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I think Amazon is losing the plot.

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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    Just got an email from them:

    Quote:

    Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

    Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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    Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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    Don't be so negative... Give them a chance...

    "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg

    "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      Just got an email from them:

      Quote:

      Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

      Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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      0x01AA
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      All I can imagine is, Amazone recognized you run a 3D printer and you recently googled for a headset. And finally they mixed all that up with their AI algorithm. Now it is up to you to order a black&white headset ;P :laugh:

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        Just got an email from them:

        Quote:

        Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

        Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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        Lost User
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        I think it's related to the "HP printer infection" (W11 free ranging HP printer driver installs).

        "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          Just got an email from them:

          Quote:

          Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

          Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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          RickZeeland
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          Well, I just bought an Anker Soundcore Q20i wireless headphone and was pretty amazed by what it offered at less than 40 Euros, it even has ANC. A bit too much bass for my taste though, but with the equalizer in the app you can normalize that.

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Just got an email from them:

            Quote:

            Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

            Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            I think this is how marketing works: 1. get your attention with one thing 2. change your attention to another thing 3. confuse you so you are thinking about both things. 4. YOU WILL BUY BOTH THINGS NOW!!!! YOU'RE MIND IS CONTROLLED BY OUR ALGORITHNMSS!!! 5. Resistance is futile!!! 6. Logic is illogic and illogic is logic!!! 7. You will buy what we want you to buy. 8. All your base are belong to us :rolleyes:

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            • raddevusR raddevus

              I think this is how marketing works: 1. get your attention with one thing 2. change your attention to another thing 3. confuse you so you are thinking about both things. 4. YOU WILL BUY BOTH THINGS NOW!!!! YOU'RE MIND IS CONTROLLED BY OUR ALGORITHNMSS!!! 5. Resistance is futile!!! 6. Logic is illogic and illogic is logic!!! 7. You will buy what we want you to buy. 8. All your base are belong to us :rolleyes:

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              Richard Andrew x64
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              I've never seen it laid out quite like that, but I agree!

              The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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              • raddevusR raddevus

                I think this is how marketing works: 1. get your attention with one thing 2. change your attention to another thing 3. confuse you so you are thinking about both things. 4. YOU WILL BUY BOTH THINGS NOW!!!! YOU'RE MIND IS CONTROLLED BY OUR ALGORITHNMSS!!! 5. Resistance is futile!!! 6. Logic is illogic and illogic is logic!!! 7. You will buy what we want you to buy. 8. All your base are belong to us :rolleyes:

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                The cake is a lie!

                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                • R RickZeeland

                  Well, I just bought an Anker Soundcore Q20i wireless headphone and was pretty amazed by what it offered at less than 40 Euros, it even has ANC. A bit too much bass for my taste though, but with the equalizer in the app you can normalize that.

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                  I'm still fine with my Sennheiser HD<can'trememberthenumberandhaveLawOfTheCat> - they are 20 odd years old, on their second set of foam and wiring, still are comfortable and excellent sounding. They are however completely useless and printing stuff ...

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    The cake is a lie!

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    GKP1992
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                    And anything can be cake. :laugh:

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Just got an email from them:

                      Quote:

                      Hello [REDACTED], Looking for something in Webcam & Headset Bundles? We have some suggestions for you.

                      Then the message body is offering me these: "HP LaserJet M209dwe Wireless Black & White Printer" and "HP LaserJet MFP M234sdwe Wireless All in One Mono Printer" Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ... :-D

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      Daniel Pfeffer
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                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                      Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ...

                      They won't look good, either. :)

                      Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                      • raddevusR raddevus

                        I think this is how marketing works: 1. get your attention with one thing 2. change your attention to another thing 3. confuse you so you are thinking about both things. 4. YOU WILL BUY BOTH THINGS NOW!!!! YOU'RE MIND IS CONTROLLED BY OUR ALGORITHNMSS!!! 5. Resistance is futile!!! 6. Logic is illogic and illogic is logic!!! 7. You will buy what we want you to buy. 8. All your base are belong to us :rolleyes:

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                        Phil Hodgkins
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                        Also the curiosity poking email with the obscure item in the image with the unrecognised name at the top of the email. The thing is always the last in a list of other mundane objects they are really trying to push onto you. So I now start at the bottom find out what it is, and it's alway something that I have not the remote interest in, but I gain a little more knowledge so I think it might actually be from Amazon Education :)

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                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          Pretty sure those won't sound good strapped to my head ...

                          They won't look good, either. :)

                          Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                          Will probably cause neck ache as well.

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                            All I can imagine is, Amazone recognized you run a 3D printer and you recently googled for a headset. And finally they mixed all that up with their AI algorithm. Now it is up to you to order a black&white headset ;P :laugh:

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                            Angel Pais
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                            Start to worry when they offer you an Smith & Wesson headset. :sigh:

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