What I want from a consumer appliances website
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I want to buy an air conditioner, and since I've had good experience with Panasonic units in the past, I am strolling through Panasonic India website. All I see there is marketing bullshit with a lot of nonsensical writing accompanied by stupid pictures of air conditioners sweeping blue coloured air all around it like a swirling hurricane. The contents in their website try hard to convince me how awesome their technology is, and how they've broken new grounds and how they will capture this world with their air conditioners. I want a frockin' button on their website, which would just show me the product specifications and price, for the fact that nothing else matters. But, there's no way to find it. So, I've to remember the model numbers that I'm interested in (like OMGLOL-KA-MEGA-AWSUM-DOUCHE4385) and call up their customer care or a showroom find out the price of each model. No, thanks. So, it's either a Hitachi or Samsung now. They're both equally good as well (Hitachi being slightly better, in fact), and have straightforward, useful information on their websites.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
show me the product specifications and price
That's precisely what I want from every website. If I have to talk to a salesman, or request a quote from your site, you've lost the sale. Period. If I have time to chat with a pitchman or wait for someone to get around to answering an email RFQ, I wouldn't be shopping on the web, and you have no business being there. I know that prices vary, and I don't expect them to be perfectly accurate, but you'd damned well better show me typical pricing if you want me to spend two seconds on your product page.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Believe me, none of us think you capable of managing nuclear fusion.
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" John Scalzi
I dont care wht you think or what you dont.I publicly apologised to you in the forum,so that still conveys to me tht i am sane. I dont claim to be too good , but i think i have a different view point. we cant manage small simple thing s yet - why go all the way to nuclear fusion? genius doesn't always last,perseverance does.
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I can think of a few uses, myself...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
John Bobbit comes to mind...
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I dont care wht you think or what you dont.I publicly apologised to you in the forum,so that still conveys to me tht i am sane. I dont claim to be too good , but i think i have a different view point. we cant manage small simple thing s yet - why go all the way to nuclear fusion? genius doesn't always last,perseverance does.
I-am-Learning wrote:
we cant manage small simple thing s yet
Speak for youself. I have no trouble with lots of small things, simple things, large things, complex things. My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
show me the product specifications and price
That's precisely what I want from every website. If I have to talk to a salesman, or request a quote from your site, you've lost the sale. Period. If I have time to chat with a pitchman or wait for someone to get around to answering an email RFQ, I wouldn't be shopping on the web, and you have no business being there. I know that prices vary, and I don't expect them to be perfectly accurate, but you'd damned well better show me typical pricing if you want me to spend two seconds on your product page.
Will Rogers never met me.
Yeah, that annoys me too. I wonder if they do that too gauge how much they can gouge future customers.
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I-am-Learning wrote:
we cant manage small simple thing s yet
Speak for youself. I have no trouble with lots of small things, simple things, large things, complex things. My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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I-am-Learning wrote:
we cant manage small simple thing s yet
Speak for youself. I have no trouble with lots of small things, simple things, large things, complex things. My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
That's what happens when you try to model a chaotic system. ;)
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
That's what happens when you try to model a chaotic system. ;)
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Sure it is! I'm also fairly certain women have a reality distortion cortex to obfuscate all that structure.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
My biggest failing is in my inability to understand women.
