[Mgs] Amazon scam me thinks?

Dan DiBiase dan.dibiase at gmail.com
Fri May 29 13:50:38 MDT 2020


Call them. Or live chat.

Dan D
Central NJ USA
http://dandibiase.cbintouch.com/


On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:03 PM Barrie Robinson <barrob at bell.net> wrote:

> Hello Dan,
>
> The service seems fine *if you buy stuff from them!*  But try and cancel
> the monthly fee if you do not use them !!!!!   You can easily cancel at the
> beginning but once you are a 'member' then cancellation is virtually
> impossible and getting words to any Amazon 'customer service' is not on.
> The fact that there are *several* books written on how to cancel 'Prime'
> is indicative of the difficulty of cancelling.    Just Google 'How do I
> cancel Amazon Prime'.   I did and followed the instructions to the letter
> but it ended up with back to the 'cancel' page
>
> *but would not say "Cancelled" !!!!!!! *It seems that once you are in -
> you can never get out
>
> On 5/29/2020 10:57 AM, Dan DiBiase wrote:
>
> Hmmmmm.... You're saying you tried this and it didn't work?
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201910380
>
> I'm very happy with Prime. We get an educational discount using my
> daughter's .edu email address and watch a lot of stuff on Prime Videos.
>
> Dan D
> '76B, '65B
> Central NJ USA
> http://dandibiase.cbintouch.com/
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:19 AM Barrie Robinson <barrob at bell.net> wrote:
>
>> Ladies & Gentlemen,
>>
>> This is way off subject, for which I apologise,  but I am one of those
>> people who gets up in arms when I encounter a scam by a company that should
>> do better.
>>
>> If you use Amazon you may have taken up their 'Prime' service which you
>> have to pay for.  Neat what?  You have to pay for good service !!!   If it
>> fits your bill then that is fine
>> *but just try and cancel it! *I found we had been charged $7.99 for
>> *years* plus a yearly fee although cannot remember joining.   We rarely
>> use Amazon as "get it now" does not attract us and the last purchase was 6
>> months ago.   So obviously cancellation of Prime was required.  Now we come
>> to Amazon's superbly crafted scam.   * You cannot cancel.*   You end up
>> going round and round their web pages but no how, no where does it allow
>> you to cancel.   What is so blatantly indicative of their dishonesty is
>> that if you do a search on how to cancel Prime you will find a whole raft
>> of books written on it.   *BOOKS ON HOW TO CANCEL* *!!!*
>> UNBELIEVABLE.  And guess what?   The books are sold by Amazon.
>>
>> I just had to blow steam off about this.   I find the only way is to
>> cancel my MasterCard and join up with a different credit card.    The bank
>> bod told me that they can follow me across to a new MasterCard -what ????
>> So it has to be another card.
>>
>> Much mumbling in the background
>> Barrie
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