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Amazon offering $5 credit for old Cloud Cams
18 points by cyberlurker 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I recently purchased new security cameras on Amazon. I used to have Amazon Cloud Cams, but Amazon discontinued supporting them and essentially made them useless. I’m a tech hoarder so I kept them in my box of future projects I will never work on. I wasn’t too angry because they sent me free Blink cameras to replace them.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531783

Anyway, I just wanted to highlight that Amazon offered me $5 to ship my old Cloud Cams back to them. Not sure what they are going to do with them, hopefully recycle them somehow. But I think it’s worth highlighting that companies SHOULD be doing this and collecting old tech to reduce waste. So kudos.




Wouldn't be surprised if they got wind of some effort to repurpose/reuse them, and calculated that paying $5/user now is cheaper than users having non-Amazon-locked cameras which would reduce their likelihood of ever getting an Amazon-locked camera again.




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