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Creepy Amazon Things

Rival

Rival

se Dex me saut.
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I found this on Amazon when I was looking for teddy bears. Look at that smile. LOOK AT IT.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...&pf_rd_p=e632fea2-678f-4848-9a97-bcecda59cb4e

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Post creepy (family friendly) stuff you've found on Amazon!

(Yeah the dude's face too....)
 
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ecco

ecco

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The tyrant king leech may only be three inches long, but it's plenty terrifying. It uses its huge teeth to saw into flesh to create holes for it to feed. Worse yet, it seems to intentionally aim for mammals' orifices, including the eyes, genitalia, and rectum.

Once inside its prey's body, the leech can survive and feed for weeks.​

Found in the Amazon rain forest. Were you discussing a different Amazon?
 
exchemist

exchemist

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Tell you what IS creepy about Amazon.

Every time I try to buy something from them, they say they want to give me a "free trial" of Amazon Prime. They try so hard to do this that these days I have to read the small print really carefully, before I confirm payment, to make damned sure I am NOT accidentally signing up to Prime. And they keep altering the way they present this sodding "free trial", too. On the latest thing I tried to order, I carefully de-selected the Prime option, only to be told, at the confirm stage, that I was nonetheless being given a free trial of the bloody thing. So I cancelled the transaction.

I know what their game is: they hope I'll accidentally select it, will forget to cancel it (which they make as hard as possible to do, naturally) and won't notice them siphoning £7.99 per month out of my bank account ad infinitum, for doing F-all.

I barely use Amazon, and this chicanery makes me even more determined to use them as little as possible.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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exchemist said:
I know what their game is: they hope I'll accidentally select it, will forget to cancel it (which they make as hard as possible to do, naturally) and won't notice them siphoning £7.99 per month out of my bank account ad infinitum, for doing F-all.
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That's basically the plan for a lot of businesses, lol.
 
exchemist

exchemist

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Shadow Wolf said:
That's basically the plan for a lot of businesses, lol.
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But not major international brands, as a rule. This is the sort of shady, sneaky thing one of those dodgy little companies that goes bust after a year will do. How can it make sense for the business model of a brand like Amazon to include practising this sort of attempted trickery on its own customers? If they want to make it an all-subscription business, that's fine: I won't use them. If they want to offer a subscription option, that's also fine. But to try repeatedly to trick you into taking out a subscription by accident is not far short of criminal behaviour.

In England there is a law (1974 Consumer Credit Act) that prohibits "inertia selling", which means supplying unrequested goods or services and then charging for them if the customer does not take action to return them. What Amazon is doing comes as close as it can to this activity, without quite crossing the line.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
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exchemist said:
Tell you what IS creepy about Amazon.

Every time I try to buy something from them, they say they want to give me a "free trial" of Amazon Prime. They try so hard to do this that these days I have to read the small print really carefully, before I confirm payment, to make damned sure I am NOT accidentally signing up to Prime. And they keep altering the way they present this sodding "free trial", too. On the latest thing I tried to order, I carefully de-selected the Prime option, only to be told, at the confirm stage, that I was nonetheless being given a free trial of the bloody thing. So I cancelled the transaction.

I know what their game is: they hope I'll accidentally select it, will forget to cancel it (which they make as hard as possible to do, naturally) and won't notice them siphoning £7.99 per month out of my bank account ad infinitum, for doing F-all.

I barely use Amazon, and this chicanery makes me even more determined to use them as little as possible.
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i use both Amazon UK and Amazon France, both are different, both change regularly, but both have the opt out text in light grey on white making it almost impossible to see.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
exchemist said:
How can it make sense for the business model of a brand like Amazon to include practising this sort of attempted trickery on its own customers?
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Lots of subscription services do it. Gyms love it. They lure people in with free trials and introductory offers, most people will forget, move on, and the company gets money for nothing while the costumer pays for something they don't use. That's even better than people trying the free sample and becoming regular users of what they pay for.
And they do it because people will pay and they can get away with it. It's predatory, but no laws are broken. And they know they can because people regularly agree to far worse conditions (if I understand EULA and TOS's right, they are especially problematic in America, who lacks some of the regulation into them that Europe has).
 
ecco

ecco

Veteran Member
exchemist said:
This is the sort of shady, sneaky thing one of those dodgy little companies that goes bust after a year will do.
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I buy from Amazon (USA) occasionally. I usually find the same products on other websites for less. When I do buy from Amazon, I don't need to opt-out of a Prime Trial. I just select the shipping option I want.

Several years ago, I took a free month Prime and had no issues canceling it.

Maybe it's different for you folks "over there".


As an aside, I read about a UKer who gets about 25 mps download speed. Is that typical? I get about 85 over here.
 
Rival

Rival

se Dex me saut.
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Premium Member
ecco said:
I buy from Amazon (USA) occasionally. I usually find the same products on other websites for less. When I do buy from Amazon, I don't need to opt-out of a Prime Trial. I just select the shipping option I want.

Several years ago, I took a free month Prime and had no issues canceling it.

Maybe it's different for you folks "over there".


As an aside, I read about a UKer who gets about 25 mps download speed. Is that typical? I get about 85 over here.
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British internet is notoriously bad.
 
exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
ecco said:
I buy from Amazon (USA) occasionally. I usually find the same products on other websites for less. When I do buy from Amazon, I don't need to opt-out of a Prime Trial. I just select the shipping option I want.

Several years ago, I took a free month Prime and had no issues canceling it.

Maybe it's different for you folks "over there".


As an aside, I read about a UKer who gets about 25 mps download speed. Is that typical? I get about 85 over here.
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I don't know. My internet speed seems fine for what I use it for. But I'm in London, not out in the sticks.
 
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