I tried out Paribus when it launched on ProductHunt a while back.<p>I was very uneasy about granting email access, but I did anyway. Turns out that they have trouble scanning my emails for Amazon receipts, so they recommend giving them my Amazon username and password.<p>No way I would ever do that. I can revoke gmail oauth access (which I did), but giving you my Amazon password also grants you access to my AWS account (not really because of 2-factor, but still).<p>Why would I trust them to correctly store & encrypt such sensitive data, just to save a few bucks on Amazon purchases. Not worth it for me.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty reluctant to let any company "View, manage, and permanently delete your mail in Gmail". Yes, I could create a new email address that I only use for purchasing stuff, but that's a big change.<p>This product looks cool, but I'm not seeing past the privacy issues right now.
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon, would be happy to get some money back.<p>My concern is that if I take margin away from Amazon, and a take up a bunch of their CS time using Paribus, Amazon will classify me as a customer they would rather not have. And then, say, cancel my account if I end up returning bunch of stuff later, as they are rumored to do.<p>So for Amazon, are price drop claims Amazon's official policy, or something that their CS allowed to do to appease customers? What kind of Amazon price drops qualify for refund?<p>Also, if setting up a separate account to forward receipts to, the email will be different than one Amazon has for me. Is this a problem for your automated emails going from that account?