[PLUG-TALK] More re Amazon
wes
plug at the-wes.com
Sat Sep 12 05:03:17 UTC 2015
Larry Holgate is our buddy from the clinic. You guys were probably working
on a problem some time in the past involving ordering something off of
Amazon. I bet you thought something like "I better keep his login separate
from mine, so I'll use a different browser."
-wes
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:44 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:
> I hate sites that greet me with "hi John! Look at all the stuff we know
> you won't be able to live without!" So for years I do my shopping on
> Amazon with Firefox where the entire Amazon domain is blocked from
> leaving cookies. If I really want to buy something I copy and paste the
> Amazon URL from Firefox into Opera, where I have no such restriction. I
> complete the transaction in Opera.
>
> Tonight I decided to buy five DVDs from Amazon third-party sellers. I
> pasted the URLs into Opera and added each one to my shopping cart. But
> when I went to pay I discovered that Amazon has suddenly decided that I
> am Larry Holgate, whoever he is. (Hi Larry! Glad to see you back!)
>
> WTH?
>
> I suppose I can ultimately figure out how to solve the problem, but
> they can't ship until Monday anyway, and it's close to me bedtime. I'll
> deal with it tomorrow.
>
> Meantime, if anyone knows Larry Holgate, there are five DVDs in his
> Amazon shopping cart.
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