Comment by LeonM
7 years ago
Wait... you bought the book and still got ads? That's unacceptable.
Ask for a full refund and never ever buy anything from that company again.
7 years ago
Wait... you bought the book and still got ads? That's unacceptable.
Ask for a full refund and never ever buy anything from that company again.
Yeah, I mean for context this is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/Ngcsa3q
It isn't uncommon for books to promote other books before/after the content, but something about having it in the page movement is so distracting. And it is slow to load in, meanwhile it is just a big white square blocking the book title with an animated spinner.
There isn't any company I would "trust" to provide an uniformly excellent experience so I don't really hold it against Amazon in toto, I still think their ability to do the long tail of retail is excellent. I didn't refund the book because I still borrowed it and read it, and I feel that the author and publisher still deserve their share since they've done nothing wrong.
You can now pay $200/mo for cable and still be forced to watch un-skippable ads for on-demand programming.
You _rent_ cable service. He _bought_ a book. Not the same thing.
Actually he 'rented' the book as well. Some years ago companies all found they could use the TOS against us for digital purchases. His 'purchase' was actually a license to view X content on Y devices Z times.
This enrages me as they charge us money for a virtual good which as soon as we purchase is considered worthless by the selling company. They can ban you- effectively closing your account and blocking your access to your 'purchases', or they can, as discussed here, decide to remove your purchase for 'insert_reason' without making you whole. This incentivizes companies toward hostile consumer attitudes in the name of profit.