I wanted to get my wife something cool for her birthday, but the gift I wanted to buy proved nearly impossible to find from a trustworthy source. I was going to get her a high end autographed item, but who should I buy it from?
- The not for profit site that is down, requiring you to buy through the payment link inside of Google’s cache
- The site with Google Checkout and Google AdSense on their home page
- The site with a sleazy Clickbank affiliate ad for how to steal stuff
- The site with no money back guarantee
- The site with a design that looks like I created it in January 2003 (my first month on the web)
- The eBay member with 0 reputation
- The eBay member that takes a month and a half to ship
- The eBay member selling authentic lithographs
- The eBay member selling the item used
While I listed the above faults as though each was a different site, many of the sites actually suffered from multiple trust eating offenses. I consider myself a savvy searcher and yet these were the best sites I could find for what I wanted to buy. Because of the price-point I was unwilling to trust any of them enough to buy.
At lower price points we are more likely to let little things slide, but almost every site undermines conversion rates. A year from now I will probably look back on this post and laugh at some of the things I was screwing up today.
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