Ian Fortey
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Have you ever been permanently banned from a business? No, I don't need to hear the specifics, as I assume your justification for stripping naked in the McDonald's ball pit and declaring yourself King Cheeseburger is airtight. I'm just taking a poll, and a surprising number of you probably shamefully whispered "Yes."
Well, this list is to let you know that it could be worse. Unless you're one of the people I'm about to talk about, I guess.
Amazon generated about $177 billion in revenue in 2017. That's $543 for every single person in the United States. And that, in turn, is 194 Taco Bell chalupas for every citizen. Everyone uses Amazon, is what I'm saying, and most of us would be pretty much lost without it ... and shocked to find we'd been locked out of our account for taking advantage of the site's return policy.
One of the big selling points on Amazon is that you can return pretty much anything within 30 days for a refund. If you bought it from a third-party seller, then maybe you need to mail in a quiche with it or something, I don't know. But Amazon itself is littered with mentions of this return policy, and some folks found out the hard way that the company is apparently using it as some kind of bait. Because while a couple of returns will probably not upset your the apple cart, if you make a habit of sending stuff back, Amazon will kick your ass out.
Amazon gives no indication of how many returns it considers too many, but has closed some accounts for returning five or six items in the course of a year, even when there's a clear explanation for each return. This also means that if you have money on gift cards, which can be hundreds or even thousands of dollars, it's useless. What a kick in the giblets.
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