It’s as good as cash. It’s an IOU
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AdmiralShat@programming.dev 9 months agoThey absolutely didn’t get their money back. They got a voucher. They got scrip.
Getting money back would be getting money back.
I agree it’s still better than walking away empty handed, but let’s not pretend that got their money back.
Bootheal0179@lemmy.world 9 months ago
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Nope. You are bound to store prices and store products, and specifically applicable products maybe even bound to a time frame.
Gift cards are absolutely less valuable than the same amount in your bank account or in cash.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s $5.99 in their Amazon account.
TechnoWarden@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yes, but there is no easy way to transfer Amazon money into money outside of Amazon to purchase things outside kr Amazon. So, Amazon “refunding” you with a voucher doesn’t really do anything (Amazon is gonna get that money anyways, since you can only use Amazon money in Amazon).
clegko@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Buy a fucking visa gift card, it’s not rocket science.
phx@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Better yet, use it to contribute towards a VPN subscription for more long-lasting ways of acquiring content
Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
In the rare case the person has just stopped spending money at Amazon, I guess. For anyone that’s spending $10/month, it’s effectively the same as cash. (Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
No, you can’t. It acts the same as a gift card.
Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
From dealing with their support in the past and stuff they’ve accommodated, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could just ask them to do it for a small amount like that. If you do a web search, you can also find a lot of information and people claiming it’s possible to do stuff like transfer it to a Paypal account, etc.
I haven’t tried to do that personally, so maybe it really just isn’t possible. It’s still only something that will affect someone that’s never going to spend money at Amazon again, right? If I’m going to spend $5.99 at some point, it’s effectively the same as a cash refund for me. If I’m going to spend $10.99 at some point it’s almost the same as getting double the refund, since I would have spent cash instead in those cases.