Comment Re:Obligatory quote in accordance with social norm (Score 3, Funny) 557
Ah, I see you've played "knifey-spooney" before...
Ah, I see you've played "knifey-spooney" before...
Math gives you a highly addictive mind/mood altering experience? Hmm... We must have tried different Math.
You are. The addictive one is called "Crystal Math."
The original owner of the camcorder finds he has been burgled, he informs the relevant authority and finds that a warehouse company has sold it, in good faith, to a customer, not knowing that it was stolen goods. The warehouse attempts to retrieve the camcorder back.
How is that analogy for you?
Amazon may have been d!cks in how they did it without prior notice etc but I don't totally disagree with what they had to do
Then they can bloody well ask me for it back! Heck, I'll probably give it right back to them with a proper explanation.
But what they most emphatically can not do is break into my house in the middle of the night and steal it back, even if they are kind enough to leave an envelope containing a check for the purchase price on my living room table.
But there is one reason why they could have included this that's not evil - so they can give refunds if you click the wrong book. (Which they do.)
Fine, then. Update the Kindle firmware so that, when a deletion/refund is requested, pop up a message saying, "Amazon wants to delete the title "The Wrong Book" from your Kindle, and issue you a full refund. [Delete and Refund Money] [Do Not Delete]."
Until Amazon does this, and confirms that there is absolutely no back door to secretly delete purchased books, I will never buy one, and will actively discourage others from doing so. (Three Kindles un-sold so far, Amazon. This apology just doesn't cut it.)
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Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.