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WileEC_ID
WileEC_ID Senior Member • Posts: 1,749
Short-sighted - the fail is on DPR and us

Simi wrote:

Just threw my kindle into the bin and closed my kindle account, discarding the content. I will stop buying from Amazon with immediate effect.

I‘m done with completely stupid managers and their decisions. This is just one other example of short sighted, profit-driven behaviour.

Thank you DPR team for your great and professional work over all the years. Will miss you!

Yeah right - you have so much info to make such wide sweeping declarations. What a fool.

If you're gonna be honest, you should recognize that DPR managed themselves - the failure is theirs and their customers, who failed to provide the financial support they needed. I suspect if we really knew the history, DPR would have vanished before Amazon stepped in - to keep it going.

Personally, Amazon is a great store for me - for photo gear and a ton of related accessories - and when i get a lemon - they are happy to refund my money and cover the cost of the return.

This fall isn't on Amazon - it's on us as users - unwilling to support what we get value from. Perhaps DPR should have recognized years ago, they needed to have a subscription model to support the many thousands it costs to support the site, the servers, and all the people it takes to keep a site this valuable going.

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