Since my blu ray player is a US import I have to be very very careful about which discs I buy.I either choose US region or multi-region discs, since there is no easy way to make a blu ray player recognise all discs (yet!)Unfortunately Amazon haven't updated their website to take into account the Blu Ray regions.Any film released on blu ray will end up with a DVD region listed … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Blu Ray Listings Are Broken!
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A Bad Week For Amazon
Amazon.com had issues last week, but today it's Amazon UK's turn.How long it was down for is unclear, but several people, including myself, got an unhelpful "service unavailable" message when trying to access the site earlier this evening.It just goes to show - 100% uptime is a myth :) … [Read more...] about A Bad Week For Amazon
Amazon.com Suffering Serious Outage
Amazon's main site, Amazon.com, has been down for the last hour or more. Currently some sections of the website are available sporadically.The really scary thing is that based on their reported revenues every minute of downtime equates to about $31000 of lost revenue!Now that is really mission critical!In the meantime you might amuse yourself looking at some of the craziness in … [Read more...] about Amazon.com Suffering Serious Outage
Amazon Phishing Emails – How Not To Handle Abuse
Either there's an upsurge in Amazon phishing emails or the phishers only got my email address recently.I've had about half a dozen phishing emails today purporting to be from Amazon regarding my "seller" account. To start with I don't have a seller account.The other giveaway sign is that although the links are similar to Amazon domains, they aren't Amazon domains.They all seem … [Read more...] about Amazon Phishing Emails – How Not To Handle Abuse
Amazon UK To Add Pre-Order Price Guarantee
One of the nice features on Amazon's US site is finally coming to the UK store - pre-order price guarantee.Basically if you pre-order an item the "guarantee" means that you are rewarded with the lowest price possible, so if an item is listed at one price when you order and it drops before the release date you'll actually get a refund.Pretty cool! … [Read more...] about Amazon UK To Add Pre-Order Price Guarantee