Amazon’s Unbox service allows customers to purchase movies & tv shows for viewing on their computer or Tivo DVR. When purchasing a movie, you’re often presented with 2 choices – you can rent the movie for around $4, or you can purchase the movie for about the price of a DVD, about $20. If you choose to purchase the movie, a copy is stored in your “Digital Locker” and you are entitled to watch and re-watch the movie as many times as you’d like. Sounds like a pretty cool idea, right?

Not so fast.

Check out Amazon’s Wii purchase policy, found over on the Slickdeals forum:

Wii Purchase Policy
As you may know, the Nintendo Wii is in great demand, and there are shortages of this product across the U.S. In an effort to provide as many customers as possible with the opportunity to purchase a Wii, we are limiting the number of Wiis customers can purchase in a given calendar month. As a result, each household may only purchase up to 3 Nintendo Wii units per calendar month.

Failure to comply with this policy will result in account actions including, but not limited to:

Cancellation of all outstanding orders, including Wii orders and other orders.
Closure of the offending customer account and related accounts, including:
The customer account used for making purchases and selling items on Amazon.com Seller accounts
Any international accounts at Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, or Amazon.co.jp
The Your Media Library account area, including any digital products you may have purchased
Any Amazon.com Associates account or Advantage account attached to the closed account
When an account is closed, access to any Amazon Wish List, Baby or Wedding Registry, or profile pages is lost. Any purchase history, saved gifts in Gift Central, and digital products in Your Media Library will not be accessible. Additionally, any outstanding Amazon.com gift certificate or check funds balance will be unavailable.

That’s right – if you do something that Amazon doesn’t like, which can be (gasp!) simply purchasing too many of a particular product from them, they will CLOSE your Unbox account, taking away all of the digital content that you’ve previously paid for.

This is no different than Amazon sending an agent out to your house to repossess all books & DVD’s that they’ve sold you i the past, simply because the decided that you shouldn’t have them any more.

Amazon Unbox? Thanks but no thanks, Amazon. I’ll never use the service again.