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I had ordered some books and dvds from Amazon.com in May 2007 when I was in Turkey. In about a month I had to leave Turkey and return to India. When after three months of ordering, I did not receive the product , I cancelled the order.
I had advised amazon.com well in advance that since I had left the country from where I had ordered, the amount should not be refunded to the same country’ bank account. Below are some of the emails that I exchanged with amazon.com.
Kindly check my above order which I had given in May 2007, but I am still to receive any of the item. I had ordered these while I was in Turkey and had used Turkey's credit card.
Since I have not received any of the items even after 3 months, kindly cancel all my orders and refund my money to this account.
Name : Philip Hou
Bank's Name : UTI Bank
Account No. : [protected]
Bank's Address : Navghar, Lucky Palace,
Near ST Bus Stand
Vasai - West
Thane - 401202 ( Maharashtra )
India.
As you said that " > 08/15/07 11:02:44

[protected]@amazon.com to me
show details 16 Aug
Dear Philip Hou,

Your order has been successfully canceled. For your reference, here's a summary of your order:

You just canceled order #[protected] placed on August 15, 2007.

Status: CANCELED

_____________________________________________________________________

1 of Mary-Kate & Ashley Collector's Set Around the World (When in Rome/Getting There/Holiday in the Sun/Winning London)
By: Mary-Kate Olsen & Ashley (Actor)

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
1 of The Challenge
By: Ashley Olsen (Actor), et al

Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC

_____________________________________________________________________

Because you only pay for items when we ship them to you, you won't be charged for any items that you cancel.

Thank you for visiting Amazon.com!

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On 16/08/07, Amazon.com Customer Service wrote:
Greetings from Amazon.com.

First let me apologize for the inconvenience caused. Please be assured that we are here to make things easier for you. We will take
each and every action to prevent you from bearing any loss.I'm sorry, but it appears that your order has been lost in shipping.

I've placed a new order for the items to be shipped to you as soon as possible.

To ensure that your order is delivered quickly and efficiently, and that these items are not held up by delays in customs clearance
procedures, we create a replacement order with charges when an international order is lost, damaged, or incorrect. The charge for
this order is $55.98.This same amount will be refunded to your original order. Both the charge and refund will be applied to the credit card used on the original order.

Here are the order details:

Order Number : [protected]
Shipping Speed : Expedited International Shipping
Estimated Delivery Date: August 23, 2007 - August 29, 2007
cust.[protected]@amazon.com to me, orders
show details 23 Aug
Hello from Amazon.com.

We're writing to confirm that we have processed your refund for $55.98
for the above-referenced order.

For more information on how we calculate refunds, please visit our
web site at http://www.amazon.com/refunds

We hope this is a satisfactory resolution for you. However, if you
have any questions or concerns, please use this link to contact
Customer Service:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/returns-and-refunds.html

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com.

Amazon.com Customer Service to me
show details 26 Sep
Thank you for contacting us at Amazon.com.

I am sorry to hear that you have not yet received your order. However i checked your order and I see that a full refund for the amount of $64.69 has been issue3d to the credit card you have used to pay for the order. I understand that you no longer use the credit card. I am sorry but, we are unable to reverse a refund as we would have to re-charge the cancelled card, and charges can not be applied to closed accounts. If you have another credit card with the same issuing bank, the bank can normally apply the refund to your other credit card. If you no longer have a credit card with the issuing bank they will issue you a refund check. Please contact the issuing bank about the refund on your cancelled credit card. For your privacy, your bank will only speak to you about your account. Again, I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced and express our gratitude for the patience you've displayed thus far.

Thank you for shopping with Amazon.com--we look forward to seeing you soon.

Best regards,

Sanju S.
Amazon.com Customer Service

Sir/Madam,

Earlier I had requested you not to refund money to the credit card used on the original order since I have already left that country. Kindly refund money to my above account. Or if it is not possible to refund to the above account kindly inform how the amount can be refunded or redeemed.

regards
Philip

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show details 23 Aug
Hello from Amazon.com.

We're writing to confirm that we have processed your refund for $55.98
for the above-referenced order.

For more information on how we calculate refunds, please visit our
web site at http://www.amazon.com/refunds

We hope this is a satisfactory resolution for you. However, if you
have any questions or concerns, please use this link to contact
Customer Service:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/returns-and-refunds.html

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com.

Now I have found that the amazon.com has charged back the amount to the same old credit card which I had cancelled before I returned to India. And it has become next to impossible to get back that amount even after months of emailing to Garanti Bank of Turkey.

I don’t know whom to blame.

Philip
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Amazon auction site gave a customer his money back and let him keep the item too. He said it was broken, but never offered to return the item. He had my address on the package, but I still have not received it. Amazon did not care and let him have his money anyway. What business gives money back without first receiving the item, broken or not. On top of that, since he gave me a bad review they have cut me off of their seller site. How fair is that. BEWARE! they do not take care of the sellers.

