In reply to a post by rogerfp:

Moaning about Amazon is still not a subject for thinkbroadband. Bring it up on the Amazon web site or the home of the paranoid, the Mail website, but not here. I'm sure the Mail would love another reason to bash Amazon.

No need, the ASA has already told off Amazon for it: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amaz...

Indeed.

They don't avoid their responsibilities with regards to Sales of Goods Act, they go above and beyond, on 3 occasions now in my experience, I've emailed them on the Saturday and had the replacement on the Monday morning.

I know from experience that I would be past pillar to post in many other large outlets, stuck in arduous phone queue etc.

yeah I am getting these emails also.

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

Latest wheeze from Amazon, the company that opts out of paying taxes on £millions of UK profit yet disregards the optouts of its customers:

You're one of the very first people to use this new Q&A feature. We're trying to help customers get trusted answers from other customers when they have questions about products. As someone who owns Kaspersky antivirus, can you help this fellow customer?

This presumably because I bought KAV from them last year. One would have thought Amazon had enough bad publicity about its Prime auto-renewal trick this month without spamming customers who had chosen to refuse 'marketing material'.

What exactly is the big deal?

Now I'm very much against spam and all forms of advertising (I own a Truecall unit and never watch live TV for example) but I've had a couple of these emails and all they are doing is asking if you as the probable owner of the product can help out other people who are thinking of buying it or are using it and have problems.

I answered a couple of questions because I like to be helpful and share my knowledge. If you don't like providing help for other people why do you even bother coming to Thinkbroadband?

As for Amazon and taxation - I'll repeat what I've often pointed out on the subject. Companies do not pay taxes. The owners, shareholders and customers pay them. Taxes are just one of many expenses for a company and they will just pass the cost on to other people. The only people who have any reason to complain about Amazon being tax efficient are those who own or are employed by their competitors. For everyone else it's just keeping prices down.

Don't get drawn in by government and left-wing propaganda. It's not like the government would make better use of those funds. Leave them out in the wider economy where they can be better utilised instead of squandered on poorly thought out and badly budgeted government idiocy.

Edited by Andrue (Sat 14-Mar-15 15:05:13)