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Legal action against Amazon

June 27, 2023 — BarryK

In late 2022, I posted that I canceled my Amazon account:

https://bkhome.org/news/202210/have-cancelled-amazon-account.html

I had an awful experience, getting signed up with Prime membership without realizing, and then unable to cancel it. Well, it turns out that I am not the only one experiencing that difficulty with Prime:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/06/amazon-allegedly-tricked-users-into-prime-subscriptions-and-sabotaged-their-attempts-to-cancel/

In my blog post, I mentioned that I purchased books from Book Depository instead. Then Jon informed me that Book Depository had been purchased by Amazon. It still operated independently though, so I bought from them.

Guess what, Amazon has now, April 2023, closed down Book Depository. Doesn't this seem like a familiar scenario?    

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