. You think? A month later comes the next one, and a month after that once more. It took them three months to get that sorted out—and they never wanted any of it back!
I once had my credit card number stolen and it racked up 11 charges before anyone picked up on it. Usually the credit companies spot these issues, but not this time. Interestingly, it was Amazon who caught it and immediately notified me and I in turn the credit card company. I asked Amazon, dealing with a brazilian sales a day, how they managed to pick up on it. Simple, they said, someone tried to register a new account using the credit card you have in file….