Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers

mikesd81 writes "Techdirt reports that Amazon has been awarded a patent for Generating Current Order Fulfillment Plans Based on Expected Future Orders. Essentially, if Amazon deems that you won't be a long time customer or ordering again soon, your order will take longer to be expedited."

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doesnt make sense

[el_coyotexdk]

Why do they need a patent on being late on deliveries? they already are... and i do think we've seen prior art on this one :P

Re:Great idea... not.

[cyphercell]

How much you want to bet using one-click check out is instant game?

Re:Wow, Amazon!

[cyphercell]

care to link to this "wonder of enlightenment" you have in store for me? And no I'm not trolling, are you a shill?

Re:Wow, Amazon!

[cyphercell]

did I mention I picked Amazon orders for five years at Ingram Book Co? No seriously, you haven't said a damn thing that makes one bit of sense and you did make me laugh. Let me assure you, your orders sit in a line on the warehouse floor. And my attitude didn't turn sour 'til you called me a troll, you keep on stroking your ego with this "insider information" you have working for an "exclusive online bookstore", and telling me about how these pickers are magically going to be more productive during the holiday season, because of this mystifying patent that moves everyone to the front of the line.

Seriously, educate me? Amazon is patenting some marketing hyperbole and you're trying to tell me that my order won't come late because of Amazon's shipping estimate? All this patent really amounts to is that if I don't get on the phone and bitch about late orders, then I may never receive an order on time, because now it's automated, and my picking order will be pushed to the back of the line, of an estimated delivery time. Personally, I think you're talking out of your ass, like a lot of people on this thread today, it's a queue system where Amazon is decidedly selecting customers that get their items delivered within the estimated time, otherwise it wouldn't be an estimate, the kicker here is that you indicated you understood this, being an online retailer.