Amazon bans Scott Adams 'for life' ahead of new book launch...“I get no response when I ask who they think owns it."

Post Millennial ^ | August 16, 2023 | Staff

[TangoLimaSierra]

This has worked for me before in a customer service problem.
Don't know if it will work cold, but doesn't hurt to try.

Not my number BTW. Here's the URL

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Corporate tyranny.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Excellent. I just added the “Call Me” URL to my Amazon contacts. That looks very helpful. Looks like it will work cold.

[Graybeard58]

But they have the nicest chains and so cheap too so keep doing business with them!

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Some people would complain if they were being hanged with a brand new rope.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Even if it is silk. :)

[Moltke]

Bought books from Amazon 20+ years ago, when they were still selling mostly books.

These days it’s become the most annoying platform I can think of. Always in your face at the top of any search result (google, duckduck,...), and when I rarely do click on one of their offers, it takes me to a different product! And when I find the correct product, the presentation sucks, with vital information either not there or obscurely hidden.

F Amazon, long and hard.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Thanks. I’ll hang onto this.

[Bernard]

In the big picture, let's keep in mind that Amazon is a 600-pound gorilla in the market, by basically being the on-line successor to Sears, Roebuck & Com. When is the last time you bought anything from Sears, let alone walk into a Sears store?

All giants start out small, then grow to the point where they forget what got them there. See Bud Light for more details.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Always in your face at the top of any search result (google, duckduck,...)

They pay for that. They pay so that other sites are pushed off the front page because they know that people are lazy and will not go beyond the first page.

They used to be honest about it with a "paid ad" marking but now they shove it up there.

[Moltke]

Thanks, I know it's paid advertising and/or algorithms that push search results to the top (bastard bullies pushing their way to the front of the line - because they have the deep pockets to do so). Should've been more clear on that point.

I still hate Amazon with a vengeance, though, these days. 😀

[Myrddin]

My oldest son worked at the local Sears before he died in May 2012. The store is a charter school now.

[Myrddin]

There are MANY complaints about Chinese manufactured product with defects and no way to contact the manufacturer to get parts.

Some of the Chinese product is good quality. Stuff on the low end needs careful scrutiny. I ordered a 49:1 un-un to build an End Fed Half Wave antenna. Some of the other buyers posted reviews warning of shoddy workmanship. Upon receipt, I popped the cover. Yup. Shoddy. Loose parts in the box and terrible solder joints. I rebuilt it. Put a 2400 ohm resistive load on it and did a sweep from 1 MHz to 30 MHz. Good, clean results. I suspect the party who built it lacked the skills to do it right.

[Bernard]

My son passed last year, and he worked at a local Sears while he was in high school. We moved from the area 11 years ago, and I have no idea what is in that building now.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The “NUUK” patio cart is actually very high quality. The first one I received had the three manufacturing defects indicating poor quality control. The second one was perfect. The packaging of the heavy table parts was absolutely superb, too. Heavy large corrugated cardboard nestled every part together. No parts were loose, rolling around or banging into each other. Everything was well protected.

We’ll see how long the stainless steel top and shelf last.

[Myrddin]

Condolences. Sears in Pocatello was a good employer for my son. It was just over a mile from the house and he often walked to work when the weather was nice.

[Myrddin]

I've purchased a nanoVNA (network vector analyzer) and an LCR (inductance, capacitance, resistance) tester. Both Chinese produced. Good value. I have a 250 MHz dual channel scope on my wish list. Good reviews. China sourced. Specs look as good as the Tektronix 475 I used in the late 70s at my place of employment. $350 from Amazon.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

$350 — compared to that old 70s Tektronix for what? Maybe $20,000 at the time?

[Billthedrill]

Adams announced this morning:

An email from Amazon KDP says they reversed their decision (without explanation) so Reframe Your Brain is back on track.

I just checked. It's available now.

[Myrddin]

Thankfully I didn't have to buy the Tektronix 475 in 1977. It was the "go to" shop scope for phasing RG213 cable used for the Adcock ADF loops on tuna seiners. Top shelf for doing bench repair of the electronics gears on the boats as well.