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About 3 years ago I needed to replace a part on the mowing deck of my riding lawn mower, and I pulled my maintenance manual, knew the exact part number I needed, and went to a local service place to order the part for me. To my knowledge, I never did an internet search for the part because I figured there was no point.

Amazon just recommended the exact part to me.

http://smile.amazon.com/gp....1p_1_ti

WTF internet?
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Did you previously buy the lawnmower online? Maybe that model has a tendency for that to break - but yours did three years sooner than averagw - and Amazon has just been waiting to link you this whole time?



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Nope, never online. It's insane.
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What lawnmowery things have you bought on there?
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I looked at mower deck belts about a year ago.
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Oh, also compost conversion kits last month.
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Post by Malcolm »

Were those specific to your model?
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I clicked your link so of course when I went to Amazon today it had several plugs for your part and variants.



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Damnit, I just clicked your link. Jerk.
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TPRJones wrote:Damnit, I just clicked your link. Jerk.
That made my day.
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Paul wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Damnit, I just clicked your link. Jerk.
That made my day.
Ha, I didn't even realize you had a link in there... my brain subconsciously refuses to see times that you link things.
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One of the nuts from the guard on my chainsaw vibrated off the other day, so I just hit amazon and searched "poulan 18 chainsaw parts" to see if they sold replacement parts.

One of the options on the front page was a DVD of "The Evil Dead."

I approve.
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Post by Paul »

WTF, Internet!
That came up on page 2 when I was browsing to see if I wanted to order anything else for bow season next month.
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