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Subject: Re: UKNM: Realtime sharedealing's not us
From: Nabil Shabka
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:27:46 GMT

One thing to remember about the Schwab site, it's not just a share
dealing service. They have to 'know' their investors, hence all these
forms and the wait. You can do far more with Schwab than you can with
the Lloyds service. No, I have no affiliation with Schwab and am about
to take the online plunge myself with them.

Nabil

Robin Edwards wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 05, 1999 10:53 AM, Darren Wallace
> [SMTP:darrenatcommercenet [dot] org [dot] uk] wrote:
> >
> > On Monday I had my first experience of selling shares.
>
> Thanks for sharing that with us Darren (sorry, sorry, sorry - couldn't resist)
>
> It is a brilliantly illustrated point though. So often in our evangelising we
> (as a group) miss out on trying some of the poor examples of implementing
> e-commerce. There are so many examples of supposedly real-time systems wrapped
> up in red tape or clumsy navigation, even some of those that are held in high
> regard in terms of their (potential) commercial success.
>
> So often it is a case of a beautiful online marketing job backed up by a
> dreadful web site. Right now I know of someone trying to generate hype and
> interest for a site that really should be a lot better :-(
>
> In theory it should be an easy thing to spot in advance. If a web site is
> replacing or duplicating the functionality of an offline system, then during
> the specification, production or testing phase it will become apparent if the
> site makes the function more difficult to perform than the offline system. In
> reality I assume things like bad planning, time and budget constraints, and a
> general failure to actually try the thing out on a sample target audience first
> is what gives us our current state of affairs.
>
> Anyone got any superb examples of online commerce? I've written about a few
> that have impressed me over the last 3 years for RetailWeek, but most have been
> better served by their offline counterparts.
>
> What about online banking? Does anyone have good experiences with that? I.e. is
> it more convenient than phoning your branch or walking into town?
>
> The most useful "sort of" commerce site I have come across in the last year or
> so has probably been Autotrader http://www.autotrader.co.uk
> but even that can't bridge the inconvenience of not actually having the funds
> to purchase the car of my dreams...
>
> Robin
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