Anyone Had Their Amazon Account Limited to Digital Purchases Only?

I've had my Amazon AU account restricted to "digital" purchases only.

I have a few hundred in gift cards added to my account and I'm not interested in renting movies or audio. Are there any loopholes in buying something of value I can resell? The message I received about this was for suspicious activity and some other generic excuse. I've had Prime, bought a lot over the years and returned perhaps 3 or 4 items.

Has anyone else had this pseudo ban placed on them?

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  • +12

    So what’s the story, were you running a back-alley market for Alexa voice packs or just too good at returning those 'never opened' items? Or was it shipping?

    • +12

      Hahaha.. To quote the OP:

      You cannot fathom the emmesity of the funk I give

    • +7

      Someone called it

      This is the kind of thing amazon bans your account for especially if you abuse the returns system.

    • +1

      "Well well well if it isn't the consequence of my own action" -txb probably

    • Just because I posted that MUST mean I followed through with that

      • returned perhaps 3 or 4 items.

        • 👍

  • -2

    Have you spoken with live chat?
    Are you using a vpn to buy and return items?
    I return about 20% of the items I buy and I’ve never had any restrictions

    • +4

      I return about 20% of the items I buy

      Don't you need to return the whole item to get a refund?

      • -2

        yeah ive returned condoms, used 2, they were too big

    • They just go in circles with me to email their account specialist

  • +1

    What goes around comes around?

  • +11

    You are in the "find out" stage my friend.

    and returned perhaps 3 or 4 items

    Sure sure. Looking at your other thread I don't believe that.

  • +6

    So finds a loophole for free USA shipping, complain account gets limited.

  • Not me.

  • Sounds like you've made a fair few return claims, that is what usually happens when systems are taken advantage of, they no longer trust your business as a physical purchase customer.

  • +2

    I've never seen OZB rally so hard together supporting Amazon's decision before haha

    When you abuse the system, everyone else pays.

    Enjoy the digital purchases.

    • +3

      some people are truly just not self aware.

      "Guys I was just in an accident, can i go and get insurance to cover it" is another of my favourite OZB posts.

  • +8
  • +4

    few hundred in gift cards added to my account

    Not sus at all.

    • +1

      It's not suss. Especially for Ozbargainers that find those 10% discounted cards

      • It's not suss.

        Nah, it is sus

    • I've got hundreds in discounted amazon gift cards in small denominations. I don't load them in all at once though.

  • +2

    This sounds like an issue that could be answered by Amazon - have you actually asked them what the limitation is about?

    They'd probably tell you what you violated or what the issue was…..

  • +3

    ADAGCHS

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