Comments on: Amazon multiple account weirdness

By: confused

confused — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:25:19 +0000

I’ve have this too, very weird! Anybody know what happens if you change both passwords to be the same?

By: Brian O'Neill

Brian O'Neill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:37:05 +0000

I did not realize I had multiple accounts, but on day I logged in with a different password and cashed in a gift certificate. Then I noticed I did not have prime shipping or an order history. So I was stuck with this gift certificate on my non-prime shipping account. I would have called Amazon but I didn’t want to risk losing one of my accounts.

By: immi

immi — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:47:50 +0000

Same thing just happened to me. Terrible, terrible, terrible feature!! – can’t believe Amazon would implement this kind of idiotic functionality. I have no idea when or how I managed to create a duplicate account, and frankly I don’t give a crap – the email address should be the primary key. Period. Also, the noddy on the support line decided to close the duplicate account, which resulted in me not being able to access anything. Apparently they are unable to merge the accounts into one account – that would just make too much sense I guess ! I’m still in shock at the whole concept of multiple accounts under one email address identified by different passwords. I have exactly the same question as you – what happens if I change both the passwords to be the same? I’ll try it after I receive the item I’m currently waiting for.

By: graham33

graham33 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:26:51 +0000

I posted this on comp.risks (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.risks/browse_thread/thread/cdb61f0adb537965#) and some replies added some more background (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.risks/browse_thread/thread/5a5c14444038528e#).

By: Wezzo

Wezzo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:53:53 +0000

I was searching the internet for info on this very phenomenon and came across this. My aunt has had the same problem, she couldn’t figure out why and I spent a good few hours trying to figure out what the issue was; in the end, she’d created two accounts with different passwords. Strange, very strange.