{"id":747,"date":"2013-03-21T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=747"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:37:16","slug":"i-think-amazon-is-just-trolling-us-all-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"I Think Amazon Is Just Trolling Us All, Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-771\" alt=\"bezos\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bezos.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"238\" \/>I like to poke a bit of good-natured fun at Amazon, for doing things like <a title=\"Oh, Settle Down, Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=296\">being all jerky and offering coupons for people who scan items in someone else&#8217;s store, the buying it from Amazon<\/a>, or for <a title=\"Oh, Amazon, Really Now?\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=357\">yanking books by people arguing with<\/a>, or <a title=\"I Won\u2019t Even Say It, Amazon, \u2018Cause You Never Listen to Me Anyway\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=731\">trying to patent reselling used electrons<\/a>.\u00a0 I mainly do it because Amazon is such an enormous, fat, juicy target, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/02\/18\/172286614\/book-news-amazon-fires-german-security-firm-after-claims-of-intimidation\">hiring folks with neo-nazi ties to keep German warehouse workers in line<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57573504-93\/book-publishers-blast-amazons-plan-to-control-domain-names\/\">trying to gain control of the very &#8220;.book&#8221; domain itself<\/a>, I think it is pretty clear that Jeff Bezos is just funnin&#8217; us all.\u00a0 Which makes a certain amount of sense, I suppose.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got a massive organization bordering on monopsony that is somehow still not actually making any money, what else could it be for but a whacky joke machine?<\/p>\n<p>Either that, or it is simply there to create the resources that can be used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bezosexpeditions.com\/engine-recovery.html\">track down historic rocket engines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to poke a bit of good-natured fun at Amazon, for doing things like being all jerky and offering coupons for people who scan items in someone else&#8217;s store, the buying it from Amazon, or for yanking books by people arguing with, or trying to patent reselling used electrons.\u00a0 I mainly do it because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}