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https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096?lang=en https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096?... "Dear Amazon, I bought a to

https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096?lang=en https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096?... "Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one. Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I am not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, I'm not going to think, oh go on then, just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself."

pjscott 8y ago
From Amazon's perspective, someone who just bought a toilet seat is much more likely than the average person to buy another one. Maybe they're doing interior furnishing work and put loads of seats on toilets. Maybe they're replacing a broken crappy plastic seat on one of their toilets with a nicer one -- might they perhaps decide to upgrade their other toilets as well? And sure, I know that these are all pretty weak signals and that the toilet seat recommendations will probably go un-clicked. But Amazon has to do the best it can with not very much information, and if they have to hawk toilet seats to a hundred people who've already bought them to find the one guy who's remodeling several bathrooms, that's probably a really good gamble for them to take.