People trying to get stuff for free that they’re otherwise supposed to pay for is nothing new. It’s also something many of us are tempted to do when it doesn’t seem like it’s actually stealing.
People trying to get stuff for free that they’re otherwise supposed to pay for is nothing new. It’s also something many of us are tempted to do when it doesn’t seem like it’sWhen my mom owned The Book Bin in Northbrook, she had a customer who tried to bring a book back for return, insisting he’d purchased it there. Unfortunately for him, she recognized it as the current title from the Book of the Month Club, and whoops! there was the Book of the Month stamp, right there in the interior.
How does she know this is happening? After hearing “rumblings” on TikTok about “hacks” for reading books for free on Amazon, Kessler noticed that some readers were returning not just one book, but an entire series of up to 10 books. As Kessler told me via email, if multiple series are returned, multiple times, that begins to add up.
I suppose it is tempting to believe that returning the e-book to Amazon is sticking it to the big corporation who charged a bunch of money for that Kindle device, but it is important to remember that the big corporations are big corporations because they figure out how to get paid no matter what. On TikTok, it appears that word is getting out on how damaging this practice can be, with only a few outliers who insist that if they weren’t satisfied with a book they read, they should be able to return for a refund.
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