Ok. So I’m a super fan of Amazon.  After being rototilled by California this year in taxes, I’ve tried my best to shop on Amazon as much as possible. No Taxes. It’s like a 10% coupon every time. As long as I can manage to wait about a week for delivery.

I also happened to have a little brother graduating college. I called him up and asked him if' he’d like an electronic hand-held reader for his graduation gift. He enthusiastically agreed, and I sent him on his way to pick the one he liked the best. He looked at the Amazon’s Kindle, the B&N’s Nook, and Sony’s version (whatever that’s called).  Amazon’s was the one he liked the best. It was more expensive by $59 from the closest competitor, but had wireless connectivity he liked.   It was $259 overall, but I didn’t care.  This was my little bro, and I was going to use my electronics fund from work to cover the cost regardless. The money had to go somewhere.

My brother got the Kindle and loved it.

Soon after, Amazon drops the price of the Kindle from $259 to $189.  My friend informs me of this, and I immediately request customer service from Amazon on their site. (I love this feature, you fill in a box, and they call you within a couple minutes. They call ME so that I can complain. How awesome is that.) So I ask them if it’s possible if I can recoup the difference in cost. The guy says “Sure, we will give you back the difference as long as you bought it less than 30 days ago, May 21st.”

He asks, “When did you buy the Kindle?”  I sigh and respond. “May 20th.” And he goes. “I was hoping someone like you wouldn’t call.”  He refunded me half the difference anyway in the form of an Amazon credit. I am appreciative.

9 days later one of my favorite shopping sites, Woot!, gets bought out by Amazon. This site sells only one product every day at a very discounted rate.  A new product goes up at midnight central time every day. I normally stay up till at least 10:00 PM Pacific Time to check the new day’s offering.  It’s part of my nighttime ritual.

I’m up at 10:00 PM on June 30th and check the site. And in a big smear of animalistic ownership,  the Kindle is for sale for $149.00.  The day after Amazon acquired Woot.

I don’t know what the moral of this story is. Other than that sometimes timing is bad. That’s not really a moral. But I hate preachy shit anyway so buzz off.