On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:16:15PM +0000, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote:

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> Marco Peereboom wrote:

>

> >For me it is very simple; if your site has flash it means:

> [snip]

> >2. I will not purchase anything from you

>

> In my opinion it's not always that simple.

>

> Take skydiving equipment for example. This is a small and highly

> specialized market in which often few alternatives are available.

> When it comes to gear that my life is going to depend on, I'd much

> rather base my choice on the quality of the product itself than on

> the quality of the manufacturer's website, thank you. I refuse to

> say: "I'll buy that other parachute because even though I trust it

> less, at least the manufacturer doesn't have Flash on his website."

>

> Don't get me wrong, I hate the use of Flash when it has nothing

> substantial to add and I do try to point out to offending

> manufacturers that their websites basically just suck ass, but I for

> one can't afford the "you use Flash so I won't buy your stuff"

> attitude. I value my life a little bit too much for that. When

> buying cars, CDs or other everyday goods there are so many

> alternatives that you can safely avoid Flash and simply buy your

> stuff elsewhere, but with more specialized goods there often simply

> aren't enough (viable) alternatives to do so.

>

> Just my two cents,

> 

I know that if I had to buy something which had a direct impact on

me being dead or alive, I'd probably move my ass to the store, and

probably a few stores even, rather than just buying it on internet
Anyway, your comment seemed like most people spend their time buying

vital items, I assume they are not and most people are buying items

and using services which are available from various sites.
I understand marco and I have adopted the same attitude of not giving

money to companies which ... make it hard for me to give them my

money. If they don't want it, it's fine I'll buy from a competitor

which isn't an annoyance. I've had to change bank recently because

they turned their authentication into a flash interface that

forced me into keeping a dual boot and rebooting whenever I wanted

to check my account. There are competitors, they offer similar

services, more or less, why cope with the annoyance ?
Gilles
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