{"id":1660,"date":"2006-09-17T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T12:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/09\/when_automated\/"},"modified":"2006-09-17T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T12:15:24","slug":"when_automated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/when_automated\/","title":{"rendered":"When Automated Systems Don&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has a feature whereby it examines your previous buying record and recommends new products of a similar nature. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s similar to &#8220;Customers who viewed this item also viewed&#8221; really.<br \/>\nExcept that today I got the opportunity to buy the new Le Carr&eacute; novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0340935200\">The Mission Song<\/a> for the bargain price of &pound;30! Except that it would have been better if it had pointed to this version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mission-Song-John-Carre\/dp\/034092196X\">The Mission Song<\/a> at the rather more attractive price of &pound;8.99 and which is currently sitting at no. 12 in the sales rank.<br \/>\nNo doubt the pricier volume is either some kind of special edition or a foreign copy. It&#8217;s not clear on Amazon.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s quite amusing that I got this warning from Amazon at all following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001771.html\">my previous complaint<\/a> that they don&#8217;t have an automated system to let me know about new books by selected favourite authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has a feature whereby it examines your previous buying record and recommends new products of a similar nature. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s similar to &#8220;Customers who viewed this item also viewed&#8221; really. Except that today I got the opportunity to buy the new Le Carr&eacute; novel, The Mission Song for the bargain price of &pound;30! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}