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[Google] Bombs Away!!!
Apr. 12th, 2009 04:13 pmAmazon Rank
Also known as "pleasing your customers: you're doing it wrong". For further info, you can read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge's post. Also, you can read an article in the LA Times. For shorter reactions, just search #amazonfail on Twitter.
Clearly, it's time show some other booksellers a little online love--Abebooks is awesome, and other good West Coast indie bookstores are Kepler's and Books, Inc. (both members of IndieBound). Already have Amazon gift certificates and are now pissed that you'd be supporting the Man? A great suggestion I read was to buy just enough that you qualify for free shipping (hey, maybe buy some unranked books while you're at it!) so that THEY pay to ship it to you. Better than letting them have the money for nothing, I suppose.
In happier news, it is and San Francisco is quite pleased about it. It's adorable: men in wedding dresses, people with bunny ears and Easter baskets on their heads... good times. So happy Easter Sunday (or just plain old Sunday) to everybody!
I have no real goals for my day besides to chip away at the stuff piling up in my room, perhaps with the help of a movie or two. A minor irritation being I hate it when you go to the store and in the haste of buying something by the wrong "type" of a product... lotion Kleenex vs. regular, scented vs. unscented... and are now stuck with using it! Dang it.
Also known as "pleasing your customers: you're doing it wrong". For further info, you can read
copperbadge's post. Also, you can read an article in the LA Times. For shorter reactions, just search #amazonfail on Twitter.Clearly, it's time show some other booksellers a little online love--Abebooks is awesome, and other good West Coast indie bookstores are Kepler's and Books, Inc. (both members of IndieBound). Already have Amazon gift certificates and are now pissed that you'd be supporting the Man? A great suggestion I read was to buy just enough that you qualify for free shipping (hey, maybe buy some unranked books while you're at it!) so that THEY pay to ship it to you. Better than letting them have the money for nothing, I suppose.
In happier news, it is and San Francisco is quite pleased about it. It's adorable: men in wedding dresses, people with bunny ears and Easter baskets on their heads... good times. So happy Easter Sunday (or just plain old Sunday) to everybody!
I have no real goals for my day besides to chip away at the stuff piling up in my room, perhaps with the help of a movie or two. A minor irritation being I hate it when you go to the store and in the haste of buying something by the wrong "type" of a product... lotion Kleenex vs. regular, scented vs. unscented... and are now stuck with using it! Dang it.
