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If you aren't paying your bills, then you shouldn't be surprised that it gets shut down.
by CaptSpify 9y ago
If you aren't paying your bills, then you shouldn't be surprised that it gets shut down.
- leereeves 9y agoWho downvoted you for saying one shouldn't be surprised when an account gets shut down after not paying for 3 years? On that note: why hasn't the account been shut down for nonpayment?
- threatofrain 9y agoMaybe the debt needs to be groomed on paper before it's sold.
- jimrandomh 9y agoPresumably because that only happens when it crosses a threshold dollar amount, and $0.80/month isn't enough to get it over that threshold. (That price is too small for there to be a running instance; it's most likely for storage belonging to an instance that was shut down, such as a 16GB EBS snapshot. It is reasonable that Amazon would be very careful about deleting that.)
- tinus_hn 9y agoPlease don't complain about downvotes
- komali2 9y agoThe idea being that it wasn't Amazon that shut it down, but the fraudster.
- CaptSpify 9y agoI guess I fail to see the importance of difference. Legal reasons?
- komali2 9y agoAmazon is responsible for making a reasonable effort to prevent anyone unauthorized from doing anything to an account. Swap "shut down" with "read personal information tied to account" or "upload a heinous webpage to the AWS server," whatever. This is not one of those "by any means, achieve the ends" type scenarios.
- eridius 9y agoThat's not particularly relevant to the question of whether a fraudster should be able to shut down your account simply by offering to pay the current bill.