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I had amazing "fun" with Amazon's marketplace API. Highlights include: - rejection without error messages - multiple hours before the successful call showed up as successful - broken XML schemas along with conflicting versioning and

My favorite: - error messages from the API asking me to call customer service to perform that action.



According to Eric S. Raymond's version of the Jargon File, people used to joke that MS-DOS system calls delivered "same-day service." Now that we're living in the future, that joke has become literally true.




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