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I noticed this as well recently while I was shopping for an SSD drive. A majority of listings are obvious frauds with no reviews. What I also found out is that there is no way to report a listing for obvious fraud, probably to avoid deliberately flagging competitors’ products, but which could easily done by taking into account an individual customer’s credibility score/reputation/history.
You would think so wouldn't you
Just because one is entitled to a bank statement as you understand this entitlement to exist, does not mean that the card issuer is obliged or interested in providing one within weeks or even months of the request, especially with the exact format that Amazon or another third party has decided to accept.
I have an online dashboard, and Amazon won't take anything other than a card statement with my card number (all but the four last digits to be hidden) and the billing address on it.
It's a simple top-up card, not connected to a bank account. I wrote "online bank" to simplify. What they offer is an online dashboard, a screenshot of which Amazon refused.
In any case, I didn't ask them to take me on my word, but to contact me and see if a different set of documents might be used instead.
Not all debit cards are linked to a bank account, some are just top-up cards (like this one – I wrote "online bank" for brevity).
Something very similar happened to me with Amazon. I used a new debit card from an online bank to purchase an expensive item and deliver it to a foreign address (which is admittedly suspicious). The payment bounced, Amazon immediately locked my account and requested to see a card billing statement sent to my home address to reactivate it. Upon login I am presented with a stern request for documentation, a pdf upload field, a tweet-sized text field for comments, and all communication comes from a noreply@amazon.com address. All my kindle/audible/etc media immediately became inaccessible.
I went through every possible channel to explain that the card does not send me a billing statement and I cannot possibly produce one, requesting to be called or at least emailed by a human, to no avail. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on Amazon over the course of fifteen years I couldn't even get a personal call from the case manager, and all my purchased media is gone.
To this day I have found no resolution, and the only next step is to contact them through a lawyer.
DJI nailed the ideal form factor for consumer drones (and maybe for quadcopters in general) when they came up with the original Mavic Pro. Since then they've been experimenting with incrementally smaller form factors to find a price and size where the truly average Joe will decide to get a drone to bring on his holidays, but I'm not sure that decreasing size will unlock a large number of new customers.
On my personal wishlist for future drones are more sophisticated and precise physical controllers with better pressure gradients, and especially the ability to program flight routes to allow mixed human/automated controls – e.g. "Respond to flight controls normally, but when I press this button 1) increase altitude to 90m over the course of 15 seconds 2) rotate camera downwards by 30 degrees over 15 seconds 3) begin rotating aircraft left by 1 degree per second"