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Originally Posted by haertig
There are plenty of solutions to the "fraudulent book clicker" problem - Amazon seems to have chosen the least understandable and most unenforceable one.
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Because they're still harvesting your clicks. You're right, there are plenty of solutions which they're probably using at another level to sieve it out not to mention at having shmucks like us giving them "free" feedback and programming suggestions in public forums! (Hyrum's probably giggling behind his hornrims)
I'm not trying to reverse engineer Amazon's business model so why would I be busy for days calculating and coding an issue they could solve with a simple answer they already know? But thanks for the hints if they were genuine helpful advice. (Zod's click farm link is helpful, I'll look at that later)
All I was getting to was that Amazon aren't upfront with the real details or honestly or in good faith providing "need to know" information to a customer....... ie full disclosure. You can't sell a dozen eggs and when the customer queries why there is only 10 in the carton and it takes a month of investigation AFTER the sale to find that "Oh we calculate in the metric system, we've decided that 10 is a metric dozen". Duh!
Now, it's nice for Amazon that a lot of you blokes (or blokettes) are rushing in to take bullets for them on this issue but let me pose this to the apologists; are you in favour of the principle Innocent until proven Guilty?