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Amazon's Ingenious Patent to Replace Your Bad Gifts
- pbateman 14y agoAn interesting idea but there is no way stuff like this should be patentable.
- dangoldin 14y agoWhat's being patented here? It seems like it's just automating a standard gift receipt process by adding a few rules.
- sirclueless 14y agoThe innovation is that when gifts are sent to you, they can be automatically changed, or converted into credit. So instead of this wasteful, time-consuming process where you return the unwanted gift to Amazon and get something else, you can just preemptively do it in a sneaky fashion, saving money for Amazon and time for you.
- noonespecial 14y agoMethod and process for avoiding bad gifts: 1) Ask for cash only like a rube. 2) Spend it on whatever you want. 3) ...But on teh intertubes.
- area51mafia 14y agoThe wizard diagram listed on the patent is a complete rip off of the rules dialog included as part of Outlook. I don't have a Windows version of Outlook available right now, but it's very similar.
- splatzone 14y agoThis is horrendous. What happened to talking to people? Or being grateful?
- lucian1900 14y agoThere's this odd taboo where people don't want to know (or choose) what their present is.