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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

AskTog: Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line

Via Tomalak's Realm comes AskTog: Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line a dave letterman top ten list with a (horror) story for each one.

Here's my interpretation :

  • Waiting for the pages to load: Don't assume they have a high speed connection; Never use a graphic for text; Every graphic must add real value (to the customer not the VP).

  • Stupid promotional efforts make the company appear dim witted: Don't deceive or lie (ever or even a little) in order to bring customers to your site/company.

  • Insufficient, unintelligible, or just plain wrong information for making a buying decision.

  • Search can't find: be forgiving for Misspellings; "OR" searches instead of "AND" by default.

  • Do you what my money: Sites that don't work on my browser/OS; Click the button to buy , only to be directed to call instead.

  • Temporary shopping carts: sites that forget want I asked for or timeout because "I'm" to slow to respond / make up my mind / confirm with my friend.

  • Sites that can't ship in-stock items in a timely fashion.

  • One size fits none; entering credit card numbers and dates in in-fexible manners. Badly designed defaults.

  • After the sale service: confirmation emails that no one has ever printed out.

  • Buyer Protection guarantees that don't.


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