Posted by Mika on 11/25/07 14:52

"Sherman Pendley" <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote in message
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> "Mika" <anon@anon.com> writes:
>
>> "Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
>> news:5j7gk39ii2vn1b4naoc3ql49a21rhfgkei@4ax.com...
>>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:21:13 GMT, "Mika" <anon@anon.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://tinyurl.com/35mwxr
>>>
>>> Possibly the nastiest page in many a long day.
>>
>> Thanks. That explains all the great reviews posted on our home page. We
>> appreciate it isn't how you would do it, but it is at least unique and
>> inventive.
>
> Speaking as a customer, I'm not looking for "unique and inventive" web
> design when I'm doing my online shopping. I'm a web geek, and I'm not
> against such things in general. I enjoy many entertainment, music, comics
> and "concept" sites that are loaded with stuff like that - indeed, being
> entertained by a unique and inventive design is sometimes the point of an
> entire site.
>
> But the point of a shopping site is different. A shopping site should be
> concerned with making it as easy as possible for the customer to find what
> they want and spend their money. The goal of *your* shopping site appears
> to be just the opposite, to make it as difficult as possible.
>
> So tell me - as a customer, what motivation do I have to enable
> VirusScript,
> wait for minutes for each of your pages to load, and turn off my preferred
> music, just for the privilege of shopping at your site? Why shouldn't I
> just
> go to Amazon.com instead, which loads quickly, works without VirusScript,
> and remains blissfully silent?

To answer your question:

Don't you find search engines rather clinical? All that text doesn't
exactly stimulate the senses. We believe Internet shopping should be a rich
user experience, and that is what we deliver -- the sights & sounds of real
world shopping, minus the hassle.

Trawling the search engines you'll eventually find many retailers don't have
an online store -- just a catalogue, or nothing at all. But when you click
their door on the Superhighstreet, you're virtually always taken to an
online outlet that does allow home delivery of the same products. We've
done the painstaking research for you, to take you straight to identical
brands & products available online. No more trawling the web then.

Many people prefer that real street experience. There are streets we know
and love, and we know where their favourite shops are and how they look.
With us you can still go there, without the heavy bags & traffic jams of
course.

Better still, there are millions of people who may never get the chance to
stroll down the famous streets we feature. Now they can scroll down them
almost instantly, travelling 100s of miles in seconds.

(And if you can't see the big speaker button to turn the sound off that's
right above the streetscape, maybe you need to visit the opticians on Oxford
Street ;) )

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