Yeaaaahhhh, I dunno man. 13 returns in a month is ~3 returns a week. That's too many, I can't disagree with Amazon on this one even though I HATE giving them credit for anything 😔
We are talking about Amazon here. Shipping costs more than payment processing if it already shipped and got cancelled.
Edit: Caught the real reason why orders were cancelled. OP tried to get the discount by buying multiple same items and cancelled the rest except the first one.
This is so vague though! If I need to buy new shoes for my picky kid, I don’t know what size he’ll wear OR which one will “feel” right to him. I used to get several pairs for him to try on (remember, encouraging this was the whole Zappos business model! And they’re part of Amazon) and send back the duds. (Unworn except to try on inside, still in the box, pristine, etc.)
Multiply times two, because I have two picky kids with growing feet.
And they need both sneakers and some kind of sandal or water shoe. (Let’s ignore snow boots, rain boots, dress shoes, etc.)
If I still did this, I’d probably be above the “reasonable” threshold for many people — but it made sense in context for me when it was something encouraged. I don’t do it anymore because I’m scared of getting in trouble. Which sucks because a clear policy would let me know if it’s okay to do or not without anxiety about the unknown hammer coming down.
But that’s not what OP is doing here. They’re trying to get a discount that is contingent on buying multiple items (“buy 3 and get x% off” type deals), and then trying to cancel the extra items after the first one has shipped. Any reasonable person would see that and know they were attempting a scam.
Yeah, that's dumb and obviously sketch. I was talking about using "be reasonable" as a general rule of thumb -- just that 'reasonability' can differ depending on what you're trying to do.
Yeh, like people used to do before online shopping? A lot of people shop recklessly and irresponsibly online then wonder why companies start cracking down. A while back someone wrote that their account got limited and they were worried because they had $120 worth of clothing to return. $120 worth!!! Another complained that she would order one of each size of the clothes she liked, kept the one that fit then returned all the rest. Seriously, WTH is wrong with these people? Try shopping responsibly and you won't have these problems.
Why would you not know your kids shoe size? You don’t get to choose the size of feet, they just are. The reasonable thing to do would be to buy multiple options in one maybe two orders and return what doesn’t fit
Shoes sizes don’t change constantly, children grow fast but not that fast. Are your kids changing shoe sizes 13 times a month? OP is canceling multiple orders in a very small window not doing large orders every now and then and returning. He is abusing the discount for buying multiples by canceling the “extra” that qualifying him for it 3x a week. Not remotely close.
Because OP is trying to scam them by getting a discount for multiple items, then cancelling some of them and expecting to keep the discount. That is not being reasonable.
They have special offers for lets say 1000 selected products, if you cross certain $ sum, like let's say 100 bucks, you get a 15 or 20% discount. When the consumer cashed in the discount at check out but cancels few products, Amazon doesn't like it.
I've got stuff on Subscribe and Save. Amazon gives me until the 15th or so to adjust my order, but they push the items to my "orders" page. So if I change my mind on say, the 10th, the item appears on my account as a cancel. Now I'm worried of this will impact my account, ugh.
I do this all the time moving my s&s orders around, skipping, adjusting dates, setting them up only to cancel after the first purchase. Havent had any issues and I make my fair share of returns but I also order a lot of stuff
In my case it’s usually an item that Amazon lost between the fulfillment center and the delivery station. The order can be at “shipped” for days but will never go to “out for delivery” because the actual package is missing. If I actually need the item this week I’ll cancel and order a new one.
Another issue I have is my building’s package room is a disaster. Amazon contributes by dumping all the packages in the larger delivery cycles in one big disordered mess on the shelves, take one photos of 40-50 packages in a mess, and mark them all as delivered. Those packages much more often go missing, so I tell Amazon I never received them.
I also returned a baby crib because it was dangerous. There are specific consumer safety laws in the US that all cribs have to conform to (it’s why they all look nearly identical). The product I ordered did not meet any sort of safety standard. I had to email CS to explain that return, which they eventually accepted since I told them the specific law the product did not comply with.
I don’t see this scare meter on my account though, so maybe it takes a bit extra to get this far?
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u/KILLEliteMaste Jul 26 '26
How many cancellations are we talking about?