{"id":284,"date":"2007-11-20T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-11-20T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T01:45:26","slug":"one-click-danger-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"One-Click Danger Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savvy on-line shoppers probably know all about Amazon’s one-click ordering<\/a>.\u00a0 If you fall into the slightly-less-than-savvy category, like me, let me warn you: one-click ordering means exactly what it says.<\/p>\n

I was about to go to the store\u00a0to buy a Christmas present for my son and his family.\u00a0 Donna suggested I buy on-line instead:\u00a0no crowds, and they’ll ship it right to Gregory’s home in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Who can argue with such a sensible woman?<\/p>\n

So I found what I was looking for on Amazon.\u00a0 Since I’d ordered books from Amazon before I already had an account, and\u00a0without thinking pressed the one-click ordering button.\u00a0 I immediately realized my mistake and clicked on the “last page” arrow, but it was already too late.\u00a0 Next morning I got an e-mail from Amazon thanking me for my order.<\/p>\n

I called an Amazon customer rep (naturally it took\u00a0thirty minutes to even locate a phone number, then another thirty minutes of listening to long voice-mail menus before finally learning which number to press for a live person – it’s “7,” not “0”), but she told me the order had already shipped (this less than eight hours after pressing that damned button).<\/p>\n

Because my address is the one Amazon has on file, my son’s Christmas present is on its way to Tucson, not Las Vegas, and I’m going to have to pay a bunch extra to re-ship it to him by UPS or FedEx.<\/p>\n

Watch out!\u00a0 You can’t back out once you press the “one-click” button.\u00a0 It’s enough to turn a person against Mammon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Savvy on-line shoppers probably know all about Amazon’s one-click ordering.\u00a0 If you fall into the slightly-less-than-savvy category, like me, let me warn you: one-click ordering means exactly what it says. I was about to go to the store\u00a0to buy a Christmas present for my son and his family.\u00a0 Donna suggested I buy on-line instead:\u00a0no crowds, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}