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What I'm reading
- Vintage Computer Ads. (Jun 28) ...
- Facebook Polls: Don’t Mention The Competition (Jun 2) Facebook Polls launched Friday night with a fair bit of fanfare. It’s a tool with a wealth of ...
- Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Gaaaa & Urrrggg at Target (May 27) Of all the Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connections we have seen, this is one of the longest. But, it ...
- CSS2.2 (May 6) The early pace of CSS development was pretty impressive. First proposed by Hakon Lie in Oct 1994, ...
- Avatar: the other you (May 29) New Scientist magazine's opinion section recently ran an article about a new book called Alter Ego: ...
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Where I'm going
- Green Towers for New York: Video Introduction (Jun 7) Neat video about green skyscrapers in NYC
- The Cube (1969) by Jim Henson - videosift richard schaal, experimental, psychology (Jun 1)
- New Scientist | Alter Ego (May 29) Photos of people beside their online avatars
- passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers (May 27) Passive Aggresive notes. You must read every one.
- The Mazda 3.141 (May 24) Why mathematicians shouldn't buy cars
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An Open Letter to Amazon
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Dear Amazon.com,
In April of 2006, I was on your site and you offered me a free trial of your Prime membership account. You told me that I could get free two day shipping on anything I bought. And boy were you right. I was buying things like crazy—when I can get stuff in two days at no extra cost, why should I ever leave home?
But then the trial ended, and you wanted me to pay $79 a year for the membership. You thought you could trick me by automatically signing me up for the membership when the trial ended, but I found the secret setting to turn that off.
What you don’t seem to realize, Amazon, is that I don’t have to shop at your store. I’m not willing to pay premium prices for the luxury of shopping at home. Didn’t we learn that when the dotcoms crashed?
I’m including a graph of all of my purchases with Amazon.com for this year. I hope you take a moment to look at it and reconsider how much you are selling your Prime membership for. Something in the less-than-eighty-dollar range would be better for me.
Sincerely,
Sean
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