Someone tell me, in this day and age, with Amazon running a great deal of the Internet and Web and being one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, why I can’t have one default payment method for my Kindle purchases and a different default payment method for my regular Amazon purchases? WHY?!?
I like keeping my Kindle purchases separated from my everyday household purchases. It would seem to me it wouldn’t be too complicated for Amazon to allow for a separate designation since the shopping carts for Kindle and Amazon are separate. I know they’re separate because Kindle purchases have “Buy now with 1-click” enabled (and you can’t shut the fucking thing off). There is no other choice when buying Kindle books via the website. 1-click purchasing is an option for the rest of Amazon. If they can separate that why can’t I separate my payment methods?
Every time I buy a Kindle book, whether it’s on the website or on my Kindle, I have to go into Amazon and change my default payment method, make my purchase, and change my default method back. There are times I don’t make the purchase because I don’t feel like going through the rigmarole or I’m on my Kindle and not near a computer or my phone so I can’t change the default.
Why don’t I just keep my default payment method the one I choose for Kindle? Because I make more non-book purchases than book purchases. It’s a bigger pain in the ass to have to change my default payment method every single time I want to make a purchase.
There was a time when purchasing from Amazon was almost frictionless. It hasn’t been that way for at least half a decade. It seems the larger they get the less they care about the customer.
For the love of GOD. Give me the ability to have different default payment methods!!