On 5 Jul 98, at 21:36, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> Unfortunately, people haven't been buying on the Net. Number crunchers
> generally give $2.5 billion as an estimate for retail Internet sales last
Umm... tell that to Dell. I wonder if Amazon is selling anything; the question is
about
selling, not profitting.
I think that most websites don't make it easy to buy. Most of them don't make it easy
to do anything. I was just at the HP website in search of some drivers for my HP
694C.
Forget it. What a joke. And there was no email address to complain to. They had a
form that did not include a textarea and you have to include your dog's middle name to
submit. Forget it. It wasn't just as simple as inputting the name of my O/S and HP
printer. No, oh no, they have a search engine. What a joke.
I can't recall the last good website that I liked. I do like Amazon; I like reading
reader
reviews and seeing what other books other people bought.
I can almost like imdb.com but they just have too many options for me (I have ot tell
them what country I am in - should be automatic). I just like to see reviews, reader
reviews and the vote section and it is always a bit of a chore to get there. But I was
really happy to see that someone had reviewed on of my all-time favorite movies
(Harakiri). I wish I could have seen what other movies this person liked.
My point is that most companies are not using the web in a smart way. And I don't see
it getting better. I see more and more web sites defined by use of software rather
than
knowledge.
Peter
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