Posts Tagged “rants”

Is Amazon.com discouraging free shipping?

by JS on November 6, 2005

A couple of week ago, we placed a book order at Amazon, going over $25 in order to take advantage of free shipping. When I checked on the progress of our order the next day, Amazon said they weren’t going (…)

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Glass Cathedrals

by JS on June 16, 2005

(guest-posted by Mrs. 12frogs) If Maggie Gallagher wants to know how we’ve come to the point where the Michael Jackson jury could “[take] days to go through the ‘ton of evidence’ …that obscured the essence of what this case was (…)

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A Tale of Two Hardware Stores

by JS on June 2, 2005

Has True Value lost its mind? On their website, right under the prominently featured search field, it says: “True Value is no longer selling products online.” Uh, so why do they still have a website? Seriously. Say I see a (…)

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