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Amazon Suggested Items…You’re Kidding Me, Right?

I’m sure you’ve noticed when buying stuff on Amazon that they will provide “suggestions” of related items commonly purchased…just to help you out…right? Ha! Yeah…right. Well I was recently purchasing an item on Amazon and this was their recommended “Frequently Purchased Together” list of products…

Makes sense to me...

Makes sense to me…

So according to Amazon, they must have a lot of customers that need to purchase ear plugs, gift cards, and a Fire HD 7…all at the same time. Yeah…right…and I have some real good land I want to sell you in the north east part of Florida. I guess I can’t blame Amazon for trying, but really…can’t your complex (and powerful) computer algorithms do a better job than this?

In case you are wondering…I didn’t bite.