Olbermann book sale blocked on Amazon: coincidence?

:wtf:

"Keith Olbermann's current book "Pitchforks and Torches" is at this moment blocked from being sold new on the Amazon website. The notation reads:

"Item Under Review

While this item is available from other marketplace sellers on this page, it is not currently offered by Amazon.com because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it's described here. (Thanks for the tip!)

We're working to fix the problem as quickly as possible."

http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2010/10/olbermann-book-sale-blocked-amazon-coincidence

Keith has been outspoken for a long time. Why is this shit happening now?

I hope his book sales soar like a rocket past the galaxy. I was just about to put in an order for a few books along with Keith's. I'm going to look in B&N and local booksellers. It's out there and I'm buying asap.

pricing. ...

So what's up with TH and this article? :shrug: It's a plot to drive me insane and it's working.

That's what makes it seem so strange. Con flash mob? Nah.
Don't know why it's there.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2010/10/olbermann-boo...

and nothing stopped me from buying it.

No unusual advisory. Just the usual reviews and sale info.

Whatever the issue was, it looks like it has been resolved.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470614471/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Looks available right now.

trying to purchase the book at the same time, and it caused the system to lock up? I could see that happening. Perhaps the # of orders couldn't keep up with the inventory program they had in place and they had to take a "time out" for everything to catch up?

I'm just guessing. It was working fine for me this a.m.

It's the statement on Thom Hartmann's website that got my bp up and wondering wtf was going on. I should have tried to use Amazon first but, since TH is a trusted site by me - I posted this to DU without checking if Amazon was working. My bad. Sorry :blush:

Of course I haven't completely followed through with the order and not sure if there'll be an additional message after I completed it.

Well - at least I can remove my :tinfoilhat:

I'm totally confused, but happy that the book is available and selling.

Carry on, I'm putting myself on permanent bed rest for the day ;)

I think whatever it was is fixed now but nothing would surprise me when it comes to the ultra-powerful when they have an axe to grind.

'Trust but, verify.'

'Doth endith (sp?) the lesson.' Sean Connery in the 'Untouchables'

On TH's site. I don't know - whatever. Order the damn book ;P

Please read other posts related to the OP

20 minutes between the time you posted first and last, with the report in-between that it was working?

Don't have TIME?

But thanks for posting what I was thinking. :fistbump:

Seems as though the conspiracy outweighed the desire to buy the book.

The official CA State website for our election returns
completely crashed 10 minutes before our polls closed
last Tuesday.

It turns out that the servers crashed- too much traffic.
This, in the state that has Silicon Valley!

The elections in 2000 and 2004 have left many of us
suspicious of any weirdness.

to silence Keith Olbermann.

Why?

???

Based on people here buying it!!!

I was thinking that the stock remaining had to be verified due to brisk sales - which is what I think actually happened here.

It really was only a brief glitch.

no, they got a Q\A issue going on... Jesus age there are days

Seems people aren't reading anything but the OP or maybe just hit and miss comments and keep questioning this when I and others have posted explanations. This is going to be one of those days - it's been one of those weeks and it doesn't seem to be getting better :sigh:

J/K I'll post OP and comments. Could never stay out of the fray ;) To you, Nadine :toast:

...all I could think to do was ask that the O/P be locked to save my sanity. :)

if they get a report of ONE bad copy they do this

When they stop selling in all formats then we can worry.

Hell they did that with Harry Potter!

My dil and granddaughter have the collection and have read them all. If I weren't hearing impaired books on tape would be great for me. In the car, doing things around the house. I'm always stressed since I can only do one thing at a time if it involves hearing.

This is my life since my mid-twenties. It was slow and progressive but, in the last 8 years it's made a tremdous impact on my life. I'll deal with it, what are my choices, lol.

on edit: I'd love to have a button for r/l - I'm not stupid - I just can't hear you clearly. I hear mumbling. Sounds like people are talking with a mouth full of marbles. I can hear low tones, bass ok. It's the higher frequencies that I don't hear at all. Vowels I hear, consonants, no. So I use cued speech techniques - similar to lip reading.

a money bonanza. We might think Keith sells a lot of books, but compared to HP... no he does not.

It would be close if left wing billionaires bought them in truck loads (like the right), but you get the point.