Online shopping:
Due to the inability to find certain things in Hong Kong and the high prices of that we can find...I've tried to turn to online shopping to get those hard to find items...mostly eBay and Amazon.com. The problem with Amazon is the only items they will ship overseas are books, cd's and dvd's...and those, of course, come with higher shipping costs because the goods are coming from the states. Oh...but, amazon.com is a smart, international company, you say...and yes, indeed they have several different regional sites, including China....well, guess what happens when you go to their China sites....it's only in Chinese! Doesn't really help me! Same thing with eBay's Hong Kong site. Now, I'm not trying to be insensitive and demand that everyone speak English for my benefit...I just think that amazon and eBay must not have fully thought out their internationalization plans here. These are American based companies...they could have easily created English translated pages for their regional sites. Heck, every web page I've been to for Hong Kong based companies have a little link for the English translated pages!
That's all...I'm done ranting now.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Things that peeve me off: #4812
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You know...Jason Morefield is working for Amazon.com, and he may be able to help you out. Check out his info on myspace. You can get to him through me, if you don't do that already.
Oh, and if you already knew this...just ignore me. I'll go away.
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