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| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 Good readers, please carry onHurrah! Someone out there is paying attention to my book reviews and bought four Strossisms. And what's more, they followed my links to that nice Mr. Amazon's website to do so, thus earning me a commission. Now, what's stopping the rest of you? Sun, 7 Dec 2008 Amazon efficiencyLast weekend I ordered some stuff from Amazon - a USB memory thingy, and some DVDs. I told them to "group my items into as few deliveries as possible", to save money and also out of an embarrassing slightly hippy tendency to grumble about the waste of excessive packing materials. They do say that occasionally they'll split an order anyway, if part of it is excessively delayed, but ... They sent five packages, all on 29/11/2008, at 06:10, 11:52, 16:16, 16:41 and 17:02. It is obviously through efficiencies like this that they have attained their current dominance of the book/CD/DVD market! Sun, 14 Jan 2007 Dear AmazonYou're a bunch of cunts. Not only do you provide no way for me to export my wishlist to XML or CSV or anything useful like that, you manage to break all the third-party applications that do it as well. I hate you and hope you die. update: they had for no apparent reason disabled my account, although they were still sending me information about how to use it. It would have been nice if they'd told me. It would have been nice if I got helpful error messages back from the Net::Amazon module too. Thu, 28 Dec 2006 Amazon recommendationsToday I ordered a spoon from Amazon. This seems to have screwed up its recommendations system so now it seems to be ignoring the zillion bits of sci-fi, the zombie flicks and the metal CDs I've bought and thinks that I want:
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Well done Amazon, you score two out of ten. And what the FUCK is an omelette turner? |