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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?

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  • 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.

  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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.