My friend Heather over at Becoming Cliche put up a really well thought out post last week about the issues she’s been having with Amazon and her new Kindle Fire. That post was picked up by the Consumerist, and (while it drove traffic to her site) she’s since been having to deal with the comments of people who either didn’t bother to read the entire post, or who focused on the wrong part of it. The gist is this: she doesn’t have credit cards, she doesn’t want credit cards, and she should have been able to purchase Prime with the gift card her husband got her for Christmas expressly for that purpose…especially since it doesn’t say ANYWHERE on the gift card page that it can not be used to purchase that service. So many people (on her page and on the Consumerist) have decided that it’s her own fault for not having a credit card in the first place. THAT IS NOT THE POINT! The point is that her husband bought her gift cards for Amazon to use for this one thing because it doesn’t say anywhere on the page that they can’t. Why would her husband charge it on a credit card, when it was supposed to be a surprise…a gift? How was he supposed to put a subscription to Prime under the tree? He couldn’t! So he did the next best thing. Get. Off. Her. Back.
I guess the thing I’m most tired of is people who think they know it all coming into a situation and passing judgement. I’ll be the first to admit that I judge people, but I don’t condemn them on their own blog (or in the comments of other blogs) for it! I do it privately – snarkily – to my friends. The way it should be done.
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On a completely unrelated note, but still regarding stupid people…I’m a little over halfway through the last Earth’s Children book. I read somewhere that there was talk of a 7th book, so I went looking for information about it. In the comments of an interview with Ms Auel, someone said that these books are “a must read for anyone who is into paleontology and romance.” Paleontology? REALLY?! Hmmmm, maybe the books would have been better if there were dinosaurs. I imagine something like this:
