Quote from: johnsmithx on February 27, 2017, 11:29:35 AM

Quote from: MasonIII on February 27, 2017, 07:17:00 AM

I can't say I am satisfied with the outcome as I only have 1 account, 1 credit applied, credit card and number attached so there isn't any abuse on that front but thanks for the reply and your take on the situation.

If you had only 1 credit code applied then only 1 credit code was deleted and you can simply buy and apply a new one. And you should be actually very happy with this outcome because what you did not realize is that Amazon cancels all credit codes when they do this counter-measure. Let me reiterate: they don't delete only codes from crypto-bit, they don't delete only EDU codes, they delete all codes that you have applied in your account. All of them, regardless of where, when or from whom you got them. It could be codes worth of thousands dollars. Now if a person already accrued a bill which these codes were supposed to cover then they now all of a sudden have thousands of real dollars to pay. And they can't just buy codes from the same events as they had removed because even though the codes were deleted they still count.

If you had only 1 credit code then you can buy another one and you can still apply it because the limit is 4 EDU codes of the same event per account so all you have to pay is lousy $10 or $12. That compared to thousands of dollars that some people will have to pay is just laughable. Of course you don't have to give a damn about other people and their problems but if you say "I can't say I am satisfied with the outcome" then if you put these words of yours into perspective they come out as very arrogant and preposterous so I can't say I feel sorry for you because you lost $10 or $12.

These are real tragedies. People affected by this rather rough Amazon action (it would be much more reasonable if Amazon removed just the "guilty" codes, but that's not what they do, they remove everything) usually don't have thousands of dollars to pay just like that. That's why they bought the credit codes in the first place. Conversely, they would have never created such a huge bill if they couldn't buy these codes. Now all their codes are gone and they have to pay these crazy amounts of money or face the consequences (at the very least termination of their account).

Now i thank John for a clear speech about the situation . Indeed if the seller provided active and working credits his duty ends there , now customer always has to know the terms of Amazon itself , it mentioned always that Amazon can revoke credits anytime they want cause buying / selling / trading AWS promo against their terms . Now this is seriously tragic incident but actually victims can bypass it by adding an AWS VCC and leave that aws account forever or by adding this new event code which amazon giving out now , i heard from some of my customers that this reduce the bill indeed . The new code which crypto offering at the moment . Also this will stack 4x on your AWS Account beside all previous EDU Codes you applied but remember risk is always there and its good to see OP mentioned clear terms now . Actually the victim lost 10 - 12$ to the Credit seller , there is no fraud involved in this . It just breaks the AWS Terms and which point AWS revokes the codes . I hope Crypto provided legit service so far so there is nothing he can do at this point . Refunding 10 / 12$ will not save the victim from the due bill but adding up another credit may reduce that . Previously we knew credits cannot pay old dues but now it does at least with the event code OP selling here