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scipio
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Posted - Jan 26 2002 : 6:49AM

Hello all, back from my vacation in NZ, and just had a look at the spiffily redesigned comparison cart and cart transferry stuff. Nice work (Drew I presume?) the new design is much more attractive.

There are a few things I noticed that might want to be tweaked, if you feel like it:~

They might not be noticible to most people, but since I have about 80 items in my Comparison Cart at the moment.. (not sure if this is wildly unusual, I use it as a catch-all want-list rather than typing in lists, I trim it down according to prices and stock availability as I go through the steps of purchasing)

The Stock Status window can no longer be resized. There's a scrolly-bar, but I tend to make the stock window run the vertical length of the screen, so I can see as much of the potential order fodder as possible.

When checking stock just now, I got the following error message:

Another thing that came to mind would be perhaps the option to sort the different stores in a user preference order? This is because many of us ADTer's have preferred stores we use for our orders, especially International Customers, and if our top few stores are able to be personally set to display up top, it'd be that much nicer and easier. Not sure if it's doable or not of course, but I thought I'd throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.

Seeing the stores in order of stock availability is a great idea as a default however, especially for US customers that have more of a breadth of scope for the stores they can use, with shipping and customs issues far less of a hassle.

Finally, I noticed that a name search on a title no longer allows it to be put straight in the comparison cart. You now have to go through the "compare prices" window. Because I check the site pretty much daily or close to daily I was one to always throw things straight in the cart if it's something I'm likely to buy, and sort out the finer details when I was about to place an order.

Even though this post could be taken as poking at the system, please don;t take it as suck. It's input because I like the way ADT works and I like to contribute by making suggestions and offering opinion.

cheers,

scipio

scipio
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Posted - Jan 26 2002 : 6:51AM
hey it won't let me edit my post to fix my typos....
scipio
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Posted - Jan 26 2002 : 7:08AM
ooh.. just noticed that the redone comparison cart is hyperlinked by both title and producer. VERY nicely done, Drew!
Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 26 2002 : 12:16PM
This won't be an issue in the near future when I add the multi-cart funtionality. I didn't forget about it. I've just been working on a whole new section of the site we'll be launching early next week.
I'm not sure what's causing this. If there's a scroll bar then your browser should allow you to scroll.
Yeah, I've got a script timeout value set on that page. I didn't anticipate someone using it with 80 items. The reason it takes so long is my server actually goes out and makes an HTTP request for the product page at the store. It then parses the resulting HTML code to read the stock status. If the store's server responds slowly (as some of them tend to do) then it takes a really long time to go out and check stock causing the script to time out on our server. This is a safety measure so we don't have errant pages running endlessly in the background.
I thought about adding this when redoing the price search. I passed on the idea because it would require a much more extensive set of user profile management pages. I didn't want to tackle that task at the same time. I'll keep it in mind for the future though.
I can't do this one. We don't actually store stock status in the database. Stock status is derived real-time over the internet as described. Many of the stores in the price search don't have real-time stock status either and therefore would have to always be at the bottom of the list (or excluded from the price search completely.)
I've had two other requests to add the 'add to cart' link back to the price search summary results pages. We replaced that link with a 'compare prices' link because (believe it or not) some users didn't realize that there was a comparison page. They thought the entire price search function was comprised of just the search results with a singular price listed. We made the change in an attempt to draw these users further into the site's functionality.


I do appreciate the feedback. Steph and I spend countless hours trying to make this place more enjoyable and easier to use for the people that visit us. Without feedback like this we have no good way to know if it's time well spent.

scipio
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Posted - Jan 26 2002 : 6:21PM
Hi Drew,
I mean I -can- scroll up and down, but I can no longer resize the window.
The main reason I've been using it with all the titles "active" is so it picks up any wild drops in price at the stores, for example if title X is usually $22.95 but store Y has it on a quiet sale for $9.99 I can grab it while it's cheap.
I actually meant it the way they're -now- sorted by default. As in which stores stock which titles (not counting what's IN stock right at that moment, which is in the lap of the gods)
ahh I see. hm.. well if there's a way that would allow both options to be there I'd be all for it. Yopu know that extra mouse-click might kill me. ;) Perhaps have the "compare prices" link in bold and "add to cart" in a teeny-weeny font?

cheers,

scipio

 
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Posted - Jan 27 2002 : 9:55AM
scipio - I think i can fit a cart icon on the search results page. If the majority of people would transition to a resolution higher than 80 hex 600 it would be a hell of a lot easier to design stuff.
scipio
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Posted - Jan 27 2002 : 9:44PM
Yeap, I used to have the same problems with my own Web Gallery pages, eventually I just went with what I found looked good on the Mac, of course my pages were a hobby thing, so it's a tad easier to just say "to hell with everyone but me" on something like that as opposed to a commercial/consumer site like ADT.

cheers,

scipio

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Posted - Jan 30 2002 : 1:08PM
another vote for adding the "add to cart" link back onto the initial results page. it's really handy when somebody has a big sale, such as 5 star's evil angel sale right now.
scipio
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Posted - Feb 4 2002 : 7:40PM
Whoops I wasn't clear there. I -can- scroll. I -can- maximise the window to take up the full screen.

What I can no longer do is to grab the bottom right corner of the window and make the window the same width, but run the vertical length of the screen, to fit all of the items in within view at a glance.


cheers,

scipio

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