Amazon Gags On Gaga

theodp writes "Having hawked Google Chrome over the weekend with an ad that aired on SNL, Lady Gaga turned her attention Monday to hyping Amazon's Cloud Player service. Fans were delighted to learn that they could download Gaga's entire 'Born This Way' album for a mere $0.99, until technical difficulties set in. 'Amazon is experiencing high volume and downloads are delayed,' Amazon said in a statement. 'If customers order today, they will get the full Lady Gaga, Born This Way album for $0.99. Thanks for your patience.' Some frustrated users meted out one-star ratings for the album as their way of protesting Amazon's slow service, lowering the album's rating to three stars. So, was that karma for upstaging Donald Knuth at the Googleplex?"

Comments

Amazon Gags on Gaga

[ColdWetDog]

Amazon has better taste than I thought.

Thanks for inappropriate ratings

[Duradin]

Thanks for making the ratings less useful.

You may think you're all-important and that your one time shipping experience should mean as much as someone who is reviewing the actual usefulness and quality of the product but all you're doing is adding more useless noise to the reviews.

So hats off to you Mr. Garbage-In.

GugaGaga

[wasimkadak]

Didn't care much about the album. The 20GB cloud storage offered with it seemed worth it.

Re:There is no such thing as karma.

[Haedrian]

I'd say the fact that you successfully downloaded the album in question is a sign of bad karma.

A Day Late and $6 short

[VGPowerlord]

So, I saw this and went to Amazon, only to find out that the "today" mentioned in the summary/article was yesterday, May 23rd. /. editors REALLY need to:
1. Post stories sooner.
2. Fact check.