Re: UKNM: Lastminute.com...website or webhype?

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Ian Fenn wrote:

 > 

 > Chris wrote:

 >  >  >I quite agree.  Even if somebody does love you, what happens if you want

 > to

 >  >  >go away on your own for a few days?  Bargainholidays.com does the same

 >  >  >thing... no single person tariffs.

 >  >

 >  > To be fair, that's kind of a travel industry-wide thing tho.

 > 

 > Should web sites not do something different, rather than just copy off-line

 > businesses?

 > 


There is a limit! If you're a telly retailer and sony only makes black

TVs, 

being an online retailer doesn't suddenly allow you to sell pink sony

TVs. 


d'oh. 


 > 

 >  > Good travel sites should flag this up and, perhaps, offer two prices, one

 >  > based on single occupancy which includes the supplement, but then we'd be

 >  > living in an ideal world where rivers run with chocolates and databases

 > and

 >  > query results are re-designed to accomodate the fact that the person now

 >  > interrogating them is a 'dumb' user rather than a trained travel agent.

 > 

 > I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying I should accept

 > second-best?


No, you can do what you like. But if when I'm building a website, I find 

it's impossible to not make trade-offs about usability vs.

sophistication.


and I'd rather build a site that is simple for the 99% of users at the

expense of 1%


sorry, life is harsh. 


(not that my mum could figure out how to buy something from LMN in a

thousand years. usability. hmmm)


stefan

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