I just noticed today that Amazon's Goldbox is back. I follow it with interest, since I built most of the original Goldbox, and worked on the next few iterations over a year or so. Some thoughts on seeing it return:

1. Welcome back, I always enjoyed having a toy to play with at Amazon
2. Ads?! In the offer page?!
3. Nice layout and design work, very appealing
4. Giant freakin' banner ads?!
5. The DHTML widget in the top navigation is very slick - with current Goldbox status displayed on mouseover.
6. Giant freakin 3rd-party ads - in the page - that are 5 times bigger than the product image?! (And 20 times more distracting)
7. Quality of selections - some things never change :)

Of course I'll be returning soon - I'm a goldbox junkie, but those ads, come on. I don't recall seeing 3rd party banner ads (or those 300 x 250 rectangle ads) anywhere on Amazon before, but maybe I'm wrong.
 

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