Sites of Evil

Today I was going to buy some Sluggy Freelance books for christmas.

I went to Plan 9 Europe, the European distributor for the comics and…

Well, go see. Your mission is to buy the first three Sluggy books without smashing your monitor.

Your time starts now.

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 5th, 2004 at 11:28 and is filed under Accessibility, Design, Imported From Epistula, useability, web development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
  1. Anonymous
    13:04 on December 5th, 2004

    Well, it’s an appalling interface.

    Would it get worse if I registered? I got as far as clicking ‘Buy’ on the first book before I decided that no, unless I actually want to buy one of the books, I wouldn’t be going further…

  2. Bluebottle
    14:12 on December 5th, 2004

    AIEEEEE!

  3. Rory Parle
    14:18 on December 5th, 2004

    All I see is a big sign saying “we don’t want your business”. Interesting approach to commerce.

  4. Martyn Clapham
    16:52 on December 5th, 2004

    The site claims to be the product of people at Lancaster University. Dunno which one, as I’d assume that being in the North West the students at the English Lancaster University would be too flaming sensible to come up with that lump of garbage. BTW, given the current exchange rate, is it worth trying the main Sluggy site?

  5. Aquarion
    18:06 on December 5th, 2004

    Yeah, but the shipping would mean it doesn’t arrive until after Christmas from the US

  6. Martyn Clapham
    22:33 on December 5th, 2004

    Um, yeah, you did actually mention Christmas in the original entry, didn’t you.

    Can I blame it on getting old?

  7. Corinne
    10:27 on December 6th, 2004

    Uuuuuh…I …uhh..think it’s quite nifty. Needs a little more organisation to make it functional but I love the idea.

  8. Jester
    16:37 on December 9th, 2004

    Don’t worry about it too much, they’re out of stock on book 3 anyway.

    Getting to the books was relatively painless using the full site menu (however, that was the only way I could get to them).

    Would it be nasty to write to the comic authors:
    Dear Plan9 Europe are going out of their way to stop people buying your books, perhaps you should look for a distributor who wants to make you money.