That Crazy Amazon...

[timill]

So I was ordering a Bagpuss DVD from amazon.co.uk for Marcia, and added a couple of books to the list. One of them was "White Murder", by David Wishart, a detective novel set in Ancient Rome.

So, ... click, click, "Continue Shopping", Yes...

Your Recommendations: Books: How about "White Murder", by David Wishart?

Someone, somewhere, is Unclear on the Concept...

Comments

[miramon.livejournal.com]

You might find that it's just in the local cache. With Amazon I always do a F5 refresh after ordering stuff, adding to wish list or scoring them. It tends not to regenerate the list until you do so. At least it's better for books, some of the other things like electronic equipment just don't have the recommendations thing implemented at all - so it recommends completely inappropriate stuff. Also it has this habit of recommending things like a replacement battery pack for a different model of camera from the same manufacturer as the one I've got.

[timill]

It hadn't recommended it to me before, presumably since it's been in my shopping basket for ages.

I imagine it's a timing issue on the main databases - the recommendations engine saw that (1) I own a lot of David Wishart; (2) A Vote for Murder is in my shopping basket; and (3) White Murder wasn't on any list it checked. So it said: "Oi! You're missing one!"

But the juxtaposition amused me...

[technoir.livejournal.com]

Whats bagpuss?

somewhat bewildered there.

TechNoir

Bagpuss

[timill]

A childrens TV series of the 1970s: see this

Marcia was given a cuddly toy Bagpuss for her birthday by her workmates: hence the interest.

Re: Bagpuss

[technoir.livejournal.com]

okay thats just wierd

kind of like Sid and Marty Kroft stuff.