a love letter to MCM Electronics
Dear MCM Electronics,
I would dearly love to give you my money. In fact, I am literally sitting here with my credit card in hand, primed to type in the magical numbers on its face that would instantly transfer a sum of money to your bank from mine.
Perhaps that's why you are making it impossible to put what I want in my cart. After all, you're a huge electronics wholesaler with an
eye-gougingly terribly designed web-site, and I'm some guy in Seattle. Hell,
you don't need my business! Apparently, I can just go ahead and fuck off!
I understand, I've made it hard on you. Rather than endure your hilariously slow search engine, I've gone directly to the product pages. How
dare I do such a thing! In response, you have, perfectly reasonably, caused the contents of my cart to change randomly depending on which part of the site I'm in. That'll teach
me to try and bypass the morass of uncategorized and product picture-less crap that you call a site! After all, who needs
pictures? Doesn't
everyone instantly understand what
33404 - T-HANDLE HEX 3.0 X 150MM T-HANDLE HEX 3.0 X 150MM T-HANDLE HEX 3.0 X 150MM is supposed to mean? Screw them if they're not the kind of autist who memorizes product numbers for fun. MCM doesn't need
their money!
Love, bbot.
But seriously, folks, I absolutely
cannot wait until someone like
Newegg, someone who, in short,
knows how to run an e-commerce site, comes out of nowhere and blows
these dinosaurs out of the water. Protip, guys! If you feature your
paper catalog on the front page of you
web site, then you are a fucking
fossil, and should do us all a favor and
die.
If people are writing their
own search engines to navigate the sea of crap that is your catalog, and receiving
great press as well as piles of money, then you are
doing it wrong.
Ugh!