Customer: "It's this book about genes and it has a greenish kind of cover."
Me: "Do you remember anything else about the book?"
Customer: "Not really, can't you find it? It was on Amazon."
Me: "Well I've done a search on 'genes' and 'genetic' and each returned over 300 results, most of which are not in stock."
Customer: "Well can you get on Amazon's website? I can get it from them."
Me: "Er...no, no I can't access competitors websites, sorry."
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At Barnes and Noble I got the most ridiculous requests as well. I distinctly remember a woman asking me for a book: "It was written by a guy, or a girl, I think it was a guy, and it's kind of new, not really though, and it's about murder. Do you have it?"
...yeah and anything that has ever been on Oprah.
I love Amazon's site - it's like a corporate google/wiki - but I rarely buy from them. Well, I did buy a textbook through them. It was 12 after shipping instead of $65 new from the school's bookstore.
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