talkingtab

I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price"

My first thought is that it was insane. My second thought was that they must be going broke to make this kind of change. Maybe there is some other reason, but I'm wondering if I need to find an alternative.

Oh and in order to comment on this post you need to put it in your cart first! :-)

I have recently had a whole series of amazon shipping failures. I order a set of 16 packages, got one. Talked to customer service got one again. Ordered a thing that said it would arrive on Tuesday, once I bought it, the order said Friday (+3 days). My last small order is lost in a maze of shipping status messages that are clearly fantasy. It said it was to be delivered the next day, but had not really shipped. Now seems to be lost and Amazon only can deal with delivered items. It has no option for help with items lost in delivery.

My sense is that the fantasy of Amazon is now falling apart. They provide shipping status that is dishonest. Is this just an unlucky streak for me? Do they not like me anymore? Or is it for everyone?

One of the things that is stupid about the internet is domain name squatting. People find a potentially good domain name, buy it, have it sit there and maybe someone will buy it so you make an enormous profit.

We need a way to fix this. A lookup site to find and disambiguate entities on the internet. For example what if I could type in to Firefox the name of my old friend fred jones and find not fredjones.com but some way to first find the right fred, then creating a personal for-me-only mapping of the site and "fredjones"

Do you have any thoughts about this?