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R. Alex Whitlock
I just ordered a bunch of parts from Newegg:
  1. A 24 CD Wallet
  2. A Samsung DVDRW
  3. A Samsung DVD drive
  4. Speakers
  5. 2GB of Kingston RAM

Gmail, as most of you know, puts up ads based on the content of the emails. So when it sent the receipt to my Gmail account, it tried to sell me:
  1. A 24 CD Wallet
  2. A Samsung DVDRW
  3. A Samsung DVD drive
  4. Speakers
  5. 2GB of Kingston RAM

Not particularly helpful, but at least the ads weren't cheaper than what I'd just paid.

That would really have pissed me off.

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