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Try and rent a car without a credit card.
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airline ticket for cash. the men in the TSA suits want to talk to you pretty badly. most ski areas do not deal with cash anymore. both in the ticket line and when trying to buy food. we have entered a plastic economy. deal |
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Attention everybody:
Please note that this is a discussion-based community and as such everyone is entitled to share his or her opinion politely. Even if you personally consider another person's opinion useless, please let's all remain civil and polite to each other. Mobileread Posting Guidelines .Thank you, |
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The OP here did not ask about skiing or airline tickets. This is very off topic and demonstrative of your anger. |
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Amazon would do well to service all people, and not insisting on harvesting credit cards for access to free content is one of the ways to start. |
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[QUOTE=Kevin R;1047776]Please try to remain civil. You are a very angry and disturbed person.
The OP here did not ask about skiing or airline tickets. This is very off topic and demonstrative of your anger.[/QUOTE this is so not angry and disturbed. this is nice and talking about real life! Quote:
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To the original poster - My best suggestion would be to send a note to the FTC consumer protection group (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/index.shtml) or the comptroller of the currency (http://www.occ.treas.gov/customer.htm) who has some authority regarding credits cards and financial transactions. Do not let the folks in this thread discourage you. Your original concerns are valid. |
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Further, the sale is not "free" - nothing is "free". It is a _sale_. At no financial cost to you, maybe, but it costs Amazon bandwidth and possibly also wireless delivery. Being an online sale, Amazon have terms of sale, and one is inherently that you require a cc/dc/pc for payment, id and identification of location. As mentioned earlier, this is pretty common throughout other industries (eg hiring stuff) and almost ubiquitous online. Consider Amazon's side. They have a contractual obligation to enforce georestrictions. What do you think is more of a concern, breach of contract or a handwavey discrimination claim? Last edited by iphitus; 08-08-2010 at 04:54 AM. |
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I'm sorry to disagree, but they are not. There's no law requiring a company to accept methods of payment other than credit or debit cards, and a number of people have pointed out methods by which anyone in the USA can obtain such a card. Contacting "the authorities" about this matter would just be a waste of both the original poster's time, and theirs. It is the original poster's personal choice not to have such a card; Amazon are doing nothing "wrong" here.
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Anyone with more than a few minutes of time, and the ability to perform any sort of movement could get to a local grocer such as Safeway, Fred Meyer, Kroger, etc. and purchase a cheap gift card with the visa or mastercard logo, or even heaven forbid have a bank account (almost all debit cards have a logo) and register that on the account. That gift card could be used to buy items anywhere (not even Amazon) and it would still work. Dear Lord...are people really so lazy that they can't even do basic research these days? Hold on Earl...I don't see nothing on those tubes leading to that WickedPeteEhUh site. |
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Excuse me if I'm being a bit thick, but I still don't understand how you can buy a Kindle without an Amazon account that then allows you access to content.
It's true that Amazon don't make their free books available to non-Amazon customers, which is a policy which some may not like, but which seems understandable to me from a commercial point of view. I would much rather Amazon made their free content freely available, and sold DRM-free ebooks formatted to an open standard. Just because that's what I'd like them to do doesn't mean that I have any right to force them to do it. As consumers, we should vote with our feet. At the moment, Amazon looks - to me - like the most practical option to get access to a wide range of ebooks at a reasonable price. |
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