Some online shopping sites are terrible even now. My pet hates: Shops that dont tell you postage until the very end, have features that don't work, shoping carts that time out after 2 mins so you lose everything in your basket, have browser specific sites, have a terrible layout and "hide" the checkout button from you, have no decent search feature..etc...
Good
among the best are Amazon (books,dvds,toys,music..etc..), Dabs (electronic stuff), CDwow (cd's, dvd's), AllofMp3 (downloadable music)...etc..please add your own to this thread..
Bad
Even ones i use regularly, could be improved - ebuyer.co.uk is a great bargain shop for a lot of computer and electronic stuff BUT their description of items is sometimes shockingly bad and their search is not very clever at all.
Comparison Sites
Shopping comparison sites can be useful but are one of the most annoying things on the web at the same time. why? becasue a search for an item or a review of an item invariably comes up with pages of links to these sites, which in turn allow you to search again when you realise the initial page is not quite what you searched form . What we really want is a list of places we can buy from. So for that reason its a good idea to START with a comparison site rather than a search engine - kelkoo, dealtime, froogle - there's plenty of them...
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