aleksl - 8:09 pm on Sep 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

zett, that just proves a point that it is MODERATELY DIFFICULT - as opposed to general opinion of business owners and most developers that it is easy - to build a proper shopping cart.

And as mentioned by tangour, you are buying a $3000 item, you better be prepared to register. See...you look at it as a customer who has money and wants a product and doesn't want to deal with issues; but it is way harder than that on business end. A business may get 10 fraudulent requests on this product a month, and would have to screen every order. Or he'll be out of $3000 AND a PC in no time.

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IMHO as all this Web 2.0 stuff blows over, and 90% of these companies go bust, a good thing that'll hopefully come out of it is better overall web usability. And that'll eventually trickle down to free and "almost free" tools like shopping carts.
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+ to what incrediBill said. having open source carts put a lot of businesses on the web, alright ;) but a demand for good carts is there, so most of the cost is hidden in the need to hire a programmer to build the cart into something that suits your particular need. which, in a sense, may be the right way forward...