Boycott of Amazon.com

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Boycott Amazon Till They Drop Their Hidden Refund Cap

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Amazon has a hidden refund limit (limit on the number of refunds you can get) which once you reach, they will ban you over (either that or they are cyber-bullying me and they should be boycotted for that too, might as well be both). Account specialists can ban you for no logical reason and without having to reveal their names and to add insult, repeatedly tell you the ban will not be lifted.

Boycott Demands

Please stop shopping at Amazon till they restore the accounts of anyone they have banned from shopping at Amazon for reaching an unrevealed refund ceiling and to remove their hidden refund cap and until the "Account Specialists" who banned people for hitting this cap, and who would not discuss it but state that the ban would not be lifted, are fired and replaced with friendly and reasonable specialists whose full names are stated.

Amazon has made it clear that if you get a certain amount of refunds (regardless of how long you've been shopping with them and how many items you buy from them) that you will be permanently banned without any explanation other than that you've had, "an extraordinary amount of refunds for various reasons" (unless you're using the same reason over and over, which would of course be truly suspicious).

This is not a reasonable policy, and is libelous and if you must go to court to resolve this, it forces you to break your desire for privacy if you have one, and so can also put you in a false light by having to reveal yourself for what is an implication that  you've committed fraud, delusional, petty or all of those.

Recently, Amazon has been trying to get into selling high end clothing. Imagine how many people would be banned for returning clothing for having snags, not fitting, being misdescribed or damaged through normal wear in 30 days. Is that reasonable?

Further, when I was banned, they also terminated my affiliate account, which allows them to still get visitors from the links I made to them (which is many) and which allows them to keep 100% of the profits! Is that fair to do because I hit their refund cap? What does my helping them to get money, have to do with me getting refunds!? And why not, at worst, ban me from getting anymore refunds then terminating my buyer and affiliate account so that they can still make a profit?

And what does right, or rather how does it make sense, for Amazon have to ban a person for their own decisions to refund them, or even those of other sellers? If that's the decision made: that I should get them, why then would I be punished and not the product seller if anyone, not that I think that's necessary in all cases or even the majority. In fact, I reported a bad seller that had nothing to do with me buying from them, in order to get credit from Amazon, and instead of crediting me, the lazy amazon employee, whoever it was, REFUNDED ME FROM A PREVIOUS ORDER! And then amazon, for the second time, pestered me within a month over the refunds I got, and then banned me! Who in their right mind can say this is fair or logical?