Bizarre Amazon Recommendations
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Same here.
Once, years ago, while I was considering Stargate DVDs, at the bottom of the page Amazon recommended I buy instead a book on anal sex. Glad to see their algorithms have improved. 
I'm still waiting for Amazon to recommend me the now legendary Paul Ross box canvas print. To date, it has never happened. My life remains empty. 
I've used Amazon once or twice, and don't get anything odd.
My boyfriend uses it often, and lately all he's getting are vampire/werewolf romance novels recommended to him. That's not odd though... he just loves reading them.
How adorable is that!?
Boy you know you're in love when that is adorable
For that matter, a recommendation of a basic math text would have made more sense.Here's an old one I once got:
It would have made more sense if it was because you owned "Hamlet."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
“A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic!”
This.
In fact, most of the recommendations they provide are for items I already actually own. That is how accurate they are.
Although, to the OP - recommendations come not only from what you have purchased, but what you have looked at on Amazon. If you have shown any interest at all in a product - even just to look at the page, Amazon will show you all kinds of stuff like it.
I'm guessing you might have a girlfriend, wife, sister or child who was looking at Hello Kitty stuff, cat stuff, or something similar under your name.
I'm still waiting for Amazon to recommend me the now legendary Paul Ross box canvas print. To date, it has never happened. My life remains empty.
I have no idea who Paul Ross is, or why there's a print of him for sale on Amazon (much less why it costs 2500 pounds
), but when I looked at that page, I got the following items under "people who viewed this item also viewed":- a photographic print of a woman rejecting a plate
- German regular Nazi Party flag
- a chrome-plated toilet roll holder and storer
- the Mountain Men's "Three Wolf Moon" t-shirt
- a cardboard stand-up of David Cameron
Is this one of those pages that's frequented by people who just randomly look for weird things on Amazon?
You get a good idea of the mindset from the customer comments below. The power of Paul Ross compels them.I'm still waiting for Amazon to recommend me the now legendary Paul Ross box canvas print. To date, it has never happened. My life remains empty.
I have no idea who Paul Ross is, or why there's a print of him for sale on Amazon (much less why it costs 2500 pounds
- a photographic print of a woman rejecting a plate
- German regular Nazi Party flag
- a chrome-plated toilet roll holder and storer
- the Mountain Men's "Three Wolf Moon" t-shirt
- a cardboard stand-up of David Cameron
For example:
Ah, Paul Ross, Jonathon's less successful brother - is he still frequenting the netherworld of daytime minor celebrity TV?
Amazon once recommended a whole slew of S&M books after I browsed several items on plate tectonics - perhaps they interpreted "making the Earth move for you" too literally.
Amazon once recommended a whole slew of S&M books after I browsed several items on plate tectonics - perhaps they interpreted "making the Earth move for you" too literally.
That is funny. My recommendations have been pretty good, especially since I recently excluded all of the gifts I had bought for people. It's actually kind of scary how well they know me. As I look down the list of recommendations I keep saying, "ooh, I want that! And that! And look at that one! Oh yeah that would be awesome!"
Nope. I am a bachelor. And it specifically states that the Hello Kitty was recommended to me because I bought Game of Thrones: a violent, vulgar, and sexually charged show.
And while yeah Amazon does make recommendations along the bottom of the page for stuff based on items you've looked at, the actual big recommendation list is based only on items you've said you own or have bought from them.
Some other weird recommendations I've gotten from them include:
Various power tools because I bought a few Nintendo DS games
Sex and the City on DVD because I bought Hellboy
I once dated a girl who was obsessed with Hello Kitty. She was violent, vulgar, and sexually charged.
Amazon's recommendations for me have been pretty accurate, often times things I already own.
Apparently, Amazon thinks that those who are interested in the TNG Next Level are also interested in the English Patient. Not sure what the connection is.
Patrick Stewart is English and there's some episodes where he's Doctor Crusher's patient?
Willem Dafoe and Colin Firth are Star Trek fans?
My Amazon recommendations can be rather odd at times because of the range of things bought and viewed on my account. My wife and I both use the same account, so we have things bought for me, her, and our children all on the same account. On top of that, I often go to Amazon as an information resource when I see some item I'm not really interested in getting because it is nothing I would ever use, but I'm just curious in what it is and/or costs. It's a rather diverse and eclectic list of items that occasionally produces some recommendations.
recommendations.
Had to resurrect this thread, as I've just received one of the best (well, worst) I've ever had:
Just think about it a moment. It will dawn on you.
Just think about it a moment. It will dawn on you.
Had to resurrect this thread, as I've just received one of the best (well, worst) I've ever had:
Just think about it a moment. It will dawn on you.
