24: An International Amazon Mystery

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🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Danielle wanted a copy of "Pride and Prejudice," so she clicked the top result on Amazon. The book that came in the mail was too big with type that was too small. The introduction was laughable. The story of how this book came to be took us halfway around the world.

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0:00.0	Thank you for calling customer service where we answer all your burning questions about
0:12.5	brands.
0:13.8	This call may be recorded for podcast purposes.
0:17.0	How's hold name customer service?
0:21.4	Can I have your name please?
0:22.4	Hi, this is Danielle Kurzleben.
0:24.4	And you have a problem for us?
0:26.2	So I went to order Pride and Prejudice on Amazon.com.
0:31.2	And I just picked one that was towards the top of the list and it showed up at my house
0:36.1	a couple days later and it looks like you would expect a cover of Pride and Prejudice to
0:41.0	look except it's huge.
0:44.0	It's 8 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 with a glossy cover.
0:47.0	You can't like one hand it like you can with a usual novel.
0:50.7	And then on the inside, the typeface size I swear is like 6.
0:55.9	It's very small and each page is full of it.
0:59.6	I'm flipping through and it's like one and a half pages to a chapter sometimes less.
1:06.3	But the funny thing also is that there's this weird little like medallion ribbon thing
1:12.6	on the cover.
1:13.6	And in the middle of it is an A and around it is a bunch of Cyrillic writing.
1:18.2	As if it had one some sort of Russian literary pride?
1:22.2	I don't know.
1:23.2	I don't know how I screwed up but that this apparently is what I ordered.
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