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TheCatWoman

Who looked for The Black Book of Carmarthen, also bought loads of heated portable clothes airers? This is course is according to amazon, I wonder if these are going to be pushed at me instead of airfryers now?

It seems a bit of an odd segue to me, I wouldn't be thinking about laundry when looking for mythical or semi mythical history would you?

  • Perhaps not many people gave looked for that book 

    If, say 10 people looked, 1 bought a clothes airer and the rest bought nothing, then that is the only link.it has.

    It could just be sparse data. 

    Or it could be that 5,000 people looked at the book and they all bought different things, save for 2 people who bought airers. So the most statistically significant purchase is an airer.

    I don't think it worries about the usefulness of the associations. It just gives you what it has. 

  • Well, people who bought that book also need to dry their clothes, so perhaps someone did buy both. In the past year I've bought lots of different things from Amazon. So if the algorithm was looking at my account, they might say one of these to a prospective purchaser:

    People who bought this concealer also bought a plastic bucket

    People who bought these headphones also bought fly killer

    People who bought this shoe rack also bought some batteries

    People who bought these towels also bought some plastic & acrylic polish

    or: People who bought this saucepan also bought this Blueray copy of "Ready Player One"

  • in reply to leveller61

    I love the smell of musty books. As I don't read romantic fiction I don't need an electric clothes airer.

  • That is so weird! Something definitely wrong with their algorithms. It's getting more and more annoying, sellers putting every single possible description on their goods. Surely they don't sell more this way, only annoy buyers. I would email Amazon and complain. You occasionally get a response.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Some books are a bit soppy, so maybe they are the ones that get dried. I find some non-fiction books a bit dry, so maybe they have been aired too thoroughly? Smile

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I've always had problems with amazon at certain times of the day, often mid afternoon, it goes slow and dosen't give you what you've asked for.

    I find many websites so hard to use and the forms to order something so difficult I just get totally put off and shut it down, then I get emails asking if I'd like to complete my order, thats an instance where things get told to eff off. Some sites don't like it because I have a house name and no number, sometimes they don't recognise my postcode either at all or that my house in that postcode, we're the first house in it. It won't take my landline only a mobile number which I don't know, I know I should write it down somewhere but I forget. If I do give my mobile number then it tries to send videos and stuff that my phone dosen't do and I don't want to recieve anyway and don't understand why I get them when I've clicked the no ads button, or not clicked it, because these things are sneaky and try and trick you.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I wonder if its to do with the war in Iraq? Are sites trying to make us buy stuff before it gets to expensive to ship it?

    It’s possible that goods are being pushed because of the war, although I’d noticed Amazon’s platform has been getting steadily worse over the months leading up to the war. 

    Online sites really like to make things difficult for their customers because they care more about pushing sales than giving the customer a good experience. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Well then, they should stop reading them in the bath then!

    I only really use amazon for books, apart from the odd thing at xmas and it's constantly trying to sell me other stuff, I have an adblock, so I get masses of "sponsered ads", usually for things I don't need and have no intention of buying, like airfryers and romantic fiction.

    I think the internets going mad again, I keep getting pages only half loading and not responding, stuff like that and then a bit later it will all be fine again. I wonder if its to do with the war in Iraq? Are sites trying to make us buy stuff before it gets to expensive to ship it?

  • The algorithms have gone crazy again or it’s just Amazon pushing diverse non related goods your way in the hope of broadening their market appeal.

    I could be wrong; perhaps people dry books.

  • Maybe it's just something that by coincidence is popular with the book's demographic. It's still odd, though