{"id":1385,"date":"2014-07-27T20:35:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:13","slug":"amazons-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/1385\/amazons-sabotage","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s sabotage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Bezos,<\/p>\n<p>the following may sound harsh but on the other hand we Germans are famed for being blunt and direct.<\/p>\n<p>I have a small blog on the internet which barely anyone reads but whenever someone unreasonably attacked Amazon Germany in the past I was there to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>Because I really do like your service and your prices. I&#8217;ve been shopping at Amazon.de, .co.uk, .com, .ca for ages and one time even on .co.jp (to get the Japanese version of <em>Kill Bill<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>As you may know the German press really hates Amazon (not as much as Google, but almost) and I said I defended you.<\/p>\n<p>But now you&#8217;re waging war on MY back. You want a bigger share of the profits of the German book publishers? Fine. Price negotiations are part of every business and they can be rough.<\/p>\n<p>But deliberately delaying deliveries of the books from these publishers to pressure them? Now you&#8217;re betraying your most holy principle: That the customer&#8217;s satisfaction comes first.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, German readers know that it&#8217;s not the publishers&#8217; fault that their books are only shippable after 6 to 10 days, the newspapers made sure of that (see above).<\/p>\n<p>And if I want to read Tom Clancy, then I want to read Tom Clancy, it is no help to me that Stephenie Meyer is available right now.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday I was in this local bookstore and I browsed for a while and found a new Manga comic that seemed interesting. I bought volume 1 right then and there.<\/p>\n<p>Today I read and and wanted to read further. So I naturally went to Amazon. Until &#8220;will be shipped in 6 to 10 days&#8221;. You know what? I don&#8217;t need Amazon for that.<\/p>\n<p>In 6 to 10 days I&#8217;ve been in the city twice and could by the sequel volumes in the same bookstore I bought the first one.<\/p>\n<p>As Oliver Queen as Green Arrow would say: &#8220;You have failed this customer&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Bezos, the following may sound harsh but on the other hand we Germans are famed for being blunt and direct. I have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[840,843,13],"tags":[1656,1692],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-comic","category-web","tag-amazon","tag-one-piece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}