My pet hate: I don't like the way I have to open a passworded account at so many e-shops before I can buy anything, often before I can even see the delivery charge. I never know the password next time I go there, I don't want them to save my credit card details, my browser helps me fill in my address details, so what is the ****ing point?
That bugs me too, I wan't to be able to fill my shopping cart and have full visibility of the cost including delivery charges before I sign up.
That's my pet hate too - I don't mind signing up for an account, as long as I can see what the damned delivery charge is before I do.
Ha, you've hit the nail on the head there cpemma, my pet hate for web shopping is going back to a site I haven't been to in a while and trying to remember my password. I usually end up signing up again because I can't remember it. They keep the details in an account so the next time I visit their site they can look at a cookie or see what I've bought in the past and show me similar stuff in the hope I'll buy it. It doesn't work though because I know what I'm looking for and what I want to buy and for how much. Jimbo
Online shopping is easy, but I hate real shopping. I'm not usually an angry person but I sometimes have to physically stop myself from yelling '****ING MOVE' at someone who's dawdling with their trolley. Mind you, it's the same when I'm driving - have been known to keep my hand on the horn until the car in front moves, have done it for 5 minutes straight before... This was completely off topic, but no, I don't have any problems with waiting for things to happen when web shopping. It's infinitely easier than getting off my ass and going to the shop.
Horn = no no. Shouting inside my car, yes You can probably get arrested for breach of the peace for horn abuse as it's only meant to be used in an emergency. If you don't give people time to move, you'd probably get a finger from me out the back window or ill just drive REALLY slowly to frustrate you. Shopping around other people = nightmare. Waiting = nightmare. Online shops need: Easy to fill out forms that are standard fields so FF auto-fills them. Only Amazon and Play can save my CC details, others NO. Signing up to get delivery prices = Waiting for more than 3 days for something unless it's super saver delivery = Slow site = Poorly made site = Expensive =
I personally hate some of the people I come into contact with when I go shopping, unless Im at bestbuy or some other computer/electronics place its a get in and get out as fast as possible. And I dont use the horn, I swear and yell when the moron is doing 15 under on the highway in clear weather, it pays to have a slightly padded steering wheel when you bang your fists on it. And I dont have road rage, road rage is acting on your anger, I just swear a lot.
I'm exactly the same. If I'm waiting 15 seconds for a page to load I don't care, but get extremely angry and frustrated when shopping (Read: When shopping with women).
I don't mind waiting for pages to appear to be honest. If I'm going to be spending any sort of money over about £5 I can handle waiting an extra 5 or 6 seconds for a decent shops site to load. What I do hate is the so far commonly cited thing of having to sign up before you see delivery charges. That's incredibly infuriating. IMO all shops should offer a way of purchasing goods without you having to sign up for an account first. I know plenty of shops where I don't bother getting stuff from because I just think "I could get that from scan/amazon in half the time 'cos I already have accounts there". The other pet hate of mine is getting charged extra for delivery 'cos I live in the "Scottish Highlands". I frequently am expected to select "Scottish Highlands" as opposed to "Mainland UK" for my delivery location, and pay an extra £10-20 for absolutely no good reason(I live 15 minutes from a city of 65k people ffs - it's hardly remote). I have discovered though that just selecting the mainland UK option often gets me an email and opertunity to tear shreds off some employee - which makes it all ok.
A couple of things that bug the crap out of me when shopping online... Having to go through 57 screens to complete my purchase. Put ALL the fields on one page, have one confirmation page, and then you're done. Don't put Billing address on one page, then shipping address on the next then credit card info on the nexe then then then If a form has required fields which I have missed, then at least remember the rest of what I put in. The other night I was ordering some jewelry supplies online and I forgot to put in my email address. So it kicked it back and I put in my email, and hit "send" and it kicked back because it had taken out my credit card info, so I had to put that back in. I know this is supposed to be a "security feature" (I think that's an oxymoron), but it's annoying as hell.
