"Tom Dacon" wrote in message
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Well, since you brought it up, what don't you like about their privacy
policy?
I am not familiar with it, but I have been satisfied with their prices
and service.
I'm learning to be wary of 3rd party sellers.

Bill

Well, Bill, their basic policy is "whatever we find out from you, we own,
like it or not, and we can use it any way we like".

And it really creeps me out the way their tentacles spread out through the
internet. I'll be browsing on some site, Amazon far from my mind and no
evidence whatsoever that the site I'm on is affiliated with Amazon, and
before you know it Amazon will be giving me buying suggestions based on
products that I browsed on that apparently-unrelated site.

Give me the willies.

I think I fear Amazon much less in this regard than I do Google.
At least Amazon is showing me stuff I'm often interested in, books
for instance. They occasionally show me something that I'm interested in
buying (or moving to my "wish list" to think about buying). I moved
a Grizzly G0690 TS there today to watch and see if it might ever go on sale.
: )

Bill



I used to buy tools from an online outfit called Toolcrib or something
like that. Amazon bought them outright and integrated them into their site
back when they were aggressively expanding into other lines of business
besides books. I bought a couple of things in the tool line from them, but
I soured on them pretty quickly when I started reading about their privacy
policies. But sometimes when you're doing a search on something the Amazon
link is the best-looking one, and like I say, when I go there it really
creeps me out to find them popping up with their damned buying
suggestions.

Tom