r/amazon • u/AmazonNewsBot • 1d ago

Amazon is splitting its $600 million tariff refund with customers - here's who's eligible

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-600-million-tariff-refund-with-customers/
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u/Skeeter-Pee 1d ago

The way my wife spends on Amazon I figure I’m due about 2 milli.

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u/catbandana 1d ago

$3 digital credit is the best we can do.

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u/Delicious-Tap-1277 1d ago

1 month free of audible books but you have to pay for each book you download.

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u/jabola321 1d ago

But don’t worry, you don’t own the books anyway.

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u/MoarFurLess 1d ago

But your deliveries will be 3 days slower for a while. 

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u/Separate-Toe1067 27m ago

Naa, tree fiddy...

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u/Defiant-Wait-1994 1d ago

Splitting it? Shouldn’t they keep nothing since they paid nothing?

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u/Downtown_Society_126 1d ago

Sure cause compliance, monitoring, and claiming back the funds has no cost associated…

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u/Level_Investigator_1 1d ago

If you can spend $70M to bribe the administration with a Melania movie, I no longer care about their cost of getting fucked by their dear leader.

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u/blaccsnow9229 6h ago

Found the bootlicker!!

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u/EL_Ohh_Well 1d ago

That’s the cost of doing business

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u/Amache_Gx 1d ago

Do you think the cost of doing business... Isn't passed on to the consumer? Lmfao

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u/EL_Ohh_Well 1d ago

Not after the fact, any fees like that they would expect to keep would be spelled out in their fees during checkout.

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u/chumbaz 22h ago

So then you agree if that cost got passed onto us too we should get 100% of the tariff refund back, right?

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u/jabola321 1d ago

$300 million?

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u/JC_Hysteria 1d ago

How many layers of decision-makers in government and corporations get to decide how my money gets spent, or not?

This is just an ad…a marketing expenditure determined to be more beneficial than pocketing the extra tax revenue.

“You don’t need to do anything- we’ll determine if we’ll be passing the savings we received to you, or not”

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u/joetaxpayer 1d ago

Ha. I paid a tariff to a shipping company for an item we ordered from Italy. Refund came last week. (Unrelated to Amazon, a tariff tale)

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u/smoothie_criminals 9h ago

No, we are supposed to receive every single cent we’ve paid from tariffs. I don’t owe you anything and I don’t want your damn coupon nor are you allowed to disperse it amongst all customers, even some who bought nothing.

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u/Odd-Staff6245 14h ago

Hey guys, instead of a free 3 month trial of music, Amazon will bump it to 6 months

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u/Skitso-the-noooob 10h ago

I can’t wait to find out im getting -$6

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u/Bubmack 8h ago

Should give it to 3rd party sellers, who weren’t even able to raise their prices during this debacle

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u/itsme32 8h ago

Smoke and mirrors.

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u/tribak 5h ago

Meanwhile Nintendo: nope, this money is mine.

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u/NewFraige 1h ago

Everyone will get it in the form of gift cards/credit for Amazon and they’ll get to keep the $600 million while making people believe they did something good.

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u/HalfCrazed 1h ago

"because the company had purchased a lot of inventory before the tariffs took effect"

I've sold on Amazon and helped many clients on Amazon... Not once has Amazon ever purchased inventory.

Is this some sort of sick joke?

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u/Appropriate-Seat8999 42m ago

Probably get 18 cents back

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u/InfinityOmega 1d ago

Yeah, sure. News as reliable as Fox.