Don’t know about or really trust this.
But today I did try to register some kind of complaint with Amazon. Here’s how it went;
1. Sent email through their ‘Customer Problem’ auto-page.
2. Got a damn-near incomprehensible reply from some dude name ‘Aghib’, probably from India or some such who just translated my query, typed something, auto-translated that into English and sent it off.
3. Called and talked to ‘Kathy’ in Costa Rica, who hasn’t heard of this problem before, but she gave me Jeff Bezos’ personal email; jeff@amazon.com
4. Called again and talked to some girl in Kentucky this time who said that she has fielded a few calls about this, ‘from both sides of the issue’. She was a little flummoxed when I asked why anyone who agreed with the move would call the customer complaint lines.
I suppose I will try emailing jeff@amazon.com tomorrow. I’m just a little tired of this issue tonight.
When I called, yesterday, my foreign representative told me he had no idea why - nor had he heard anything about - the confederate flags being removed. (I chuckled when I had to spell confederate for him.)
I said, “well, they’re being removed, as listings, as we speak”. He said, “I am so sorry...I will report this to management. They normally post something on the homepage, when we remove items, like this”.
I called Amazon at 1-888-280-3321. A man who clearly spoke English listened to my rant. I was proud of my ‘speech’ because I stayed on point and he actually listened. I feel good that I spoke up for freedom, including THE FREEDOM TO OFFEND.
This is a copy of the email I sent them:
You have numerous items of clothing, Jewelry, and even comic books celebrating the most horrific mass murderers of all time, including Hitler and Stalin, but you refuse to sell the Battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, other wise known as the Confederate flag. I find that incredibly ridiculous.