2/ ...and if you turn your account on, and do the exact same thing 3 minutes later, it gets turned off at a higher level, requiring a 10 minute phone call, and reciting from memory what vitamins you've got monthly subscriptions to & what year AND MONTH you first subbed to Prime
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3/ turns out that doing a $100k kickstarter + $30k more at Backerkit, and then trying to fulfill it all via screen scraping scripts that inject $40+k of orders at Amazon at > 1 / minute stress tests ALL SORTS of things - debit cards, Amazon heuristics, etc.
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4/ also, I think that I accidentally shipped
@AetherCzar two sets of the books when he ordered just one set, and@Sull2L got an extra Aristillus book for some reason. Spot checking stuff shows no other errors. Huh. Stress tested my scripts too, I guess. /shrugShow this thread -
5/ On the bright side, another $5,000 of orders posted to my credit card, so I paid that off ASAP this morning, and am now running a script to tell Amazon "every order that failed bc it couldn't charge? Try again w this credit card."
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6/ ...but then, on the cursed side, I'm getting about 10 notices per day from Amazon "it's been two days since we tried to charge this, and we STILL don't have success, so we're cancelling the order". ...so I'm going to have to write MORE code to verify order status of >>>
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7/ all existing orders, and replace any that have been cancelled.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbtZqEyE7U …
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8/ > does Amazon have APIs for this? not that I could find > Writing such scripts my dude, I HAVE ! https://twitter.com/sagar__dubey/status/1407679452860059655 …
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