What up??

K, so I am surfing my favorite composing forum (YC), and I see annoying Amazon ads in the middle of the posts, WHY????

Are we being invaded? :P

there's one in this very thread!!!! :O

srsly, perhaps they need bandwidth money.

INFILTRATION!

The one is title "In Defense of Food".... at least the ones on the homepage and Wiki are music-related, that's where I first noticed them...

Guys....who cares? I can't begrudge the Mikes for trying to recoup a few costs here and there. Maintaining this thing must be expensive.

Perhaps you'll see something interesting. Otherwise, ignore them...

No, I was just wondering WHY they were there.

I actually think it's pretty cool

It might even work if they put more things that are music related up, seeing as we're all musicians, it might just benefit the site members greatly

I actually think it's pretty cool

It might even work if they put more things that are music related up, seeing as we're all musicians, it might just benefit the site members greatly

They seem tailored to each specific user - assuming you've used Amazon before. All mine are CD's I've checked out, or books or something my wife or I have looked at...

They seem tailored to each specific user - assuming you've used Amazon before. All mine are CD's I've checked out, or books or something my wife or I have looked at...

I don't know about that. I use Amazon all the time and I never look at things like..

Women's Size C34 Bra

and..

Led Zeppelin Anthology

It seems that way. Maybe this could be an advantage.

I am trying to monetize the site a bit. But I am carefully choosing products in which I think users on this site may be interested in. If you have any product suggestions, please let me know. You may notice the store, and I can advertise whichever products I want from Amazon. The wiki advertises products that I specifically recommend in the store. Regarding the ads within the forum, Amazon is supposed to choose ads according to the website content, but I will give it a few days, and if this doesn't work out and the ads are irrelevant to our content, I will change the strategy.

Chopin - I think it's fair, and quite unobtrusive. What I'm seeing are well tailored - either from my own use of Amazon, or persons/products mentioned on the forum.

(I'm inclined to believe the former, as I KNOW my wife wants a KitchenAid mixer...which has conspicuously appeared alongside Paul Bley records :whistling: )

I think it's fair, and quite unobtrusive. Frankly, I'm surprised you haven't done it sooner. ;)

Also, the content it well suited...either through my own use of Amazon, or through persons/products mentioned on the forum. (I'm inclined to believe the former, as I KNOW my wife wants a KitchenAid Mixer, which has conspicuously appeared alongside Paul Bley albums :whistling: )

Works well for me!

I'm not liking the ads being served by Amazon on the forum, at all. Don't worry, if the ads are this lame by the end of the week, I will think of something else.

Actually, the only complaint I have about the ads is that they keep distracting me from the threads I'm reading because I clink on them out of interest.

I can understand the need for ads to pay for bandwidth, etc, but I don't think they should be in the middle of the thread. It's particularly distracting to the flow of the thread and bleeds blatant marketing. I would suggest putting it at the top or the bottom, but certainly not in the middle.

They seem tailored to each specific user - assuming you've used Amazon before. All mine are CD's I've checked out, or books or something my wife or I have looked at...

I do find it a bit intrusive, but know very well how expensive this business can be, and certainly it shouldn't be unrewarded...

I noticed them too. They're a bit intrusive but after a little while, I got used to them. I really don't see what the big deal is about them. Though they are certainly not for those of us who have short att...enti...on sp......Oh, look! I didn't know Amazon was selling Sibelius 5 for $449.00! :D

I'm cool with the ads, the only ones I have been seeing are ads for composition software :)

And what's with prices that are ''too low to display''? Are they like negative prices; they pay you for purchasing the product?

Anders.

There is a specific law that forbids companies to advertise their prices if they are lower than a certain point. There is nothing about how low you can go, but there is a law on how low you can show your prices to be. Some kind of stupid fair plan for merchants...

Ok I have a problem.

When I quick reply on a post (the above one for example), I am taken to some ascot=amazon.something site, without ever showing up. This is most annoying actually, since I'd like to keep browsing and I browse quite fast, so any ideas on why?

Ok I have a problem.

When I quick reply on a post (the above one for example), I am taken to some ascot=amazon.something site, without ever showing up. This is most annoying actually, since I'd like to keep browsing and I browse quite fast, so any ideas on why?

I can confirm this.

I've brought it to chopin's attention - I assume he will either fix it or prevent ads from being displayed to registered users.

Shows that our....famousness...is growing hmm...famousness....popularity? wellknownedness?

maybe a better word...

Hm. How about Popularity- at least it's a word. :toothygrin: