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Amazon's algorithms - a chamber pot

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Icabod · 19/12/2023 22:29

I thought they are really meant to know their customers but today it recommended a chamber pot , a survival poncho and an Alessi pencil sharpener to me 🤔so weird, these are not things I'd ever buy. My own recent purchases included a book on Lucian Freud, a space hopper, a new dishwasher basket, and some oven gloves... I just can't work it out. Share your own bizarre Amazon recommendations.

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PuttingDownRoots · 19/12/2023 22:30

Going on a Bear Hunt sound book.
My youngest child is 10. Its been years since I've looked at toddler books.

BigGapMum · 19/12/2023 22:33

Amazon suggested a coffin for me. I hadn't been looking at anything funeral related, and didn't even know they sold coffins, but I suppose that I'll need one eventually.

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Icabod · 19/12/2023 22:40

@BigGapMum how disturbing

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WhenWereYouUnderMe · 19/12/2023 22:40

This morning Groupon sent me an email with deals for a new duvet set and a box of 60 condoms.

Oh, how well they know me.

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Icabod · 19/12/2023 22:42

Wow, how do they arrive at these conclusions

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ALongHardWinter · 19/12/2023 22:44

BigGapMum · 19/12/2023 22:33

Amazon suggested a coffin for me. I hadn't been looking at anything funeral related, and didn't even know they sold coffins, but I suppose that I'll need one eventually.

Omg I'm sorry but this made me snort with laughter!

PerkingFaintly · 19/12/2023 22:47

@BigGapMum wins the thread, three posts in.👏👏👏

I just get the boring, "You've just bought a new washing machine. So we recommend you buy... another new washing machine."

smallplants · 19/12/2023 22:48

PMSL at the coffin 💀

I frequently get suggestions for a new drill bit. I don't own a drill.

peebles32 · 19/12/2023 23:03

BigGapMum · 19/12/2023 22:33

Amazon suggested a coffin for me. I hadn't been looking at anything funeral related, and didn't even know they sold coffins, but I suppose that I'll need one eventually.

Sorry. But that made me laugh!!! Off to look at my recommendations now

DinoDays · 19/12/2023 23:43

Thermos
Cat food
Rat poison

DrivingonIce · 19/12/2023 23:47

I once looked at a self-help relationships book for couples.

Amazon helpfully suggested that people who bought it also liked...
An axe.

Doggymummar · 19/12/2023 23:49

Hmm I've never had a recommendation, I switch all notifications off.

VeryQuaintIrene · 20/12/2023 00:11

They recommended my own book to me - said I'd like it, and I guess I do, but still...

EBearhug · 20/12/2023 00:57

Ironing boards, draught excluders, laminator.

I have the first two. I can't really justify the last, but I am tempted...

Coyoacan · 20/12/2023 02:27

You do know that by buying from Amazon you are supporting the genocide in Gaza

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