In an earlier post I described my experience with Springer's new editing practices. Briefly, they're cheap SOBs. ( SOB:= sonovabitch) The saga continues.
Two days ago I received this nice letter from them, thanking me for my refereeing services. Part of the thank-you was an electronic discount token, good for two weeks that I can use to purchase one book of my choice at 50% discount.
The problem is that their shopping website is either not working, or I may be blacklisted. For several months I could not purchase anything there. That did not bother me too much because I could always go to the more reliable Amazon site. I cannot do this with my stupid token: I have to use it on their website which is reliably not working. My attempts to contact the customer service were fruitless (as I write this).
Here is a company that forgot how books are edited, cannot sell them on electronic platforms, and cannot handle customer inquires.
I was pissed off, but then I became worried: maybe one of world's largest media company is run by people suffering from early onset Alzheimer. This seems the most plausible explanation for a behavior displaying forgetfulness of the most basic business practices. Or maybe their just bumbling idiots in charge of the Titanic.
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