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We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video.

In an effort to compensate you for the inconvenience, we have applied a £5.99 Amazon Gift Card to your account. The Gift Card amount is equal to the amount you paid for the Prime Video purchase(s). To apologize for the inconvenience, we've also added an Amazon Gift Certificate of £5 to your account. Your Gift Card balance will be automatically applied to your next eligible order. You can view your balance and usage history in Your Account here:

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Mofos

Return me ALL my money for that, fuck your girftcard coupon shit! That is the least you can do and still doesn't change the fact that I can't buy to own anything there, so why the fuck would I?

Jellyfin and torrents for the win!

[–] brax 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gift cards and store credit are such a kick to the balls. Unless they let you buy shit AT COST then they're literally not out anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they're probably taking some sort of loss.

[–] brax 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Admittedly, I missed the second £5. That said, don't you need to pay for a Prime subscription to get access to this service in the first place? They're gonna get that money back pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The house always wins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's store credit in principle it costs them nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

[–] cantstopthesignal 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I buy DVDs for this reason now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dvds won't last years either unless you copy them over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nevermind the fact that the standard definition playback looks like a smeared turd when you play it on a modern high resolution display. I'll stick to ripping Blu-ray.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think when someone casually says DVD they're including Blu-ray, like if you say Kleenex, you might be talking about Puffs or Scott or something else...

[–] cantstopthesignal 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, DVDs are like $3-5. I don't care about resolution. I watch old shitty movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

jellyfin+cloudstream for when I don't have the mood to click a couple buttons on radarr/sonarr is the perfect solution

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS 1 points 1 year ago

They generally credit the original payment method. It could be likely that he paid for the movie using an Amazon giftcard balance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're saying you can't buy to own anything... at Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.