DISQUS

Leigh · 2 years ago

"Fueled by an unsatisfactory experience buying something on the website"

Ha! For any clients that think one customer can't make a difference in their lives. I wonder if he got the same ditsy customer service agent that I did when i started my "give leigh her 10$ back Amazon.com" campaign years ago?
Mathew · 2 years ago

So why didn't you get to work and crack their patent, Leigh? :-)
Bob Warfield · 2 years ago

Fabulous story! I had no sooner finished ranting about Google's frivolous search widget patent and using Amazon's 1-click as an example than I heard about this on ycombinator:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/goog...

I think patents should be at least partially a function of the cost of developing the idea and less a function of who happened to slam an application through on an obvious idea soonest.
Leigh · 2 years ago

Because I was focused on my $10 Mathew....duh….
(which i am happy to say after email number 20, they decided to make an exception and give back to me)