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Amazon's current solution also includes shutting down your account, even if it's prime, and telling you to fuck off because you returned too many of its fake or garbage products.

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It’s their loss. Eventually the momentum will build up and Amazon will loose a big chunk of their customers, and these door slammed customers will never go back no matter what Amazon will be trying to do. It seems to me Amazon is on its path to self destruction and will rip of a lot of their customers on the way, because it still so large and the numbers are still good to them. That is bound to change sooner or later. I personally avoid them at all costs.

So what happens when you've basically stored your digital life on Amazon's accounts, many times with purchases from their own site?

I've got tons of music - mp3 songs and albums, hundreds of both purchased Kindle books and uploaded personal ones, Audible audio books, years worth of pictures that was part of some hardware deal, etc?

Its even worse than the problem of Google just shutting down your account since most of these victims weren't paying for anything.

“Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”

I think the kindle books are still available if you login at the right url. They were for a bit, long enough for me to download them. It's difficult though. You're just fucked. I have like four kindles though and they work fine without an Amazon account. Never even need to turn the wifi on. Getting books on there with a USB cable is slightly annoying but not really. I don't know about any other product. I recommend avoiding all drm content for this reason. Luckily kindle books can have their drm easily removed. Not that I'd ever do that cause it's illegal. Lol.

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