That's what happens when you try to model a chaotic system. ;)
I tend to go with a reactive approach. It's simple: "Uh huh. Yes dear. Whatever you say dear. I'm sorry." Those sentences cover just about everything, apart from: "No. Your bottom is perfect, no matter what you wear." Mrs Yoda and I are celebrating 25 years this year, so I must have got something right with those sentences.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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I tend to go with a reactive approach. It's simple: "Uh huh. Yes dear. Whatever you say dear. I'm sorry." Those sentences cover just about everything, apart from: "No. Your bottom is perfect, no matter what you wear." Mrs Yoda and I are celebrating 25 years this year, so I must have got something right with those sentences.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
show me the product specifications and price
That's precisely what I want from every website. If I have to talk to a salesman, or request a quote from your site, you've lost the sale. Period. If I have time to chat with a pitchman or wait for someone to get around to answering an email RFQ, I wouldn't be shopping on the web, and you have no business being there. I know that prices vary, and I don't expect them to be perfectly accurate, but you'd damned well better show me typical pricing if you want me to spend two seconds on your product page.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I tend to go with a reactive approach. It's simple: "Uh huh. Yes dear. Whatever you say dear. I'm sorry." Those sentences cover just about everything, apart from: "No. Your bottom is perfect, no matter what you wear." Mrs Yoda and I are celebrating 25 years this year, so I must have got something right with those sentences.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
I would get annoyed being placated like that all the time. Guess women don't have that problem. :)
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I want to buy an air conditioner, and since I've had good experience with Panasonic units in the past, I am strolling through Panasonic India website. All I see there is marketing bullshit with a lot of nonsensical writing accompanied by stupid pictures of air conditioners sweeping blue coloured air all around it like a swirling hurricane. The contents in their website try hard to convince me how awesome their technology is, and how they've broken new grounds and how they will capture this world with their air conditioners. I want a frockin' button on their website, which would just show me the product specifications and price, for the fact that nothing else matters. But, there's no way to find it. So, I've to remember the model numbers that I'm interested in (like OMGLOL-KA-MEGA-AWSUM-DOUCHE4385) and call up their customer care or a showroom find out the price of each model. No, thanks. So, it's either a Hitachi or Samsung now. They're both equally good as well (Hitachi being slightly better, in fact), and have straightforward, useful information on their websites.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
I am strolling through Panasonic India website
There is your mistake; you need to find a dealer or retailer. The official distributors often are not allowed to sell directly to the customers or give them the prices.
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Yeah, that annoys me too. I wonder if they do that too gauge how much they can gouge future customers.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
gauge how much they can gouge
Do you use a gouge gauge to measure that? ;P
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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I-am-Learning wrote:
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Watch it with those emoticons. The Lounge is supposed to be KSS.
Nice catch!
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
gauge how much they can gouge
Do you use a gouge gauge to measure that? ;P
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
That would be gaudy name for that ghoulish gizmo.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
I am strolling through Panasonic India website
There is your mistake; you need to find a dealer or retailer. The official distributors often are not allowed to sell directly to the customers or give them the prices.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
The official distributors often are not allowed to sell directly to the customers or give them the prices.
Official distributors can't what? :confused: I'm talking about their website. How exactly are Samsung and Hitachi able to put up their prices on their websites, and why only Panasonic can't do it is beyond me.
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
There is your mistake; you need to find a dealer or retailer.
No, I don't *need* to find a dealer or retailer. I'm the consumer, and I am free to buy what I want from any manufacturer that I think cater well to my requirements. My requirement is that I know the prices and specifications of their products so that I can shortlist a number of items before I visit their dealer or their showroom. I can't be arsed to find a retailer and talk to them to just know the price or specs. Before anything else, I'd like to know the specs and prices. If they can't put up the prices of their products in their website, they've lost me as a customer. Because someone else is doing that for me.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
show me the product specifications and price
That's precisely what I want from every website. If I have to talk to a salesman, or request a quote from your site, you've lost the sale. Period. If I have time to chat with a pitchman or wait for someone to get around to answering an email RFQ, I wouldn't be shopping on the web, and you have no business being there. I know that prices vary, and I don't expect them to be perfectly accurate, but you'd damned well better show me typical pricing if you want me to spend two seconds on your product page.
Will Rogers never met me.
Exactly my sentiments, but worded better than me. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I want to buy an air conditioner, and since I've had good experience with Panasonic units in the past, I am strolling through Panasonic India website. All I see there is marketing bullshit with a lot of nonsensical writing accompanied by stupid pictures of air conditioners sweeping blue coloured air all around it like a swirling hurricane. The contents in their website try hard to convince me how awesome their technology is, and how they've broken new grounds and how they will capture this world with their air conditioners. I want a frockin' button on their website, which would just show me the product specifications and price, for the fact that nothing else matters. But, there's no way to find it. So, I've to remember the model numbers that I'm interested in (like OMGLOL-KA-MEGA-AWSUM-DOUCHE4385) and call up their customer care or a showroom find out the price of each model. No, thanks. So, it's either a Hitachi or Samsung now. They're both equally good as well (Hitachi being slightly better, in fact), and have straightforward, useful information on their websites.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
What are you talking about? Panasonic India website clearly have the specs for all products. I just tried. Sure they dont have prices but they *do* have specs. -Saurabh
