Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
Cotty said:
George Smiley said:
Could you design it better?
I would design it so I didn't have to put my password in when I just typed it 2 second ago.
Big Easy said:
The cash machine at my local shop has various options including cash, cash & balance, cash & receipt. When I select cash it then asks if I want to check my balance, if I did I'd have chosen the cash & balance option. Once that question is dismissed I'm then asked if I want a receipt with my cash. Why bother with the first menu if it's going to ask me these questions anyway!?
Even after using this machine fairly regularly for the last four years I still find myself getting annoyed beyond reason.
Easy Big Easy. It's only a cash machine. And you get money, lovely money at the end.Even after using this machine fairly regularly for the last four years I still find myself getting annoyed beyond reason.
Ebay sellers have annoyed me again today. Looking for a cheap rechargeable work light, so I do a search on that, and it finds me loads of results. I just want a cheap one, I'm not in a rush, so I sort the results by price low to high. So far, so good, the search and sort works far better than the Amazon "specify your search and sort options and I might bear them in mind when I send you the results" search.
But, the sellers list four different options - three lights at £8.99 each, and a USB cable at prices between 99p and £1.19, so the sort by price doesn't work because it uses the lowest price option. So it's virtually impossible to figure out which is the actual lowest price light. I can't even go on the higher end of the price range, because some of the sellers do a multi-pack but don't use the eBay quantity discount method of pricing it.
It's annoyed me so much that I haven't bought one, even though it would be quite helpful to have another to use while the one I've already got is charging up.
But, the sellers list four different options - three lights at £8.99 each, and a USB cable at prices between 99p and £1.19, so the sort by price doesn't work because it uses the lowest price option. So it's virtually impossible to figure out which is the actual lowest price light. I can't even go on the higher end of the price range, because some of the sellers do a multi-pack but don't use the eBay quantity discount method of pricing it.
It's annoyed me so much that I haven't bought one, even though it would be quite helpful to have another to use while the one I've already got is charging up.
droopsnoot said:
But, the sellers list four different options - three lights at £8.99 each, and a USB cable at prices between 99p and £1.19, so the sort by price doesn't work because it uses the lowest price option. So it's virtually impossible to figure out which is the actual lowest price light. I can't even go on the higher end of the price range, because some of the sellers do a multi-pack but don't use the eBay quantity discount method of pricing it.
Yes, I hate this scam. It's rampant on both eBay and Amazon Marketplace.Some sellers even manage to arrange it so that the headline price is "between X and Y" but it is impossible to select an option where the price is X. I don't know how they do that - maybe a hidden value or something.
But, yes, I totally agree it is very annoying.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Yes, I hate this scam. It's rampant on both eBay and Amazon Marketplace.
Some sellers even manage to arrange it so that the headline price is "between X and Y" but it is impossible to select an option where the price is X. I don't know how they do that - maybe a hidden value or something.
But, yes, I totally agree it is very annoying.
I was buying some dog walking boots this morning and found the same thing. Size 2 in dayglo pink would probably equal price X, my size in sensible brown was Y Some sellers even manage to arrange it so that the headline price is "between X and Y" but it is impossible to select an option where the price is X. I don't know how they do that - maybe a hidden value or something.
But, yes, I totally agree it is very annoying.
Grahamdub said:
I was buying some dog walking boots this morning and found the same thing. Size 2 in dayglo pink would probably equal price X, my size in sensible brown was Y
Got some for my Woffer from Bass Pro Shop in the USAhttps://ultrapaws.com/products/ultra-paws-rugged-d...
These actually stay on his feet, even when running
Where I walk the dog there is a lot of chalk and flint stones, he used to often cut his paws on the sharp stones but with the boots, no more problems.
Big Pants said:
I have a feeling that there's money to be made through inter-bank charging if a balance is selected. It doesn't make it right, but I'm pretty sure that's why the UX is the way it is.
Correct - They get money for showing a balance check, printing a balance, etc.It's worth remembering they are asking someone - who is not paying for the service -t create revenue for them more than once.
Definitely worth asking more than once.
Best to ask more than once.
The Mad Monk said:
Grahamdub said:
I was buying some dog walking boots this morning and found the same thing. Size 2 in dayglo pink would probably equal price X, my size in sensible brown was Y
Your foot size is irrelevant if you are looking for walking boots for your dog.We do actually have some boots for our Westie as well.
Grahamdub said:
The Mad Monk said:
Grahamdub said:
I was buying some dog walking boots this morning and found the same thing. Size 2 in dayglo pink would probably equal price X, my size in sensible brown was Y
Your foot size is irrelevant if you are looking for walking boots for your dog.We do actually have some boots for our Westie as well.
BMW for making the up arrow go down tracks/stations and down goes up/next.
They used to have them the other way, this reminds me why modern ux designers are t
ts.
On a govt service, there was something that really needed a (ps off cotty style) confirm button before you committed the data.
We had it there as some controls were missing in background which meant once you sent, it would start a process.
Along comes the long haired never fked anything vegan never washed ponce from UX who insisted, without actually polling the users or checking with security, the button be removed.
tt. Their jo swinson skweam and skweam and skweam approach led to inaccurate checks being submitted at a significant cost per transaction. But because they (yes cc I'm sensitive to his asexuallity) was the ux person they got their way
They used to have them the other way, this reminds me why modern ux designers are t
ts.On a govt service, there was something that really needed a (p
s off cotty style) confirm button before you committed the data.We had it there as some controls were missing in background which meant once you sent, it would start a process.
Along comes the long haired never f
ked anything vegan never washed ponce from UX who insisted, without actually polling the users or checking with security, the button be removed.t
t. Their jo swinson skweam and skweam and skweam approach led to inaccurate checks being submitted at a significant cost per transaction. But because they (yes cc I'm sensitive to his asexuallity) was the ux person they got their way 
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