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We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video.

In an effort to compensate you for the inconvenience, we have applied a £5.99 Amazon Gift Card to your account. The Gift Card amount is equal to the amount you paid for the Prime Video purchase(s). To apologize for the inconvenience, we've also added an Amazon Gift Certificate of £5 to your account. Your Gift Card balance will be automatically applied to your next eligible order. You can view your balance and usage history in Your Account here:

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Mofos

Return me ALL my money for that, fuck your girftcard coupon shit! That is the least you can do and still doesn't change the fact that I can't buy to own anything there, so why the fuck would I?

Jellyfin and torrents for the win!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gift cards and store credit are such a kick to the balls. Unless they let you buy shit AT COST then they're literally not out anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they're probably taking some sort of loss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Admittedly, I missed the second £5. That said, don't you need to pay for a Prime subscription to get access to this service in the first place? They're gonna get that money back pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The house always wins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's store credit in principle it costs them nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I buy DVDs for this reason now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dvds won't last years either unless you copy them over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nevermind the fact that the standard definition playback looks like a smeared turd when you play it on a modern high resolution display. I'll stick to ripping Blu-ray.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think when someone casually says DVD they're including Blu-ray, like if you say Kleenex, you might be talking about Puffs or Scott or something else...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nope, DVDs are like $3-5. I don't care about resolution. I watch old shitty movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

jellyfin+cloudstream for when I don't have the mood to click a couple buttons on radarr/sonarr is the perfect solution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They generally credit the original payment method. It could be likely that he paid for the movie using an Amazon giftcard balance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're saying you can't buy to own anything... at Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.