Thursday, May 8, 2008

Dear Amazon,

While I do understand that you are a multimillion dollar company, and you have large amounts of product on your website, and therefore obviously you can't necessarily police every single listing as you'd like, I do request that you require whoever puts your reviews together to be intelligent. At least make them capable of realizing that product descriptions that make no sense whatsoever need to be changed, and then act accordingly.

Sincerely,
Me

Backstory: I was searching for a book, "Turn Around and Run Like Hell", that was recommended to me by a friend. It's a book about unconventional - yet successful - military strategies. My local library doesn't have it, so I thought I'd check Amazon and see if I could look for the author, at least.
I clicked on the first result, and here's the entire product description. All typos, spelling errors, and errors in logic are theirs, not mine.

Product Description
The great global conflicts of the twentieth century from the seige of ancient Babylon to Caesar's campaign.


What? The siege of ancient Babylon and Caesar's campaign were....global conflicts of the twentieth century? Really? O....kay.....

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