[StefanJK]

  I was always under the impression that Amazon would close customer accounts that had too many returns. Have they gotten more liberal over the years?
 
http://slickdeals.net/f/908910-mass-closing-of-amazon-accounts-by-amazon?sduid=0&highlight=amazon

They did stop giving me no question asked returns on kindle books.  I using it as a free lending library...okay in my view, since there are no actual costs to Amazon (or publishers) in me doing so.  But it did stop.  No more 7 day looks at $150 books.

 

[forkboy1965]

Jason,
 
I have no clue what you're talking about when you get into the engineering stuff and I confess to getting a tad glazed-over when I'm only 6-words into such, but everything else here... throughout these many chapters... has been a most excellent read.
 
It's great to see a company who appreciates the qualities high-end components can bring to the music experience, but more importantly has kept its eye on a large swath of the modern audio world that goes mostly ignored, or so I think, by so much of the audio manufacturers: mid-fi.
 
One day, when I'm again gainfully employed and such, I'm heading over to Schitt and getting me some gear.  I want to step-up my headphone game and while it's not possible right now I'm hopeful for 2015.  I'd like to be part of the Schitt family.
 
And I just realized how funny that sounds...

 

[Ableza]

  They did stop giving me no question asked returns on kindle books.  I using it as a free lending library...okay in my view, since there are no actual costs to Amazon (or publishers) in me doing so.  But it did stop.  No more 7 day looks at $150 books.

You need to research copyright law.  The "cost" is in lost revenue from your unpaid use of the copy-written material.

 

[StefanJK]

 
You need to research copyright law.  The "cost" is in lost revenue from your unpaid use of the copy-written material.

That's a 'cost' since it is a transfer, not a cost.  Hence your correct use of quotes.

 

[Chris J]

That's a 'cost' since it is a transfer, not a cost.  Hence your correct use of quotes.

If you wrote a book and sold 5,000 copies you would expect to be paid 5,000 times.
If someone read it you would hope you would get paid.
Simple.

 

[senorx12562]

They did stop giving me no question asked returns on kindle books.  I using it as a free lending library...okay in my view, since there are no actual costs to Amazon (or publishers) in me doing so.  But it did stop.  No more 7 day looks at $150 books.

I think this is an unethical practice. The cost would be to my conscience.

 

[scansp7]

cant wait!

 

[scizzro]

I think this is an unethical practice. The cost would be to my conscience.

I'm in the same boat as you. It's akin to the crowd that rents CD's from their local libraries and rips them before returning. Just because policy makes it possible doesn't make it right.

 

[Ableza]

Back in the mid 1970's I lived for a few years in Idaho Falls, ID thanks to the Navy.  It's a nice little town.  Their public library had four or five turntables set up with headphones and a cassette recorder on each so that you could make a copy of the records they had in stock since they did not check them out.  I told the librarian that I thought offering that service set the library up for liability by enabling people to violate federal copyright law.  He was a bit shocked, mainly I think that some young Navy guy would know anything about copyright law... in any case he researched it and removed the cassette decks.  I'm sure I made plenty of friends by bringing it up.  I continue to be an advocate for protecting intellectual property.

 

[tonykaz]

Mr.Stoddard,
 
I had no idea Amazon was as good as you describe it to be, I thought it to be a place where women buy shoes from their work-place computers.
 
Why: Why would any person ( consumer )  prefer to do business with Amazon when they could work directly with the Outfit that designed and built the product they hope to own? 
Amazon is a Middle-man, a "know-nothing" middle-man, a cost adding layer of distribution, offering no words of wise council, offering no possibility of sensible advice, Amazon is a Robot for christsake!
 
I wouldn't trust Bezos with paper-clips, I'd urge my competition to sell on Amazon, phew.  Ebay's 20% makes more sense: Seller can control the entire process ( as far as I realize ) .  I figured you were willing to pay for the temporary bump in sales but would drop out asap, I still think that.  
People all over the Planet know who Jason Stoddard is, (Funny company name and all), you got "Major" word-of-mouth.  
 
Being on Amazon tells me that YOU don't want to take my next order, like you're abandoning me to an anonymous sales agency, cutting-off the access us the "unwashed masses" once had to your inner circle and that you feel your product has become a commodity ( like tooth-paste) that needs no In-house order-taking specialist ( $60,000 min. annual salary ).  I hope you don't offshore your order takers to India, pleeeeze but even that would be better than having Amazon as the only access portal.   ( sorry, I know, a bit of a rant, I'll let it go and won't mention it again)
 
I see you as a start-up, the internet snaps of your new location look nothing like the polished/glitzy video of Sennheiser's HD800 build & assembly plant in Germany, how could it?, you're just starting to get some traction.  
 
You're off to a good start, you got some Karma going for ya, maybe one hell-of-a-lucky streak.
 
My best regards,
 
Tony in Michigan  

 

[senorx12562]

I bought a chromecast from amazon as a gift for someone who already had one, so I arranged a return. Before sending it out, the intended recipient told me not to return it so he could regift it. When I sent amazon an email telling then to go ahead and charge my account, their email back said I could keep it at no charge. Love me some amazon, as long as i'm not a shareholder.

 

[madwolfa]

Amazon is awesome and I love it. However, Schiit prefers it direct, it's cheaper and no sales tax. So I've ordered direct (and Schiit could make a little more money as well).

 

[StefanJK]

If you wrote a book and sold 5,000 copies you would expect to be paid 5,000 times.
If someone read it you would hope you would get paid.
Simple.

Still, no cost to you if one of the 5,000 copies gets read by an additional person.  Also legal in the US -- once you sell a book anybody can read it and you can't restrict that (that's why libraries are legal).  You might want the 5,001th sale, but the doesn't make that book getting read by one more person a cost to you.  Nor is it per se unethical.    Not that simple.  Seller hope doesn't create ethics.  Nor does user hope.  

 

[StefanJK]

I think this is an unethical practice. The cost would be to my conscience.

Sincerely, what's your theory here?  I get why this is unethical for physical goods it costs to move, but as stated this applies to public libraries as well.  So are public libraries legal but unethical?  
 
Sorry, need to figure out how to use multiquote...

 

[Chris J]

  Sincerely, what's your theory here?  I get why this is unethical for physical goods it costs to move, but as stated this applies to public libraries as well.  So are public libraries legal but unethical?  
 
Sorry, need to figure out how to use multiquote...

 
If I wrote a book and 5,000 people read, then I would like to get paid for my time.
 
If I recorded an album and 15,000 listened to it I would like to get paid.
 
I assume your time has no value to you?
 
Seriously......................I think I need to stop posting with you.