Signing Up for Things by Mar Preston
Of course I know what Amazon is. It’s where I sell all my mysteries and how to write a mystery EBooks . But Amazon Advantage? What’s that? It’s the vendor’s side of Amazon. When I got repeated emails from Amazon Advantage to do something about my orders I wondered what now. I’m not selling anything. After they’d been hounding me for about a week I waded into Amazon Advantage to straighten it out. Don’t these kinds of problems just overwhelm you sometimes? I’m condensing about nine phone calls here. Stay with me. Yes, I did self-publish with createspace, an Amazon entity, but they have no relationship with Amazon Advantage and they had no phone number to communicate with them. Really? I’m told to call Amazon Advantage. The run around appeared before me. However, I had one bit of leverage. An unhappy review with createspace. At 6 a.m. this morning a nice fellow from South Africa called to say these orders represented a good thing. They...