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Wednesday, November 26, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

No Delight-O-Meter at Amazon this year

I got the following from CBSMarketwatch, and I think that the fact that there is No Delight-O-Meter at Amazon this year has to say something more than that Amazon begrudged using the real estate for something "nonproductive." That is truly bush league. Amazon is facing a couple new realities: first that it has grown into a huge company and, second, that it is now engaged in a struggle for market share with at least one entity, Barnes & Noble, which has both the will and the economic clout to make Amazon's life less than comfortable.

What really got to me, though, was the fact that nowhere on Amazon's website could a Business Week writer, Timothy Noah, find a customer service telephone number. However, that lack only spurred the folks at Business Week to dig through all Amazon's public filings untill they came up with the customer service number at Amazon. It is (or was--I haven't tried it yet) 1-800-201-7575. For those who must know the provenance of information like this, Business Week got the number from a quarterly SEC filing.

If you try it, let me know who you get on the other end!



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