HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[conuly]

It's okay guys. We can call off the boycott. Nothing malicious was intended, nosirree - it was just a simple code glitch!

You know, I like to admit when I'm wrong. I mean, I hate to admit it, but I do it anyway because that's the honest thing to do. Admitting when you've fucked up royally is not only good for your conscience, it's good for your life. People remember when you've spoken to them honestly, and they think better of you for it. Why, it helps to erase some of the stigma of having been wrong in the first place!

Which is why I would like to heartily extend my apologies to Amazon for daring to think they'd ever do anything so underhanded and dirty as this. Clearly they only have our best interests at heart. How can they possibly be blamed for a weird glitch that only targets one set of books? It's not their fault!

I'm sorry.





Oh, I can't keep it up! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *snrk* I can't! It's too funny! I can't wait until they try to spin those emails saying just the opposite either. Poor customer service guys. They're in for it now!

Comments

[l33tminion]

This is why you shouldn't put people who have no idea what's going on in charge of the press releases. I hope it's at least a "glitch" in the "those responsible for the glitch have been sacked" sense.

[conuly]

It's going to be those poor support drones who lose out, for spreading what must've been the party line.

[l33tminion]

Not sure it's even that, support people tend to assume (unless proven otherwise) that things are working as they should. Suddenly delisted? Oh, that must be a policy decision.

(Clearly, someone was introducing their biases, but who knows if that was management or lower-level marketing or engineering people.)

I'd put down money that the first management (or at least part of management) heard of this was just in the last day or two, in the form "BTW, thousands of people are pissed".

[ironychan.livejournal.com]

Aw, nuts, I had $10 on "our site was hacked!!"

www.powells.com
www.chapters.indigo.ca
www.booksamillion.com
www.foyles.co.uk
www.bookdepository.co.uk
www.waterstones.com
www.play.com

[conuly]

Really? I was sure it was gonna be glitch from the start. Wish I'd started a pool....

[siderea]

The best line in all of this so far: "Glitch, please."