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As a long time seller on Amazon, I recently had a situation where the buyer decided to file an A-to-Z claim against me. Amazon "ruled" in favor of the buyer, taking my proceeds from the sale and refunding them to the buyer. Hey, I'm all about customer satisfaction. There's nothing worse than making a purchase on eBay or Amazon only to be disappointed. However, I had a USPS delivery confirmation that the book arrived to the buyer AND the buyer did not ship the book back to me. So I'm the big loser all the way around. Amazon wouldn't even answer my emails until I went to the Better Business Bureau! Then, when they do answer, it's the same re-regurgitation that they do not recognize delivery confirmation as proof of delivery. What?! I guess Amazon is smarter than the post office - what a joke.

Looking up for people's profiles on the net on http://www.yasni.de/ (german) amongst profiles in social networks appears my Amazon wishlist.
As this is my private list, not my favourite list which I agreed to publish, I would like to mark it as private, available only for me as registered and logged in customer.

I purchased a textbook on Amazon.com for my current semester. The book is titled "Cost Accounting 13th Edition". I purchased the book from Amazon.com as the page listed it was new and came WITH MyAccountingLab.

Once the book Arrives it isn't shrinkwrapped with MyAccountingLab there no was the access code ANYWHERE in the box!

A call to Amazon and they refuse to replace the book for me unless I return the book. Even though I informed them that this book was essential for my semester which was already in session.

So far, I've had to purchase this book a second time hoping it has MyAccountingLab AND they credit me back as they claim they will.

If you are a college student I recommend you just buy the text from your local bookstore. Amazon isn't worth the extra hassle.

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It all began when I placed an order for 5 Redi Shades - I had just moved and needed something to cover the windows and provide a little privacy.

The first hint of trouble was when I noticed that each shade was being shipped separately. They arrived, each in its own 3 ft long, triangular box. No packing material around the shade, just air. So 3 of the 5 were damaged, because the box was long and light and easily bent. If they had packed all 5 in one box with a stiffener, there would have been no problem.

Now, Amazon customer support has been outsourced to India. If you've ever tried to have a conversation with one of these reps, you know how frustrating it can be. (I once managed an IT outsourcing project to an Indian supplier for a Fortune 500 company so I have prior experience!).

Replacements were sent (on three SEPARATE order numbers, just for fun), packaged exactly the same way of course, and one of these was damaged as well.

Return labels were promised and not sent. Shipping was not credited as promised. One of the returns was not processed. On and on, all with those wonderful customer service platitudes being read off some cue card in a singsong Indian accent. Having to explain things over and over, and basically train the rep on how to solve the problem, is not what I signed up for...

I estimate it will take, let's see, 2 more phone calls - about an hour on the phone, 9 emails and 21 more days to resolve this problem.

We'll see how close I come to that.

Amazon, it's costing you money to operate like this. Each shade was less than $10.

Amazon.com is DOWN - the site is not loading. When I try to visit either "http://www.amazon.com" or "http://amazon.com", I get this error message: "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". What's going on? When will service be restored? This happened on Friday as well -- why is there a pattern of downtime emerging?