Amazon banned this shopper. Then he outsmarted them
Found on CNet News on Friday, 25 May 2018
A few years back, Mark started making electronics repairs for his fellow college students and ordered parts from Amazon. He'd return items that were the wrong parts or defective, but sometimes would send back stuff he'd ordered extra of and didn't need anymore.
A few months later, he got another email from the same address with some sharper wording: "While we expect occasional problems with orders, such large numbers of returns can suggest that customers are unaware of our return policies.
He set up an account with a different name, email and shipping address, and added a VPN to his computer to hide his IP address. He was back up and running on the site.
Mark isn't really smart, but a leech. Too many abuse the system because it is oh so comfortable to get orders via mail and return whatever you don't like. The same people would pick products way more carefully if they actually would have to get out and return the products to the local dealers and explain to them why they return it. Leeches like Mark don't only make it more expensive for sellers and Amazon, but create more harm on the environment too. So hopefully he will get caught and banned again.