Comedy From Amazon
20 February 2004 · Last updated: 15 October 2006
So I finally made a purchase from Amazon UK, after checking other companies' websites for a product and finding the price dearer. After following the helpful registration screens I proceeded to browse a few other pages. They all had a line of text at the top which started "Welcome back MR C HESTER, we have recommendations for you". After repeatedly seeing this message, I caved in to curiosity and followed the suggested link to see what Amazon were recommending for me. But I had to laugh when I saw the resulting text. [Click on the thumbnail to see the full-size screenshot.] Even though I'd only just bought something, you'd have thought they could at least display a list of similar items! (Chuckle.)
Design firm 37 Signals have got a whole page of these dubious error messages in their section entitled Design Not Found. Beware, it's addictive viewing.
Useful Info
EMAIL: www.designdetector.com (replace the 1st dot with "@")
NEWSFEED: Subscribe to news of fresh posts and site updates. (RSS 2.0 compatible newsreader required.)
Disclaimer
Some links on this website lead to information provided by external services not under my control, therefore I am not responsible for the content or accuracy of the linked information.
All code examples are not guaranteed 100% free from bugs and/or mistakes. Use them at your own risk. I do not take any blame should a problem occur relating to use of code on this site given as an example for your own use. Such code has been tested and found to work for me, but I cannot vouch for other computer systems (existing now, or in the future) which it may be used on, or changes you introduce yourself based on my code.
This website is © 2008 Christopher Hester, except where separate authors are named. No part of this website may be reproduced or re-used in any way without my prior permission, except content added from separate authors (who retain the copyright on their material), examples of code, and any other content I explicity state is free to copy and make use of.
This page was last updated on 15 October 2006.
So I finally made a purchase from Amazon UK, after checking other companies' websites for a product and finding the price dearer. After following the helpful registration screens I proceeded to browse a few other pages. They all had a line of text at the top which started "Welcome back MR C HESTER, we have recommendations for you". After repeatedly seeing this message, I caved in to curiosity and followed the suggested link to see what Amazon were recommending for me. But I had to laugh when I saw the resulting text. [Click on the thumbnail to see the full-size screenshot.] Even though I'd only just bought something, you'd have thought they could at least display a list of similar items! (Chuckle.)
