Amazon-com pi**ed me off tonight and lost a $ale

[704wipes]

I go there from a link on wikipedia about an acapella singing group 'Straight No Chaser'.
I heard by word of mouth this group has a very nice set of Christmas songs, and someone here was wanting to hear them.

When I got to Amazon I find that the whole album is on sale - 12 songs - for only $2.99 - in mp3 format.
I am like , cool, that is a good price from what I hear about them. I have an Amazon id so what they heck, I will buy it. I dig out my id + Password, put it in my cart to download and then they tell me I need THEIR free downloader software which will only take 90 seconds to download and install.

You know what I said? SCREW IT.

If you want to sell me 12 songs for 2.99 I am all about it. Put them in a god damn .zip or .rar file and let me download it with Firefox, IE, Opera, Or Google Chrome. I am always suspicious of 'downloader software', it is so commonly used to track internet activity, etc. And there is really no need for Amazon to 'offer' this. What bullshit.So they lost a sale and money which I don't really care about Amazon, too bad the group doesn't get their royalty from my purchase.

Anyway you can check out a little animated video with their 'Christmas Can-Can' song on their website here:

http://www.sncmusic.com /

'Christmas Can-Can' is a tongue-in-cheek slightly sarcastic little ditty. :-) AND it's free to watch !!

[hippywife]

1. I'm the same way on sites that offer

coupons but you need to download the software first. I understand they only offer so many per household in a given period and that allows them to track it but I'm not downloading any software. Period.

[TommyO]

2. Thanks for the heads-up!

I already have the downloader installed on my Mac, and at $2.99 this album was a no-brainer (after sampling the songs, of course).