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> Amazon serving me ads for washing machines, right after I bought one Counterintuitive, but there’s a chance that the one you bought didn’t work out - and tha
by danielheath 3y ago
> Amazon serving me ads for washing machines, right after I bought one
Counterintuitive, but there’s a chance that the one you bought didn’t work out - and that’s high enough to make you much more likely than the general population to buy a washing machine.
Consider: in the past 20 years there have been about two weeks (total) where an ad for a washing machine could be relevant. That’s about 0.2% of the time. If the RMA rate for new appliances is higher than .2%, that’s a useful bit of targeting information.
- alias_neo 3y agoI don't buy this; because it always happens when I've bought something from them, not from elsewhere. Amazon knows if the one I bought worked out or not because I RMAd it or didn't; yet, every time I buy something, I'm inundated with suggestions for the same thing until I've searched or bought a sufficient number of other things, to replace them, and the cycle begins again. Don't get me wrong, they have some fairly decent suggestions based on the things I browse and purchase, or browse and didn't purchase, but showing me dozens of things like the thing I just bought is hilarious.
- quesera 3y agoPeople often research replacements before they return an item. To imagine that Amazon hasn't data scienced this out, to completion, is absurd.