Amazon has the dumbest recommendations

[sith_killer_99]

Here's a statement that came up after a search:
YES! I want to learn how!

That is just too funny!

[Bel-Cam Jos]

This wasn't on Amazon (maybe it was Danube ), but in looking for new Vintage 2011 SW figs (specifically the Echo Soldier), this was the category tree for it (once I clicked on the auction):

Toys & Hobbies >
Action Figures >
Transformers & Robots >
Transformers >
Marvel Crossovers

Yeah. That makes perfect sense.

[Bel-Cam Jos]

I had a "personal" recommendation from a site, addressed to %% FIRSTNAME %%. Yes! That's me! I have a fir$t name, too! $ell me $omething now!

[Bel-Cam Jos]

I had a local deals email the other day, a combo deal: gourmet popcorn at a sale price, and a 4-night trip to Cabo.

[Bel-Cam Jos]

While not from Amazon, I got an email from a rewards program to a store at which I seldom shop for more than $20 total in a year:

You will receive your Rewards Certificate after the end of the Rewards period if you earn $10 or more.
There is still time to add to your Rewards amount.
Here is your Rewards status as of
January 09, 2013
Reward Amount $0
Reward Period 1/1/13 - 3/31/13

[Bel-Cam Jos]

Barnes & Noble stores, when you buy in their "stores" (like a website, if they built walls and a roof around the search bar and links, or shopping cart and checkout screens) they print out "You May Also Like..." receipts. I got these recommendations:
Star Wars Fate of the Jedi #7: Conviction by Aaron Allston
Apocalypse: Star Wars (Fate of the Jedi) by Troy Denning
Star Wars Fate of the Jedi #9: Apocalypse by Troy Denning
Star Wars Fate of the Jedi #6: Vortex by Troy Denning
Star Wars The Old Republic #2: Deceived by Paul S. Kemp

Nice that they want me to buy the same book, with a slightly different order to the title, and if their systems had any tracking like everything else seems to these days, they'd know that I already bought all of those books, FROM THAT SAME STORE, including FOTJ #9 Apocalypse THE PREVIOUS WEEK. You're welcome!