5/10/2023 amazon dot bomb
Here's an experience I had recently with the soul-sucking cartel that is amazon.
Our original 21W Anker solar panels have been trucking with us since day one, and Adam has even re-wired one of them. So in looking to the future, we decided to order another panel. Due to the nature of our lifestyle, particularly the views that Adam is not at all shy about sharing, we thought we might try to go about it anonymously. I anonymously setup a new email address, I then created an amazon account using said email address and added the solar panel to the cart so that we could see exactly how much it would cost. It qualified for free shipping. Adam then purchased an amazon gift card using cash for that amount. I proceeded with checkout, and the first bump in the road was that, during the checkout process, the payment methods are entered before the shipping method is selected. The default shipping method was not the free shipping, so in order to proceed, I needed to provide an additional handful of money. I entered the information for a VISA gift card Adam had on hand and proceeded to select the free shipping, thus having no funds taken from the VISA giftcard, allowing the amazon gift card to cover the cost of the merchandise. The second bump in the road was that the item we were purchasing could not be shipped to an amazon locker as it was too large. We had used the amazon locker a couple weeks prior when we ordered some new battery banks. It happens that there were also some road bumps in ordering the batteries as well. Amazon claimed that there was a problem with the payment method; a payment method we had used multiple times each year on amazon for the previous 5 consecutive years. That transaction eventually went through after I called my step-father to explain the situation and see if he wouldn't mind calling the bank, per amazon's recommendation. Just step aside to think for a moment here. If you were a multi-trillion dollar organization, and I'm talking about the government here, who was trying to bring down a man, one of whose primary means of exposing your lies and treachery is through a website and the occasional forum or comment post by using a tablet which is powered by battery banks that are charged by solar panels, you'd do whatever you could to try and prevent him from obtaining more supplies that would ultimately enable him to do more than he already is, right? In order to do this successfully, it would have to be covert, right? Otherwise people might wise up to you and call for your head. It has to look like just coincidence. So you get someone, or a handful of people on staff at the outlet where you know the guy shops so they can be around to just slip a monkey wrench into the works when no one's looking. Except someone was looking. Amazon suggested calling the bank stating it was a problem from their end. The idea here is that you get tossed into an endless loop when the bank says there's no problem but amazon keeps saying there's a problem with the bank.
When I called my step-father, whose name is on the payment method, all he really did was look at the statement online and tell me that he could see a charge pending. He was of little to no help, although he did offer to order the batteries from his amazon account using his money for which I would repay him. What did happen was that I told him the whole situation and explained how it seemed oddly specific that there was "a problem" with our payment when there was clearly no problem. I brought his attention to the fact that we were being targeted to prevent any improvements in our capabilities. Not in so many words, but I've talked openly about it before, so he probably got the hint. He didn't need to "get the hint," necessarily. All I had to do was say it. At this point, when you're that multi-trillion dollar organization trying to be covert, circling your hands in front of the faces of the onlookers saying, "There's nothing to see here..." you've got a choice. They chose to make me look like the crazy one, and we got our battery banks. The transaction going through then makes my claims of being targeted appear to be unfounded. It just looks like a glitch in the system now.
On top of that, it rained the day the batteries were delivered, exactly at the time Adam went out to pick them up on exactly the route he was taking to get there. In looking at the radar, it appeared to be cloud-seeding. The rain appeared rather suddenly and rather heavily, and pretty much only on the route Adam was on. Someone in a pickup truck offered him a ride which he took, knowing full well this was an agent of the very organization seeding the rain clouds. The agent seemed to know quite a bit about the situation before Adam even said anything. They were chatting about where he was going and why, and the agent says, "and you got such a good deal on them!" when Adam hadn't mentioned anything about a good deal. He picked up our batteries though, and we've been happy with them so far. So there's that. Back to the solar panel. I could not have the solar panel shipped to an amazon locker as it was too large. So our options were to either forfeit the order and the money, have it shipped "General Delivery" to a post office or to have it shipped to a local "pack & ship" store where they charge $10 per package received. We opted for the General Delivery. In either of the latter two situations, I would have had to enter Adam's name on the shipping address so that he could retrieve it as both options require an ID to pick up packages, thus eliminating our anonymity. After some discussion, I changed the shipping address, placed the order, and immediately got an email saying that they've cancelled the order and the amazon account had been placed on hold. I couldn't log in to the amazon account. The claim was that they detected unusual activity on it. You mean placing an order? After several rounds on the phone with customer service and sending in photographic evidence of our legitimate purchase of the amazon gift card and our explanation of our ownership of the VISA giftcard, the account was eventually closed and a refund was not issued for the amazon gift card. To give a few more details of the roundabout they had me running, first they'd ask for proof of purchase of the amazon card, then proof of authorization to use the VISA giftcard. When i provided that, they simply said they needed a picture of a government issued photo ID and a utility bill to prove the billing address, even though gift cards have no associated billing address. They're basically expendable funds. Obviously, neither of us wanted one of the world's largest corporations to have a copy of an ID at their disposal, so I continued to argue that the funds on the amazon gift card were sufficient to cover the cost of the merchandise.
So when you upload photos of the credit cards, gift or otherwise, you only expose the last 4 digits of the card, so I did that with some strategically placed bits of paper. Once, they claimed the last 4 digits weren't visible when they clearly were. So we took another set of photos which Adam signed with a PGP signature. I may be getting the terminology wrong here, but what this does is create a hash key, a unique string of numbers and letters about a paragraph long. When you download the signed photo, you can check the signature against the key, and if they do not match, it is an indication that the photos have been tampered with. We were calling their bluff. I was on the phone with a guy at customer service after receiving the "we can't see the last 4 digits" bullshit but before we sent the signed photos, and he seemed a nice enough fellow. He wasn't sure if it would work, but he suggested I send an email to [email protected] and attach the photos in question. Apparently this is the email address for the help-desk he was working on, so he would see the email come and be able to examine the photos. Alas, the photos were blocked for him, but WHILE we were talking and waiting for the email with the photos to arrive at his inbox, I got another email saying they'd placed the account on hold due to "unusual activity." At that moment, I had been telling him about the original email I'd received that was verbatim the same email. Apparently someone was listening in and just wanted me to know that. Later, they rejected the documents we supplied but didn't even give a reason.
...their veil is off. No more hiding.
An endless loop like this could really burn a person up, and that's exactly what they want. That's how bullies work. Take, for example sibling bullying. Often, the victim sibling whines to the parents who punish the bully sibling who just ends up bullying again later, and the parents and other elders just accept it as "sibling love," so it's really just a never-ending cycle. Instead of relying on the help of others, say, the parents, the better business bureau, or the attorney general, depending on the bully, it's better to just accept the fact that some people, and any organization for that matter, are just bullies, and the bigger and stronger they are, the more likely they are to get away with your money. Proceed with caution, knowing that they intend to steal from you. Any sort of victim behavior: "why did the steal our money???" plays exactly into what the multi-trillion dollar organization would want. Any further denial of the truth such as coming up with other reasons, no matter how illogical, for how and why the theft took place only function to further set the cement in which your head is buried.
This experience marks the first time that I wasn't able to navigate the customer service circus to my desired end result, but as it turns out, the circus was rigged. I was never going to navigate it to my desired end result. Realistically, when satan sanctions you, you know you must be doing something right. So I should be proud that amazon stole that money. I suppose that in the end, I am. They may have made off with the cash, but they have exposed themselves, and, to hear Adam say it, their veil is off. No more hiding. Comments are closed.
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