[daringnovelist]

I was looking for the little pads that you put on the door of a cupboard to soften the closing of the door, and I happened to look in the "also boughts" and found a wifi hub, an otoscope (the thing the doctor uses to look into your ear), batteries, staplers, a squeegee, disposable polypropylene shoe covers, and a book light for Kindle.

Somehow I don't think it would be good for my marketing, but I would love it if my book appeared in the also boughts of an otoscope.  Or a dental mirror for peeking around corners. Or a Draft Horse brand Australian Stock Saddle (which only has other horse gear in it's "also viewed" area, and no 'also boughts' -- which tells me that not many people buy an Australian stock saddle at Amazon....)

Oh, and the other day I was looking for a massager for my shoulder and I saw in the also boughts a 22" personal flogger, which tells me that not everybody looking for a massager is looking to relieve pain.

Camille

 

[Maria Romana]

Ha, I know what you mean.  I use affiliate links when I push folks to my book pages (more for the tracking ability than the couple extra pennies), but of course, sometimes folks buy other things while they're there, and those show up on my affiliate page, too.  I've seen baby food, underwear, toothbrushes, and some techno-doo-dads I didn't even know existed.

--Maria

 

[T.K.]

How funny (and embarrassing) that you can view someone's underwear purchases. *made me laugh*

 

[Millard]

When one of my books was first available in paperback on Amazon, the "customers who bought this also bought" was all toilet cleaning stuff, which made me wonder who my audience was. I mean *all* toilet cleaning stuff - a wide variety of brushes, urinal cakes and whatnot.

At one point, that t-shirt with the three wolves howling at the moon was there, too, but I'd like to think whoever reads my stuff and bought that was being ironic. I probably do skew towards the hipster brigade a little.

 

[mathewferguson]

Ha, I know what you mean. I use affiliate links when I push folks to my book pages (more for the tracking ability than the couple extra pennies), but of course, sometimes folks buy other things while they're there, and those show up on my affiliate page, too. I've seen baby food, underwear, toothbrushes, and some techno-doo-dads I didn't even know existed.

--Maria

I use the affiliate links for tracking too and one person decided to head off on a technology buying spree after landing on Amazon via my book.

Made more in affiliate income than the Kindle royalty so it worked out well.

 

[JCF]

I mean *all* toilet cleaning stuff - a wide variety of brushes, urinal cakes and whatnot.

Isn't "urinal cakes" an oxymoron?

If not, it should be.

 

[Millard]

They're not as delicious as they sound, I know that much