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I ordered 2 Sony Ericsson Cellphones from Amazon.com on Oct 9th 2007. I waited one week and then my orders were suddenly cancelled. The reason cited wrong price listed. An email was sent to me and I was ASKED to read their pricing policies. What kind of customer service is this? As far as i am concerned, IBM honored their wrong price listing and shipped to those who already ordered from them a few years ago. Bestbuy does that too. The laptops at IBM were going for $1 then. The phones I bought were not even that low priced. If Amazon listed the wrong price, the person to be penalized should be the website administrator, not the customer. If my salesperson sold something at the wrong price, I ask the salesperson to payback the balance because it is the salesperson fault and not the customer. I don't go around asking the customer to return the item or cancel shipment. This is obviously bad customer service and they refuse to admit it. Item was not even an obvious mistake as amazon always sell items cheaper than MSRP. Other vendors on Amazon.com was selling for $499 and I bought it at $299. I have been buying alot of electronics from them over a period of a few years and they rather risk losing a customer than honored an item that was not even obviously wrongly listed to come off. I contacted customer service a few times and was turned away with just textbook answers and the same thing - ASKING ME TO READ PRICING POLICIES, and they stated: "We understand you are upset but there is nothing we can do at this point as we stopped honoring the sales" What does that mean? You shipped to some and decide to not shipped to some? RIDICULOUS .Well, all these policies are meant to protect their mega corporations anyway. The real deal is I am an unhappy customer who ordered from them on their website validating a contract that they should in fact honored regardless of price, they offered a price, I accepted it and then they must fulfill it. They just take advantage of us consumers that we don't have the power to hire attorney and filing suit against them for small purchases.I later realized that their customer service department was outsourced to India and these people know nothing about retaining customers. There was no other valid contact and I also emailed investor relations. No news from them. I am very disappointed in Amazon.com and with these kind of attitude treating customers, no wonder my friends are moving to buy.com for their purchases. What amazon.com is telling us is that, they rather lose their customers than a few hundred dollars. In fact, I don't think they will even lose a single cent selling me the cellphones at the price they listed looking at their profit margin. So are their profit growing every year because of their total focus on profit margin and nothing about customer satisfaction? Looks like they are trying to prevent us from actually contacting corporate. The only address listed is for investors, other than that, they block off all addresses and emails.I wasted so much time and energy looking for them and trying to get them to honored the contract i entered into when i click purchase! DISAPPOINTED, VERY DISAPPOINTED

I placed an order #[protected] with Amazon for almost $500.

This order was shipped on September 18, 2007 and was never delivered.

Amazon has blocked all ways to inform them of non-delivery in their web site and do not provide email or other contact information to enable me to inform them of non-delivery.

I hope some one there reads thes complaints

The nightmare began in April when I received my statement late. I called Chase and the rep assured me that if I sent in my payment and it was received in a week there would be no late fees. I paid the balance that night with my online banking system assured that it was paid in full. $17.00

Because I assumed my balance was paid, I didn't look for a bill in the months of May and June (thought they were junk mail.) Luckily in July I happened to open a billing statement and was surprised to find that I owed $48.00.(interest rate + 3 @15.00 late payments).

I called Chase and spoke to a rep (very difficult to understand)and when he said he could not help me I asked to speak to a manager. After an hour of very rude customer service the manager agreed to eliminate one of the late fees, assuring me that I would owe $33.00. I paid the balance once again with my online statement.

Today I received another statement assessing me another late fee. When I called Chase I asked to be connected to a supervisor. She was just as rude as the first one and refused to take care of the unjustified fees.

I can't help but wonder if this isn't a scam. I am very surprised that two reputable businesses such as Chase and Amazon would have such poor customer service and want to rip off consumers.

Emma J Celeste.

Amazon advertised a cordless phone as NEW. It appeared it the cart with REFURB inserted in the product model number. (It did not say Refurbished anyplace else, it could easily have been overlooked). I phoned customer service, who "absolutely assured" it was new. In fact it is shipped directly from Panasonic. I ordered it, then called Panasonic. It is a 2005 model they no longer sell, so it would not be in their warehouse. It could only be coming from a Panasonic refurbish unit or another refurbish unit. Amazon sent me an auto-generated email asking if I'd been satisfied with customer service. I clicked NO, and a representative phoned me. He said the listing had been changed to "refurbished". I checked and it hadn't. He then said that REFURBISHED IS THE SAME AS NEW. He held to that position. I'd not trust "New" on Amazon.

I had been a loyal Amazon.com customer for 5 years. I placed, on average, one order per month in various amounts. In my 5 years of dealing with Amazon I never had a problem with them.

On May 18th I ordered something from Amazon for my laptop computer. My order was processed and I received the item on May 22, 2007. A few days later I receive a letter, dated May 24th, from a collection agency named Certegy Payment Recovery. They also called my office with an automated dunning message.

Apparently my credit card had expired and I had not updated the information. No one from Amazon ever called me, sent me an e-mail or a letter or made any attempt to resolve this issue before handing me over to a collection agency. A simple e-mail or notification that there was a problem with my payment, and I would have taken care of it immediately. Instead my credit rating and my good name is placed in jeopardy by a bunch of thoughtless, di**less as**ole who can not give a slight courtesy to a long term customer.

