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Amazon Reviews You Can Use
8 Impressively Sarcastic Amazon Product Reviews (Part 3) | Cracked.com. This review is from: Officially Licensed Star Wars Luke Skywalker Ceremonial Jacket with Medal Of Yavin (M) (Toy) I used to be an unemployed movie theater usher, but that all … Continue reading
Amazon Loses $11/Year per Amazon Prime Membership
but more than makes it up in increased sales.
Amazon Kindle Fire is on its way
Someone asked if I was going to order the Amazon Kindle Fire I blogged about and that’s a roger. I ordered it the next day. November 15th is the release date. Amazon is saying mine will arrive the 17th. Kindle … Continue reading
Any reason I shouldn’t buy the Amazon Kindle Fire for my kids?
I’ve been batting around the idea of getting the kids a tablet computer for a while now. Something that’s easy for them to use, lets them play their stuff (Facebook-based Flash games and Poptropica, mostly), and that won’t get infested … Continue reading
Amazon Reviews You Can Use: Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife
Amazon Reviews for Wenger 16999 Giant Swiss Army Knife: By MechYeti Found this stuck into a stone while on vacation. I’m impressed with it, generally. Unfortunately, it turns out that removing it made me the new king of Switzerland, which … Continue reading
Word of the Day – The Vardi Paradox (of Web Site Value)
“The value of any Web site is in inverse relation to what it costs to attract new users.” – Yoss Vardi Found here, by way of Ricochet’s reminder that 1999 Thomas Friedman predicted the Imminent Death of Amazon.
Name-dropping Other Brands in Amazon Reviews?
Ironic Sans – Product Placement in Amazon Reviews for Related Products: I have a home theater system that needs speaker mounts. So, naturally, I turned to Amazon and looked at several options. As far as I could tell, no particular … Continue reading
Amazon vs. North Carolina: Amazon wins on privacy, loses on taxes
UPDATE: Uh, I got that headline backwards. Amazon won on taxes, lost on privacy. D’oh! Storefront Backtalk has the details.
ShopRunner: Like Amazon Prime without Amazon
Wall Street Journal - Retailers Team Up Against Amazon Several dozen U.S. retailers are banding together to take on Amazon.com Inc. by striking at one of online shoppers’ biggest concerns: shipping costs. Under a cooperative program called ShopRunner, launched on Tuesday, … Continue reading
Amazon Reviews You Can Use: Bizarro Comics
Amazon: By Bob S. (New York, United States) This am bad book. It am full of stories about Bizarro World, home of Bizarro, the handsome duplicate of Superman. Every story start with Bizarro Code: “Us do opposite of all earthly … Continue reading
Amazon Reviews You Can Use: Fresh Whole Rabbit
Amazon – Fresh Whole Rabbit: By P. Breakfield IV “Tom” (Greenville, SC United States) I’ll keep this short and sweet. We ordered one of these rabbits for our children this Easter and boy what a surprise. It is NOT a … Continue reading
NC may tax “digital click-throughs”
Amazon warns N.C. affiliates about tax issue. Amazon claims that if the legislation becomes law they’ll have to cancel contracts with affiliates in North Carolina. Presumably other affiliate programs and Google Adsense would be affected by the tax.
Nikon 35mm/F1.8 AF-S lenses arriving at Amazon
I’ve had one of these on back order since May and today I got an order update: We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on May 21 2009 (Order# XXXXXXXXXXX): “Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens for … Continue reading
Amazon reviews you can use
Collegehumor.come piece prompts hundreds of tongue-in-cheek Amazon reviews of cheesy t-shirt. Via Ace of Spades:”Anyway, this has become a craze, and the t-shirt is now selling 100 per hour, with the small t-shirt company attempting to crank out 30,000 a … Continue reading
Amazon reviews you can use
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz “Has anyone else tried pouring this stuff over dry cereal? A-W-E-S-O-M-E!” “Horrible service, I bought my milk and went with the 7-9 day super saver shipping method and it arrived warm and … Continue reading
Amazon Payment Subscriptions
Want to charge for access to your Web site, but don’t know how to set up the payment and access system? Enter Amazon Payments Subscriptions. Amazon handles the code and processes the payment, even re-using account information for existing Amazon … Continue reading
Companies bribing customers for glowing Amazon reviews
Consumerist: “After buying an anti-snoring mouthpiece from a third-party seller on Amazon, reader Bob received an email from the company offering him a free mouthpiece in exchange for a five-star review. He noted this attempted bribe in his Amazon review, … Continue reading
Because, like, who doesn’t totally love My Little Pony?
Last month I joined the Amazon affiliates program and posted an Amazon ad on all of the blog pages. These are Amazon’s smart ads. I don’t pick the items that appear; Amazon picks the items algorithmically based on my site … Continue reading
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