The most common type of submission Error'd receives are simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The text doesn't match the image, the pricing is goofy, or some other mixup that are just bound to happen with a database of zillions of products uploaded by a plethora of barely-literate mountain village drop-shippers.

So I don't usually feature them, preferring to find something with at least a chance of being a creative new bug.

But I uncovered a story by Mark Johansen about his favorite author, and decided that since so many of you obviously DO think online retail flubs are noteworthy, what the heck. Here is Mark's plain-text story, and a handful of bungled products. They're not exactly bugs, but at least some of them are about bugs.

"I guess I missed your item about failings of AI, but here's one of my favorites: Amazon regularly sends me emails of books that their AI thinks I might want to read, presumably based on books that I've bought from them in the past. So recently I got an email saying, "The newest book by an author you've read before!" And this new book was by ... Ernest Hemingway. Considering that he died almost 60 years ago, it seemed unlikely that he was still writing. Or where he was sending manuscripts from. Lest you wonder, it turned out it was a collection of letters he wrote when he was, like, actually alive. The book was listed as authored by Ernest Hemingway rather than under the name of whomever compiled the letters."

What do we all think? Truly an Error'd, or just some publisher taking marketing advice from real estate agents? Let me know.

A while back, Christian E. "Wanted to order some groceries from nemlig.com. So I saw the free (labelled GRATIS) product and pressed the info button and this popped up. Says that I can get the product delivered from the 1st of January (today is the 2nd of march). Have to wait for a while then..." Not too much longer, Christian.

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Reliable Michael R. muttered "msofas either have their special math where 5% always is GBP10 or they know already what I want to buy."

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"Do not feed to vegetarians." warns Jeffrey B.

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"Not sure how this blue liquid works for others, but there has been no sucking here yet," reports Matthias.

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"Nice feature but I am not sure if it can fit in my notebook," writes Tiger Fok.

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Lady-killer Bart-Jan is preparing for Friday night on the town, apparently. Knock 'em dead, Bart! "It says 'Fragrance for Men'. Which is fine, as long as it also does a good job deterring the female mosquitoes."

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