Can amazon ban my account for “abusing” cart plus item

Sure, they are a private company and can ban your account anytime they want for any reason.

Will they is the question you are looking for an answer to. Probably not is about the best answer you will get.

Why would they, since they usually offer that item to you for that purpose -- they'd rather you buy the $25 item from them rather than have you ditch the order and go somewhere else to avoid the shipping...

If you want to be banned from Amazon, start returning way too many purchases.

kr0zet wrote: ↑ Sure, they are a private company and can ban your account anytime they want for any reason.

Will they is the question you are looking for an answer to. Probably not is about the best answer you will get.

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EastGTARedFlagger wrote: ↑ Why would they, since they usually offer that item to you for that purpose -- they'd rather you buy the $25 item from them rather than have you ditch the order and go somewhere else to avoid the shipping...

If you want to be banned from Amazon, start returning way too many purchases.

lol I've returned every phone case I've bought from them so far this year cause they've all sucked. It's only like 6 orders and I have a bunch more regular orders I've kept but man do I hate how much of a crapshoot cheap phone cases from small companies are.

Every time you cancel an item (even a preorder) it is recorded in their system. Whether or not they choose to do anything with that data is up to them. But if you were cancelling items every 100% of the orders you made you might get their attention. Who knows.

If you place many orders, then the cancellation is neglectable. Just don't be that stupid and pick the same item every time to cancel, Amazon AI is not that easy to fool.

bylo wrote: ↑ How many orders will it take to convince you that
(a) buying cheap phone cases sight unseen is a crapshoot you're unlikely to win, and
(b) you've wasted more time and fuel returning cheap phone cases than it would have cost to buy a quality phone case in the first place?

They get delivered right to my door and I've never gone out of my way to return them (like yesterday, I had to go to the mall to do something else so I just dropped it off at the Shoppers there).

chemicalxv wrote: ↑ lol I've returned every phone case I've bought from them so far this year cause they've all sucked. It's only like 6 orders and I have a bunch more regular orders I've kept but man do I hate how much of a crapshoot cheap phone cases from small companies are.

Then why bother buying them if you know they are garbage. Buy a Spigen or Otterbox.

jackrabbit000 wrote: ↑ Then why bother buying them if you know they are garbage. Buy a Spigen or Otterbox.

Everything Otterbox is too bulky for my liking. I have Spigen cases but I'm starting to get annoyed with how quickly the clear ones start yellowing and all the ones with plastic components either have the plastic break or the colouring starts to wear off and you end up with white patches.

Is Amazon starting to crack down on preorders combined with "add on" items?

I did that the other week to get my add on items to ship, received add on item and went to cancel the preordered game and instead of letting me cancel the preordered game, I got a message saying I need to contact customer service. Never experienced that before. Anyone else come across the same thing recently?

Amazon uses an algorithm to ban automatically and no one is certain exactly what the algorithm is (tho many have theories).

Fact is, the more you return, the more likely you will be banned. Of course it takes in account the number of orders you made and total purchase price (aka % of that returned both in terms of # and $). Realistically, customers who don't abuse the system (or at least not too much) should NOT be close to the ban threshold. However if all you do is pre-order games to cancel and buy addon products, its possible your return percentage gets high enough to cross this threshold.