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Buy from Amazon and Get Suspended
8 points by FpUser on Feb 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Long story short I needed to buy some software for business from Google for Android. Not sure what exactly I would need I've decided to buy play store gift card from Amazon. Few moments after completing a purchase I received an email that my account is suspended and I would need to click this and do that to get it reinstated. Clicking ended up in never ending circle. So I called them - the guy grilled me for a while and then said that he has to submit all data to higher ups and can do nothing himself and I should wait for email. At this point I was pretty much fuming.

To their credit few hours later email did come telling that account has been reinstated. I did have to enter credit cards again though.

Phew. I went to internets and read about the subject and people say that buying gift card is considered scum / laundering and is ground for account suspension.

Now comes a question - if the above is true then why bother selling those in a first place?



Last time I used amazon (last year I guess), I did not need to enter my credit card details: used only wallet-codes, and could buy my new computer parts, and all that with a noscript/basic (x)html browser (yep, no chrome/safari/firefox/edge/etc).

Heard you can now reload your account with a bar code at a local monetary terminal (where I buy the wallet-codes).

I am a steam user, and I don't buy games with my credit card, I only use wallet-codes.

Hope amazon does not follow the "google/apple javascript browsers only" road.

Conclusion: my credit card details never went on the net (not even on my computer), and I could do online shopping with a noscript/basic (x)html browser.

I wonder how long this near perfect balance won't be upset (if that was not already attacked and destroyed).


That happened to me as well. I ended up having to create a new account. My previous account was from 2002. The only reason I still have an Amazon account is that the closest big stores are a 2 hour drive away.




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