OT: Amazon can't build a decent website

[Rod Speed]

Does for me with all the browsers I use, IE11, Waterfox, Chrome, Palemoon etc.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

When I studied at University, the local book shop had a 2nd hand system.= You could buy a new book (provided it was currently in use by the Univ= ersity) for say =A320, or a second hand one for =A315, then sell them it= back for =A310. It was a bit more complicated than that, as they had = a subjective quality test to see how much your book was worth, so if it = came back after the year with a lot of damage, you lost more money.

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

Ah they've fixed it! So Mr Mohammed did indeed report it to the technical department. When I last looked, the drop down on the top right did not exist until I'd selected a category.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Piano? Is that something like an electric keyboard? In the decades before television and the internet, many homes had a piano. It was a form of entertainment.

My only regret in life is not learning to play when I was a kid. I don't need a Fazioli or Steinway, just be able to bang the keys enough to entertain myself. Tried some years ago but did not do so good.

[Rod Speed]

rbowman wrote

Because it's a lot cheaper to employ Philippinos etc instead.

We have the bizarre situation where quite a few of the govt call centers employ immigrants from Ireland etc whose 'english' leaves quite a bit to be desired.

[Rod Speed]

That changed well over a year ago now.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I lack the coordination to pay piano. And I have short pinkies.

[Rod Speed]

And two heads and a microdick.

[rbowman]

iirc the college bookstore had a similar plan. It was rather a racket where a professor would produce a book that was then required for his course. Back in the '60s that meant you were dropping $100 for the books per semester and that's when a McDonald's burger went for 19 cents.

I think Amazon has some sort of textbook rental scheme now.

[rbowman]

We had an upright that I never did anything with. A church was going out of business and a minister I knew went over to load up some of the odds and ends. I saw an old piano and he said if I wanted it there was room in the U-Haul. We got to my place and two guys pushed it off the end of the truck. I was standing there alone holding it up but I'd be damned if I'd drop it.

There are some in town here and there on the sidewalk for people to noodle around with but I've never tried. Most of the stuff where I know the written music is for the Irish flute and is in G or D so I'd have to figure out which of the black keys are F# and C#.

[Huge]

+1

[Brian Gaff]

Can I say two things about the current Amazon sites. 1. They are at least accessible to the blind, however

2, they are too busy and cluttered. One almost gets the feeling that nobody has ever heard of sub indexing, they rely on sorting via a system that puts stuff into the wrong categories in the first place so you search for cd players and all sorts of other things with players appear in lots of different bits of their site. Its strange that an organisation who can make the Amazon Echo dot can also make a web site that seems to resemble my old shed. Brian

[Andy Bennet]

Works fine in Chrome - always has.

[Bob Eager]

But not until you have selected a 'department'.

[The Natural Philosopher]

What does that mean?

I type in 'mens underpants' and it list them by price.

Irrespective of 'department'. Whatever that may mean?

[Rod Speed]

And all the other browsers.

Nope, Amazon changed that relatively recently.

[Rod Speed]

Nope, no need to select a department anymore.

Do what he said, it works fine.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

And working for me too now. I guess it was just a glitch. I assumed it was a permanent fault, as they've always had a dodgy website.

It remains to be seen if they're competitive with Ebay though. In the past I've found 90% of things cost less on Ebay, and there's about 4 times more choice. Probably due to Amazon's extortionate (well they were when I tried to sell computers on there 5 years ago) fees.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Agreed, most websites are far too complicated. I can't imagine how much worse that would be for someone who's blind.

[Max Demian]

There used to be "exchange bookshops" (not talking about universities) where they gave you back half what you paid for the book. Then it was resold for slightly less than the cover price, dropping when the book became tatty. The store stamped their name inside the cover to identify it as theirs - unless you asked them not to.