Comments on: Open Letter To Amazon

By: Bobbie Barden

Bobbie Barden — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:49:00 +0000

Try talkint to one of thier c/s’s. Maybe we should get them to employ english speaking people that way they can maybe spell to.

Love you cus

By: Cindy Procter-King

Cindy Procter-King — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:47:08 +0000

Their system recognizes hyphens. I have books listed as Cindy Procter-King on American Amazon, and I have an account for buying books with Amazon Canada using the hyphen, too. I think someone is pulling your leg, Barbara-Jo. Why could their system recognize hyphens for last names and not first names? Doesn’t make sense.

By: Barbara-Jo

Barbara-Jo — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:35:58 +0000

Good Morning HelenKay~
I can completely sympathize (sp). I was graced with a hyphenated first name. No, it’s not my first and middle name. It’s all one name. Barbara-Jo. I also have a middle name. I object to it being shortened to Barbara. My job calls for me to identify myself on the phone and I can’t tell you how often people think my name is Barbara Jones. I’m a stickler for being called by my full first name. I am not a Barbie or a Barbara, (Barbara is my mother - Joseph my father, and since I was born in the South! Well, you get the picture). I will always make sure to double check Amazon on their spelling. Though, they refuse to change my account name from Barbara (apparently, their system will not recognize hyphens!)
Your loyal fans will get the word out. Have a stress free weekend!!!
Barbara-Jo

By: kim h

kim h — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:45:42 +0000

i saw that. i hope they do fix it.

By: Fedora

Fedora — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:50:29 +0000

LOL, Jaci! I’m so sorry, HelenKay–I hope this will prompt Amazon to fix this permanently!

By: Kelley Nyrae

Kelley Nyrae — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:19:36 +0000

Okay see how mad I am. I had like 50 typos in that paragraph. LOL.

By: Kelley Nyrae

Kelley Nyrae — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:18:07 +0000

Amazon drives me crazy! You have no idea how much they messed my book up. First had my book cover with the wrong title, author name, ISBN, blurb and about the author info. Took months of emails from myself and my publisher to finally get it fixed. The whole time they NEVER have my book listed as available from Amazon (and it still is not listes as available from them) again despite numerous emails from myself, publisher, and publisher distributor. Only used copies of my book from other people are on Amzon. It’s never been available from them even though it released in January and everywhere else carries and and all other books from my pub are available there. It’s a mess! They only respond half the time and still nothing gets done. Grrr.

By: Stacy ~

Stacy ~ — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:13:20 +0000

As someone who’s name is constantly misspelled, or who’s regularly called Tracy, I feel your pain. What must we be thinking, expecting people to get it right? I guess Amazon figures it’s already printed on the book, so who cares how they actually spell it themselves (rolling eyes). Maybe you should change it to HK Dimon. Just a thought *g*

By: Scarlet Y Wharton

Scarlet Y Wharton — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:18:17 +0000

WOW! What a great letter, I could really feel the passion in that one! If you ever gave up writing (NOT) you could make a lot of money for people writing those kind of letters for them! I’ve done a few myself and I can tell you, yours is much better!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:31:44 +0000

Okay, that’s just freakishly stupid. How difficult is it to spell the name that’s on the cover? Apparently, for Amazon employees, pretty damn hard. Sorry for your frustration HelenKay (see Amazon? THAT is how you spell it). I hope they fix it for you.

Hugs!