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Story: Amazon to underpin M&S online

Posted by: Samuel (Wednesday 20 April 2005, 12:58 AM)

"The deal also represents Amazon's entry into the European retail services market."

I don't know what that means, there is already an Amazon.co.uk. But did you know that the .co.uk site was a different company from the US .com site, they operate separately. Ha!

One only has to go to the US .com site to experience its superiority for example they have tracks that can be sampled in both .RA and .WMA format, when asking Amazon UK if they were going to follow suit they said no, similarly wish-lists can not be searched or viewed more than 50 items on a page (not flexible) - why? well the system can't do it and they don’t want to?! what! Try saying that in America.

Christ, Amazon.com are even supporting short films, they let you watch them for free right on the front page and vote for them, that replaced the Tsunami appeal...get some!

M&S is going through a bad patch and they don't need some can't-do company like Amazon.co.uk to mess things up.