The most common type of submission Error’d receives
are simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The text
doesn’t match the image, the pricing is goofy, or some
other mixup that are just bound to happen with a database
of zillions of products uploaded by a plethora of
barely-literate mountain village drop-shippers.
So I don’t usually feature them, preferring to find something
with at least a chance of being a creative new bug.
But I uncovered a story by Mark Johansen about his favorite
author, and decided that since so many of you obviously DO think
online retail flubs are noteworthy, what the heck.
Here is Mark’s plain-text story, and a handful of bungled
products. They’re not exactly bugs, but at least some of
them are about bugs.
“I guess I missed your item about failings of AI, but here’s one of my favorites:
Amazon regularly sends me emails of books that their AI
thinks I might want to read, presumably based on books
that I’ve bought from them in the past. So recently I
got an email saying, “The newest book by an author you’ve
read before!” And this new book was by … Ernest Hemingway.
Considering that he died almost 60 years ago, it seemed
unlikely that he was still writing. Or where he was
sending manuscripts from.
Lest you wonder, it turned out it was a collection of
letters he wrote when he was, like, actually alive. The
book was listed as authored by Ernest Hemingway
rather than under the name of whomever compiled the letters.”
What do we all think? Truly an Error’d, or just some publisher
taking marketing advice from real estate agents? Let me know.
A while back,
Christian E.
“Wanted to order some groceries from nemlig.com. So I saw the free (labelled GRATIS) product and pressed the info button and this popped up. Says that I can get the product delivered from the 1st of January (today is the 2nd of march). Have to wait for a while then…” Not too much longer, Christian.
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Reliable
Michael R.
muttered
“msofas either have their special math where 5% always is GBP10 or they know already what I want to buy.”
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“Do not feed to vegetarians.” warns
Jeffrey B.
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“Not sure how this blue liquid works for others, but there has been no sucking here yet,” reports
Matthias.
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“Nice feature but I am not sure if it can fit in my notebook,” writes
Tiger Fok.
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Lady-killer
Bart-Jan
is preparing for Friday night on the town, apparently. Knock ’em dead, Bart!
“It says ‘Fragrance for Men’. Which is fine, as long as
it also does a good job deterring the female mosquitoes.”
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