I called Certegy and they told me that they had no information apart from a referral from Amazon of my case. I called Amazon and they told me to call Certegy. I wrote an e-mail to Amazon customer service 2 days ago and the scrotumless immigrants working in Amazon's customer service have not even given me the courtesy of a reply.

I canceled my Amazon account and I will never use their service again. They will get their payment when I am good and ready to send it. I will show them the same courtesy that they have shown to me.

[protected]@#! You Amazon.com!

A few weeks ago, my Amazon shopping cart suddenly reverted to an old version, several months old in fact. As a result, a number of items I had saved disappeared, and a number of items I had either bought or deleted reappeared.

When I communicated with customer service, they told me that once an item disappeared from the shopping cart, it couldn’t be recovered. I pointed out to them that several items that had been removed, had in fact reappeared. Obviously, if an old shopping cart file from months ago still existed on their system, the old file from a couple of days ago does also, and thus could be restored, if they wanted to.

This set us off a round of promises to fix the problem, until, after much back and forth, they reverted to the old, already-discredited statement that once something had been removed it couldn’t be restored.

Both Amazon’s shopping cart process AND the company’s attitude toward customer service are broken.

My boyfriend used my account (with my permission) and ordered a pack of CDs from a buyer through Amazon.com. We got the CDs just fine, the seller got his payment, and everything was hunky-dory.

Then, a couple of weeks later, I started getting these calls from this debt-collection agency, but they wouldn't tell me what it was about because they were using my boyfriend's name, since he placed the order. I got my boyfriend to call them back and we found out that an amount of $27.24, the exact amount of my boyfriend's CD purchase, had been placed with a collection agency in Alabama.

They could not tell us anything more than the amount owed and how to pay it (a lot about how to pay it). We told them that we did not owe the money because all my records showed that the guy got his payment (and we got the CDs). The agency told us that they didn't know anything about it. They didn't even know it was Amazon. They just knew they were supposed to get money from us.

We hung up and called Amazon. Of course, we all know that Amazon does not post its number on its site, for whatever reason so we had to google up a number. Amazon told us that everything was fine in their systems, too, just like my records showed. We told them we thought so, but this agency won't leave us alone (they called me about 5 times a day for almost two weeks - from 7:30 am to 9 pm and would not tell me why!).

Bottom line is, this collection agency has my name (though they have stopped calling) and amazon will not tell them that I don't owe them anything. I don't know how to get the two companies to talk to each other. We gave the agency Amazon's number, but they said they will not call amazon to verify that my account is fine. I don't even know how the agency got the number, unless amazon gave it to them, which they said they didn't!

So, I'm totally confused and I don't really trust Amazon very much anymore. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

On December 21, 2006, I ordered some jewelry from AlleFineJewelry.com via Amazon. They said it needed to be appraised so it would not arrive in time for Christmas. On December 29, 2006, it still had not come. I canceled the order with Alle Fine Jewelry on December 29, 2006 because they emailed me and told me it would not be shipped until Jan. 08, 2007 and did I want to cancel? I answered that I did want to cancel and I asked for a refund. On January 4, 2007, Alle Fine Jewelry emailed me and said they were over-nighting half of my order. I emailed back and asked them why they would send it since I had canceled the order on December 29, 2006. They sent me half of the order. When the package came, I returned to sender and I never opened the package. Then I asked them to please refund my money where they had charged my credit card on December 21, 2006 in the amount of $1938.00.

They received the merchandise back on January 10, 2007 according to FedEx and I have the receptionist's signature on file. I have been asking and asking for my refund daily from Alle Fine Jewelry via Amazon only to be met with, "we are still examining the jewelry you returned." Mind you, they only sent half of the order, but they said they are also examining the one they never sent. That is rather curious to examine one that they never sent.

The person I have been dealing with at Amazon.com is Peg Anderson and she has not been helpful at all, but in fact, now my Amazon.com account has been blocked, which is rather curious since I have purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from them since 2000, yet, no refund from them still.

As of January 27, 2006 and they still are "examining" the jewelry I returned unopened which I had canceled before they sent it and they still have not given me my refund in the amount of $1938.00 nor a date when I can expect it.

Peg Anderson of Amazon.com was my inspiration for filing this complaint. If you have a complaint about Amazon.com, you can email their Executive Customer Relations Department at [protected]@amazon.com, but don't expect any satisfaction.

Since Amazon.com removes customer reviews and discussions that do not suit their purpose, please beware of their customer reviews on their site. They in fact, did remove my review of the above mentioned merchant, which shows they do not want customers forewarned about bad merchants and that you cannot trust their reviews.

I won't use them again and I am warning everyone I know and even strangers, about them. This is the shoddiest service I have received in my life. I will post this on every complaint forum I can find.

What company would have the "courage" to send this type of message to a client?

"I have reviewed you account and your orders. I do apologize for the frustration and disappointment in this matter.

As it appears we are unable to ship items to the address that you have provided I have now requested refunds to your account [...]

These refunds will result in your not being charged for your order. If by chance you receive your items please keep them with our
compliments."

A comment: I payed in September and now, December 11, I find that Amazon has no control of its shipments. Bad news.