Kindle Special Offers Thread - Latest Deals Here - No Trading/Selling

Quote from damsel. : The thing that pisses me off is that all the people who jumped on them to get the laptop code are pissed off that the terms changed, even though Amazon is within their right to do so. The whole "customer is always right" bull shit is actually the "customer who bitches the most, chatting with 8 different representatives is getting what he wants." It's frustrating to me that people are taking advantage of this. Someone in the thread said they were able to get 6 codes applied today. I honestly wouldn't be surprised at this point if we see codes that pertain to the Kindle (covers, lights, books, etc.) and coupons like $15 off a $30 purchase, etc., while the codes that are sought after become few and far between. It angers me that people take advantage of Amazon like this and then even turn around and call them Scamazon. The farking nerve of people.

I think Amazon is OK with people trading codes, etc, but a code like 20% off laptop that works on Apple products had disaster written all over it. Nobody was going to go out and buy a KSO to get $10 off a case or toy purchase. They opened themselves to abuse and slew of buy/getcode/return transactions of KSOs. Not only they are losing from the promotion, but also from the returned KSOs. This particular promotion tempted me to get a KSO, and I already used two more codes (i.e., Kindle light code and Toy code) so far and will continue to do so in the future. In the mean time, I switched from reading on my tablet to KSO and finished 2 books already.

The "smart" thing would have been to make an exception for the 20% laptop code and tie it to each account. It could have been even applied to the account directly, without issuing any code, and if you had a qualifying purchase in your cart, then the discount would have kicked in...

The current method of using this code after they updated the list doesn't even involve using this code, because the CSRs can't apply a code on an ineligible laptop; so, they are manually reducing the price of the computers to reflect the same discount, leaving the code "unused". This will allow these people to purchase another laptop from the new list and flip that as well.

Again, I'm not endorsing the abuse that's taken place using this code, but Amazon should have seen this beforehand. Let's hope that they won't restrict every single "small" code to an account and take appropriate measures for the big codes only in the future.