Life as Crisis Management: Skankizon Does it Again.

Well, it happened again today. I ordered a book, The Authoritarian Personality, from Amazon and it arrived damaged just like other books I have ordered from them, and just like other CDs in jewel cases I ordered from them, and just like other DVDs and Blu-rays in keep cases I have ordered from them. This means that I received a book from Amazon that they claim is new but which is actually very good plus. It is vg+ because, empirically speaking, it has a bump in the top right cover. It is vg+ because it has massive bumps within bumps in the lower left corner that also affects the spine. It is vg+ because page 757 of the book is folded in half and then that half has been folded in half too. Again, this is a book—a $35 dollar book—that Skankizon claims is new. It is not given this damage.

I contacted Skankizon, of course, but since I don’t have a phone with internet access and I don’t have a printer Skankizon punished me for receiving a book they claim that is new that is clearly not. They want me, a 70 year old with a history of asthma, arthritis, and stomach problems, in other words, to pay $8 dollars to return a book that they claimed that is new but is not. It is heavily damaged. I guess this is Skankazon’s notion of taking responsibility for its own actions.

I don’t know why I continue to buy books, CDs, and DVDs/Blu rays from Amazon. Well perhaps I do: Amazon seems to have deals. However, when you order books or CDs that are in jewel cases or DVDs/Blu ray that arrive damaged they are not really bargains anymore, are they? 

So up yours, Amazon, up yours Skankizon, up your automatons reading a slaggy and skanky moronic script in customer service and up your morally and ethically challenged powers that be. I will be much more circumspect about buying from you in the future and I will not purchasings books or CDs or DVDs/Blu rays from you in the future. If there is a hell, which I doubt—Skankizon, in Sartrean fashion is hell—you deserve to go there. 

Postscript: I posted this on the Amazon page on Facebook. I got a response from someone calling him or her self a customer service agent or something similar asking me to contact them by clicking on their title. I did and explained the problem: I was sold a damaged used book masquerading as a new book. I was proffered a repetitive canned we are sorry and was told I would receive a gift card  for my troubles and would be contacted about this via email. As of yet nothing of the sort has happened. No email. No nothing. Perhaps this customer service agent on Amazon is, and I would not be surprised if he or she is, a fake. After all, Amazon is nothing but a fake save when its emperor with no clothes is kissing Trump’s arse. Caveat emptor.