Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Amazon's Gold Box


I hate the thing. It seems like every time I see something I am remotely interested in, I have mere moments to decide if I want to purchase it. Forget looking up reviews or other helpful purchasing info on the net. If you do that, it will be gone. For example, there was just a game up for the 360. It looked fun, but I was not sure, so I went to look up the reviews for the game at a couple of sites. The reviews were generally positive, so I decided to go ahead and purchase the game. My research could not have taken more than 5-10 minutes, yet I returned to amazon only to find that all of the discounts had been claimed! Damn them. I mean I am kind of glad. I did not need to buy another game, and it probably saved me $25 bucks, but now I have this nagging feeling that I missed out on a really good deal. And it just means that the next deal I see will be bought immediately with no research into whether or not it is worth it. BTW, it won't be.

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