Error'd: Friday On My Mind
The most common type of submission Error'd receivesare simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The textdoesn't match the image, the pricing is goofy, or someother mixup that are just bound to happen with a databaseof zillions of products uploaded by a plethora ofbarely-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 favoriteauthor, and decided that since so many of you obviously DO thinkonline retail flubs are noteworthy, what the heck.Here is Mark's plain-text story, and a handful of bungledproducts. They're not exactly bugs, but at least some ofthem 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 AIthinks I might want to read, presumably based on booksthat I've bought from them in the past. So recently Igot an email saying, "The newest book by an author you'veread before!" And this new book was by ... Ernest Hemingway.Considering that he died almost 60 years ago, it seemedunlikely that he was still writing. Or where he wassending manuscripts from.Lest you wonder, it turned out it was a collection ofletters he wrote when he was, like, actually alive. Thebook was listed as authored by Ernest Hemingwayrather than under the name of whomever compiled the letters."
What do we all think? Truly an Error'd, or just some publishertaking 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.
Reliable Michael R. muttered "msofas either have their special math where 5% always is GBP10 or they know already what I want to buy."
"Do not feed to vegetarians." warnsJeffrey B.
"Not sure how this blue liquid works for others, but there has been no sucking here yet," reportsMatthias.
"Nice feature but I am not sure if it can fit in my notebook," writesTiger Fok.
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 asit also does a good job deterring the female mosquitoes."
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