Okay, this answered some things, but others issues still exist with my quick picks because it's still showing awful music in them, yet I never had any music at all in my recommendations I could fix to say not to use it. All my recommendations are games and movies, yet music still exists in quick picks. I wish it was easier, and that when you scroll down and view the few quick picks, you could say "not interested" in a check box THERE...that'd be easier, though that would be something Amazon probably wouldn't consider because that's closer to rigging the quick picks directly, which I'm sure they'd "frown upon" in the first place. Not to mention I've always been confused because members here always said "I got it in my gold box" and not "I got it in my quick picks" because there IS a difference as I just realized by this thread, and some posts around here made me think you could control the ACTUAL Gold box deals in the upper right. It's almost always referred to "my Gold box" on CAG, and "just wait until it shows up in your Gold box", sorry, but that's confusing IMO. The Gold box deals are universal, and "quick picks" is something else, yet some people interchangeably use them.
Also, the fricking thing they use, as aptly named "logic filter" here, is busted beyond hell, I bought the Watchmen on Blu-ray from them no less than a month ago (pre-ordered) and the other day it showed up in quick picks...makes no sense. Not only do I own it, I BOUGHT IT FROM THEM...lol...mine's been like the other user here who said random weird sh*t shows up...I get unrelated standard def. TV seasons of shows I don't care about on DVD in quick picks, just because I bought Fringe on Blu-ray, and nowhere in recommendations do those tv shows show up. I'm talking about them offering me stuff like Weeds, how is that similar to Fringe?! Just because it's "TV on DVD"? Its often frustrating because you think by honing your recommendations you can fix this (if it's not in recommendations, you can't though!), but low and behold I get country music, pop albums etc... in my quick picks when the only CD I ever ordered from Amazon was a newer CD you can't buy in the states, a rock band called Thornley. "Oh, he bought a CD, I bet he likes ANY kind of music"...if it's not in recommendations, why is it showing up in quick picks? There's no way to fix this, I even told them not to use that CD months ago, but still...
I have long since told it not to use that ONE CD, yet they still show up even after that....*BUT* then I stumbled onto something interesting. It appears that because I added 2 tags ("rock" and "Nickelback") to the Thornley CD Tiny Pictures product page to help customers search, it has been adding ANY CD's (regardless of genre) into my quick picks. Weird, so I deleted my tags in my account profile by editing them out...You try to help Amazon shoppers who are searching by adding tags to an item, and it penalizes you by using those tags somehow (Rock = music...music=Diva pop...Hey, he loves Britney Spears!...??? WTF?). Eff that, I'm not sacrificing my own bargains because their internal searching protocol is messed up.
Bottom line, I have been pissed about the erratic nature of quick pics showing random crap that wasn't even music or blu-rays or games out of nowhere when that's all I buy or look at, (like tools, kitchen stuff, etc...showing up, I don't buy that stuff!) and have been trying to refine things like ratings/own it, etc... for months, and it's just "buggy" to me, seems it may depend on other factors like how frequent you shop, when you order something, SOMEthing else...there's got to be more to it, because there's a few of us who have COMPLETELY different items just randomly showing up in there hogging up precious space. Not to mention like I said they had a quick pick for something I bought from them less than 30 days prior! Ugh.
Blah, I've resorted to trial and error, I've just read through this thread and learned the hard way over the last 8 months since seriously ordering off Amazon, about 75% of the tactics here I've been using. But at least it was a VERY GOOD read, as it allowed me to refresh what I know and rid myself of some of the mysteries. It was so worth you guys doing this, forgive this long rant, but I didn't think anyone would talk about this, as each time a newbie would ask "how do you modify quick picks" nobody responds to him. I'll fix that remaining 25% and see how much difference I can make. Thanks all.