Excuse me! Let's not belabor this. As far as I can tell, all this discussion is based upon a mixture of hearsay, observations, assumptions and opinions, and a few "known" facts about the guts of an Echo and Dot; what they can and cannot do, and what some people think and wish they could do, etc. I hope their wishes come true! Frankly, I do not care that much about the issue; I only offered my opinion, TOO. I have the gadgets from Amazon I want and need, they work and I am happy; even with Amazon. . . Apparently, their order computer had a big glitch this afternoon, because I got an Amazon email that some gadget I ordered today was being prepared to ship to me (a gadget I never ever heard of, or ordered). I called Amazon customer service right away, told them neither I nor anyone in the household had ordered it and to cancel it, which they did, no problem. Nothing was ordered from them today on my account. My big concern was perhaps someone got my account info and ordered it for themselves, but since it was flagged to ship to my address, that eliminated any hanky panky at my account. Just some sort of glitch happened.
Since it has happened to me, it could happen to anyone.