Does Amazon truly know me?
From the latest mailshot from Amazon:
Dear Xbox 360 Fan, [...] Discover more for your Xbox 360 at Amazon.co.ukUm I don't have an Xbox let alone an Xbox360, I've never bought an Xbox game from Amazon nor have I browsed through my recommendations for the Xbox picking out those I'm uninterested in.
So why the hell does it think I own one?
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Amazon's emails are so bad that I told them to stop sending them to me. They just seem to pick things at random. It's nowhere near as good as the recommendations you get from the site, which improved greatly when they started taking into account whether you bought things as a gift. It's started recommending me albums and films I might actually be interested in, and much less in the way of other editions and formats of books &c. I already have.
I agree the recommendations online are normally very good, though I'm annoyed at times that it misses off some new items released off a series on occasion.
For items bought for others there's always the other option of simply unticking the box to not use it for recommendations.
I agree the emailings seem bizarrely random at times. Though it is a nice way to spot something you otherwise wouldn't have, it is a little pointless sending me exciting news about items I can't use.
For what it's worth, I never get mailshots from Amazon. Presumably because I hardly ever actually buy anything...?
that's me above comment got screwed.
Are you sure you don't just have "don't contact me" set on your account ;-) Thinking of some of the stuff you've mentioned buying I'd think they'd be scrabbling to get a piece of that action.
Oh I forgot the other annoyance - 'Hey you've bought this in hardback would you like it in paperback too? How about the one-disc edition of a film you've bought the two-disc version of?' Gah!
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