Buy(t-me).com
I want to meet the genius who designed and implemented the shopping cart mechanism at Buy.com. I'd duct tape him to a chair, hang one of those cartoon hammers over his head, held by a rope, then put a candle under the rope burning it away. Then I'd give a guy a keyboard and tell him he had five minutes to buy something, anything, at www.buy.com.
What would cause me to wish a cartoon death on a probably-overworked programmer?
Try a quality online sales experience like this:
Receive special email offer from www.buy.com.
Click on the offer.
See a desirable item.
Click on the buy now button.
See your cart with the desirable item in it.
Click on checkout now.
See the page refresh and then dump you back into view cart.
Click on the checkout now button several hundred times, taking many different paths to it and marvel that you always end up back in the view cart.
Empty your browser cache, log back in and do it all over again.
Try dismissing the horrible credit card offer.
Oooo, no cigar.
Try creating a new account.
Oooo, no special offer.
Try emailing tech support.
Hold breath waiting for reply.
Stop holding breath and go back to view cart.
Notice that the list of items in the cart includes 2 "special offers" at a price of 0$ each.
In desperation, delete the special offers.
Click checkout now.
Continue the checkout process, unburdened by those indecipherable special offers.
Dream up cartoon death for programmer.
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