marisela_arias
Re:Real Life UX: Returning Items to Amazon Makes Me Smile
on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:45AM (#4093252)
Packages are insured so, unless they suspect fraud, they will let insurance cover it.
Consumers usually pay FedEx for insurance when we need a package but I bet Amazon self insures, given their size. Either way, money is set aside to cover situations like this.
Re:The Knife Maker
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:32AM (#3211077)
"10,000 hours of training, according to Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. Gladwell based this assertion on the work of Anders Ericsson, who studied classical violinists and found that, in every case, it had taken a regimen of 2-3 hours a day for 10 years to develop their abilities. Later research by Ericsson and others confirmed similar results in other fields."
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/on-luck-success-a...
Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave...
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:11AM (#3211000)
The problem is that Amazon doesn't want to set a precedent by paying him. They want to be able make these mistakes in the future and be free to screw over another author without any previous settlement mucking things up.
Re:Amazon Won’t Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave...
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:08AM (#3210979)
That's not the problem here. The author presumably found the price change rather quickly. It was Amazon that took a long time to respond to the error that's at issue.