Bizarre Amazon Recommendations

[OdoWanKenobi]

I have to wonder sometimes about the logic used behind Amazon's recommendation system. It's come up with some seriously bizarre, but often time hilarious items for me. Today though, well this has to be one of the weirdest I've ever seen:

Seriously? Hello Kitty? Because I bought Game of Thrones? I.....wha.....does not compute. How the heck did these two items ever become associated?

 

[FPAlpha]

Maybe Amazon thinks you need something nice after all the bloodshed, backstabbing and amoral behaviour that is Game of Thrones?

 

[Sky]

Here's an old one I once got:

 

[Kestra]

Maybe there's something you don't know about Hello Kitty.

 

[WillsBabe]

I've never had any bizarre recommendations. The ones for me have always been frighteningly accurate.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Maybe Amazon thinks you need something nice after all the bloodshed, backstabbing and amoral behaviour that is Game of Thrones?

"You've been watching that ghastly Game of Thrones thing again, haven't you? I think you could benefit from something more appropriate. Don't you "yes, mother" me, I've seen your buying record".

 

[Starbreaker]

It's likely someone recently bought both items and Amazon thinks they would be awesome together for anybody!

 

[Kalontas]

I don't have an Amazon account, but I'm going to through my Allegro one (a local e-shop) and check out for something... curious.

Though any bizarre Amazon recommendation I've heard of have almost all been suspiciously down the list... as in, the script clutching at straws to put that many items on the list. Cut it some slack, eh? :P

 

[RoJoHen]

I've never had any bizarre recommendations. The ones for me have always been frighteningly accurate.

Same here. 90% of the time they recommend things that I already own.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Amazon wants you to learn to share your game.

 

[captcalhoun]

what annoys me is when they recommend me stuff on the basis of stuff i bought for other people.

"oh, you bought Lewis season2, you want to buy Midsomer Murders then"

no i bloody don't, cuz i don't like murder mysteries.

 

[Miss Chicken]

^^^ That is easy to correct by marking books that you have bought for gifts as "Do not use for recommendations". My best friend gets me to order vampire books for her and unless I do this I get some awful recommendations.

 

[Kestra]

Yeah, I do that for textbooks and such.

 

[Miss Chicken]

One of the worst recommendations I ever got was for "Flowers in the Attic" a movie I downright detest. Strangely this recommendation was based on the fact that I own the movie "Alive" (about the Andes Survivors). I can see connection at all between these two movies.

I also hate the fact that they reccomendation multiple versions of something. i buy an Icelandic saga and get 20 or so recommendations for various versions of the Icelandic Eddas.

 

[Lumi]

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!?

 

[Valin]

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."

 

[Deranged Nasat]

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."

Star-crossed lovers; conceptual physics...I can see the tortured train of "thought".

 

[PsychoPere]

Here's an old one I once got:
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It would have made more sense if it was because you owned "Hamlet." [...]

Star-crossed lovers; conceptual physics...I can see the tortured train of "thought".

With the mention of a "reader's guide" for Romeo & Juliet, I wonder if the recommendation was due to a high number of students purchasing the physics textbook and the reader's guide version at the same time.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

It would have made more sense if it was because you owned "Hamlet." [...]

Star-crossed lovers; conceptual physics...I can see the tortured train of "thought".

With the mention of a "reader's guide" for Romeo & Juliet, I wonder if the recommendation was due to a high number of students purchasing the physics textbook and the reader's guide version at the same time.

Logical .

 

[farmkid]

Maybe there's something you don't know about Hello Kitty.

Or maybe something you don't know about yourself.