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 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.
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