Amazon don't want my business

Around my way RM is a disaster with timely deliveries. While they haven't lost anything recently they will send me tracking emails where the day of delivery (tomorrow) is a work of fiction. When you don't get anything on their stated day of delivery have they lost it, delivered it to the wrong address or had no intention of delivering it by leaving it in the sorting office for their batch delivery once or twice a week?

Everi around my way have had the same delivery driver for years and the service is reliable.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:16:29 +0100, Nick Odell snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.ca wrote: [snip]

My protocol is a two year boycott for the first incident and sine die for a second.

When I said that it was correctly addressed, but Amazon delivered it to the wrong address, that should have been enough.

Ok, so basically selfish and emotional, rather than actually effective? Yup. That's the modern Left.

Exactly the same is happening tobme today, I don't have and won't install whatsapp, SMS claims I've used too many codes today, using private browser window exactly the same, suggests that I take a video selfie from my mobile including my passport ... no thanks.

Turns out I'd used a VPN to access imgur.com earlier, and thought I'd turned it off again, but I hadn't; the clue was that Amazon though I was in Canada.

@Jeff, could you have done the same?

It's amazing how many businesses think they are entitled to store these kinds of personal credentials on their (or Amazon's/Microsoft's) leaky servers on some random continent.

VPNs are more trouble than they are worth

I can't see how, Andy. I don't have a VPN. Perhaps something else triggered Amazon to play up. I've logged on several times since with no problem.

I just tried again and logged straight on. Every time now that I log on I get a text and and email informing me that someone has logged on to my account.

Umm. That generally happens when you acquire a new IP address from your ISP, or clean all the cookies out of your browser

The far end doesn't recognise you as a returning session and asks 'is that really you'

I've got a fixed IP address. I clean out cookies at the end of every session and have done so for years. Amazon have only started sending the text and email within the last month.

I only use them a) for connecting to customer sites b) for connecting back to home c) to skirt around geoblocks

There are two sites I use which always insist I enter a text message code, and send me an email telling me there's been a logon from a new location. I've had this fixed IP for at least three years, and never connected to these sites from anywhere but this room for more years than that. Usual places are Lewisham and Sheffield, but I've seen a couple of others.

Somebody out there is charging for an absolutely rubbish geolocation service.

In message snipped-for-privacy@jrenewsid.jretrading.com>, Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com writes

I've also got a fixed IP. Depending on which browser I'm using, with the same site, I can appear to be in either SE London or on the northern edge of Morecambe Bay, and that is simultaneously. I'm a long way from either.

Adrian

Is this because you have deleted Amazon cookies? Every so often I clean up my machine by deleting all cookies and site history which also tends to delete logins where the third party can keep you logged in for X number of days. I then do tend to get notifications saying that a login has been performed from a new machine.

Yep, I often get notifications after I've logged into a site informing me that I'm located at place X or Y which isn't where I'm logged in from.

I usually use my laptop for most purchasing and financial transactions and the laptop has no means of locating where I am.

Even worse are the companies who want you to send the original documents.

You may have enabled Amazon's two factor authentication.

Signing on to Amazon in a browser also generates a prompt whether to trust future sign-ons from that browser and maybe you answered no, resulting in subsequent authentication prompts. (I find that an over-aggressive ad blocker can hide this sort of dialogue screen meaning that you may never get to see it.)

"Starting in two weeks, passkeys will be required on a rolling basis for Amazon accounts. This will be required for all of your accounts, including Seller Central and Amazon.com. As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we’re increasing passkey usage to all accounts to protect against unauthorised access and fraud.

Passkeys are a secure, passwordless way to sign in using your device’s built-in authentication – such as fingerprint, face recognition or PIN. They can’t be phished or stolen, and they’re supported by most modern smartphones, tablets and operating systems.

Set up your passkey, as it will be required for every login after that date. If you haven’t set one up yet, you’ll be prompted to enrol. Your password will remain on file as a backup recovery option, but won’t be available for logging in.

We recommend setting up passkeys on at least two devices in case a device is unavailable. Passkeys sync automatically across devices signed in to the same Apple ID, Google account or Microsoft account."

(that went to my seller account, but presumably applies to buyers too?)

Theo