After they clawed back the royalties they paid on the original content, I assume (based on their practices around ebooks and audiobook).
Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.
DeliBelly@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s more like: we took it away and gave you a ~100% ROI by adding a $5 gift card to your “refund”. Still sucks though.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Not really. The subjective monetary value of whatever you might spend that money on is most likely going to be less than the store’s listed price. To give a more obvious (extreme) example, imagine if you got a $30 gift card to a store that sells individual grapes for $2 each. You can buy $30 worth of grapes from them, but 15 grapes are not worth $30 to any sane person. Hell, maybe you don’t even like grapes and they’re completely worthless!
DarienGS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it’s a fair bet they’re going to have something you want at a decent price.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s true that this exchange in this particular instance is a net gain for like 99.9% of the victims. Hell, most people were probably never even gonna watch the movie again anyway. However, using that to justify this practice opens the door for abuse down the line. Store credit is not an acceptable form of compensation. Imagine if you totaled someone’s car and then offered them $10k credit at a junkyard you own. It would be unacceptable! Why give large corporations an exception?
DeliBelly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In your example you wreck someone’s car which they didn’t buy at your junkyard. It’d be to think of it like this: you own a car dealership. You wreck your clients car worth 10K. You tell them to pick any car worth 20K off of your lot. Sure, the 20K includes your profit margins, but your client still gets $10K worth of car for free.
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 year ago
Idunno what's going on here but I've got a burning curiosity as to whether this grape store has any lemonade.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m sad that someone down voted you because they didn’t get the reference.
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 year ago
Joke's on them, I don't even see it :D Here, have an upvote!
Unless you brought glue, in which case I'd best waddle away...
DeliBelly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, just like with the original purchase. They made money on that too, but returned the full amount, including their margin. Amazon loses money on this compensation. They don’t sell stuff with a 10x margin.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I get what you’re saying and I already said that 99% of people would be happy with it, but my other comment details how that form of compensation fails to cover everyone.