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well, at least they paid you back for it. that's actually quite respectable of them. and if they didn't, it would have been a class action lawsuit, so kind of a moot point all around. You got your money back. I recommend using it to obtain several tiers of backup hard drives and make sure you have two physical copies of every piece of media you feel is not replaceable. Because some day, you won't be able to replace it. the corporate dream is nobody owns anything, you just have to jack into their "stream" and consume whatever they feed you. the funniest thing is, people are already getting a head start on that dystopian future. they're doing it to themselves, by actually paying for shitty streaming services. You really shouldn't do that, as it only emboldens them.
They absolutely didn't get their money back. They got a voucher. They got scrip.
Getting money back would be getting money back.
I agree it's still better than walking away empty handed, but let's not pretend that got their money back.
In the rare case the person has just stopped spending money at Amazon, I guess. For anyone that's spending $10/month, it's effectively the same as cash. (Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)
No, you can't. It acts the same as a gift card. As a matter of fact, that's basically what they called it.
From dealing with their support in the past and stuff they've accommodated, I wouldn't be surprised if you could just ask them to do it for a small amount like that. If you do a web search, you can also find a lot of information and people claiming it's possible to do stuff like transfer it to a Paypal account, etc.
I haven't tried to do that personally, so maybe it really just isn't possible. It's still only something that will affect someone that's never going to spend money at Amazon again, right? If I'm going to spend $5.99 at some point, it's effectively the same as a cash refund for me. If I'm going to spend $10.99 at some point it's almost the same as getting double the refund, since I would have spent cash instead in those cases.
That's $5.99 in their Amazon account.
Yes, but there is no easy way to transfer Amazon money into money outside of Amazon to purchase things outside kr Amazon. So, Amazon "refunding" you with a voucher doesn't really do anything (Amazon is gonna get that money anyways, since you can only use Amazon money in Amazon).
Buy a fucking visa gift card, it's not rocket science.
Better yet, use it to contribute towards a VPN subscription for more long-lasting ways of acquiring content
It’s as good as cash. It’s an IOU
Nope. You are bound to store prices and store products, and specifically applicable products maybe even bound to a time frame.
Gift cards are absolutely less valuable than the same amount in your bank account or in cash.