[datguacdoh]

if you accept the discount, Amazon won't give you the full refund. my wife got caught by this, and customer support told her that because she had accepted the refund she couldn't also then request a full refund. It seemed crazy to us but I'm guessing the scammer is just using this policy as a way to steal a portion of the sale price. I'm sure amazon will catch on but it's just a cat and mouse game.

[uptown]

Interesting. Yeah, once they started changing the usual flow of the transaction, I knew there was no advantage to my doing whatever they were asking me to do, so I declined. Glad that I did. Thanks for explaining this version of the scam.