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Previously on "Amazon charged me for a Kindle ebook I never bought"
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Had another look, and it seems the book was only actually published yesterday, 2021-02-04 :
Slough House, by Mick Herron
So what may have happened is that I pre-ordered it months ago, accidently ordering the Kindle edition. So it wasn't an Amazon mishap at all. DOH!
I notice there are already 15 "used" hardback copies for sale, some asking more than the new price! Must be some pretty fast readers out there
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostYou don't need a Kindle, it works on a PC and phone.
So using the Kindle browser (Cloud Reader) on my iPad that's older than the kindle.Last edited by Hobosapien; 5 February 2021, 15:19.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostHappens on fire tv occasionally. Make sure you set a pin for purchases on each device. They don't have a global setting.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'm normally pretty slack about checking my online bank statements, and God knows how many sneaky small payments have slipped under the radar. But yesterday I happened to notice a £9.99 charge for "Kindle Svcs*MF43Q8" and on checking my Amazon orders found an order for a Kindle ebook. Curiously the book was the same as a physical book I ordered some months ago.
As I don't own a Kindle, nor ever would, and have thus never ordered a Kindle ebook, I contacted an Amazon bod via chat and obtained a refund.
Thought I'd mention it in case there has been a bug or "feature" introduced into Amazon's systems and lots of people have been charged for a Kindle ebook via unsolicited orders!
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostHmm, no I didn't. I wasn't aware they would somehow know which device I had used, because I don't recall ever providing this info on their website (although of course they could always obtain a hardware signature of some kind).
I wondered if there was some tick box on the original physical book order page to say "Automatically order future editions or next in series of this when released", which I hadn't noticed was ticked by default. I wouldn't put a trick like that past the money-grubbing feckers.
But then the book was only a novel (one of Nick Herron's excellent Slough House espionage series but I digress), rather than say a textbook on quantum computing or something for which new editions would be likely.
It might be interesting to ask for all information they had on the order just to see.
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post.. Did you ask Amazon to confirm which device had been used for the order purchase because they should know, and exactly what time?
I wondered if there was some tick box on the original physical book order page to say "Automatically order future editions or next in series of this when released", which I hadn't noticed was ticked by default. I wouldn't put a trick like that past the money-grubbing feckers.
But then the book was only a novel (one of Mick Herron's excellent Slough House espionage series but I digress), rather than say a textbook on quantum computing or something for which new editions would be likely.Last edited by OwlHoot; 5 February 2021, 13:54.
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Curious it's something you did own physically. Did you ask Amazon to confirm which device had been used for the order purchase because they should know, and exactly what time?
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'm normally pretty slack about checking my online bank statements, and God knows how many sneaky small payments have slipped under the radar. But yesterday I happened to notice a £9.99 charge for "Kindle Svcs*MF43Q8" and on checking my Amazon orders found an order for a Kindle ebook. Curiously the book was the same as a physical book I ordered some months ago.
As I don't own a Kindle, nor ever would, and have thus never ordered a Kindle ebook, I contacted an Amazon bod via chat and obtained a refund.
Thought I'd mention it in case there has been a bug or "feature" introduced into Amazon's systems and lots of people have been charged for a Kindle ebook via unsolicited orders!
Happens on fire tv occasionally. Make sure you set a pin for purchases on each device. They don't have a global setting.
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Amazon charged me for a Kindle ebook I never bought
I'm normally pretty slack about checking my online bank statements, and God knows how many sneaky small payments have slipped under the radar. But yesterday I happened to notice a £9.99 charge for "Kindle Svcs*MF43Q8" and on checking my Amazon orders found an order for a Kindle ebook. Curiously the book was the same as a physical book I ordered some months ago.
As I don't own a Kindle, nor ever would, and have thus never ordered a Kindle ebook, I contacted an Amazon bod via chat and obtained a refund.
Thought I'd mention it in case there has been a bug or "feature" introduced into Amazon's systems and lots of people have been charged for a Kindle ebook via unsolicited orders!Tags: None
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