{"id":30758,"date":"2017-05-06T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30758"},"modified":"2017-05-06T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:17:16","slug":"interesting-things-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/interesting-things-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"“Interesting” things on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wasting time<\/del> doing some really important searching on Amazon the other day, when I discovered that they have a button dedicated solely to “interesting finds.” Click on the icon, and heaven knows where you’ll end up.<\/p>\n

Some items are quite elegant and useful like this $39.95 canvas and leather rucksack<\/a>. I also found many lovely pieces of retro accent furniture.<\/p>\n

But mostly? Well … I give you:<\/p>\n

The Gummi Bear Skeleton Anatomy Kit<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The entire line of Cats in Space products<\/a> (I like the tee-shirt with cat, taco, and pizza slice<\/a>, but the entire line is … different);<\/p>\n

And the book How to Traumatize Your Children: 7 Proven Methods to Help You Screw Up Your Kids Deliberately and with Skill<\/em><\/a> (no doubt a huge hit as a baby shower gift).<\/p>\n

Selection changes daily. Hit Explore<\/a> and … well, it might lead you to a pair of pirate sunglasses<\/a> with mustache attached, a very 1950s armchair<\/a>, or toilet paper printed with $100 bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You could waste a shocking amount of time<\/del> find many unique gift or household items on Amazon’s interesting daily finds.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I haven’t been promoting Amazon since they nerfed the Associates program<\/a> on March 1. Initially, commissions didn’t take too enormous a hit. Oh, they got hit for sure, but not fatally. It just happened to happen that most of the large-item sales in March were in the handful of categories where the commissions actually went up. Those counterbalanced the otherwise dismal prospect. Since then, dismalness has been the order of the day, since commissions on most categories didn’t merely drop; they plummeted. I still didn’t intend to promote Amazon anytime soon; I’m mad at them and being petulant. But I thought the “finds” function was, and is, a fascinating way to waste time<\/del> find cool, unusual items. Like when somebody’s birthday is coming up or you have to get a gift for a bachelor party or a Halloween costume you can be confident nobody else will duplicate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was wasting time<\/del> doing some really important searching on Amazon the other day, when I discovered that they have a button dedicated solely to “interesting finds.” Click on the icon, and heaven knows where you’ll end up.<\/p>\n

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