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| December | 20 | |||
| When I arrived home today, Amy was reading the Dr. Seuss book How
the Grinch Stole Christmas to the boys. I began singing, "you're
a mean one Mr. Grinch...." When she said, "let's get the video for the
boys." I said, "yah, great idea." I cruised to Amazon.com
and Buy.com. Buy.com had a much
lower price. In addition, I ordered the book Code, And Other Laws
of Cyberspace by Lessig (I've been meaning to read it).
I did pause before ordering with Buy.com. Amazon.com has impressed me in certain ways. My first order with them was broken up into four separate deliveries; I received the final one today (the Green Power Ranger -- another $10 off coupon was enclosed). I found out today that they gave me a courteous shipping upgrade to US Priority Shipping for my Beatles figures order. In addition, one of the Beatles figures was listed as shipping in typically 2-3 days. Amazon, however, got all of the items out the door in less than 24 hours for me. I suspect that their database kept a record of their failure to ship the items from my first order on time (though I received the items near when I was expecting them because Amazon upgraded the shipping service) and they recognized how quickly I returned (and that I used a coupon) to buy again, and they wanted to "make it up" to me. Way to go Amazon -- you've earned Brucie. I was in search of cologne, so I visited both Ashford.com and ibeauty.com (this website exists -- sometimes it doesn't come up -- ?). I almost made a purchase; apparently, I was not motivated enough to make one this evening. My supply is dwindling, however, and I will make a cologne purchase soon. My 12th favorite thing to buy online is Tropicana Orange Juice. |
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