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Those Damn "Oh What Fun" AdChoice Ebay Flash Advertisements


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Whoever is the rotten bastard who designed this gawddamn thing, I have nothing but irritated contempt for you.

This thing has, on three different Windows PCs using three different major web browsers, consistently slowed down my transactions with every web page in which it is embedded. You, Sir or Madam, need a slap in the face and the clear understanding that super-duper advertisements bursting with interactivity will never outweigh the simple necessity of being able to browse the Internet without waiting for your fucking code to load.

It also proves to me your boss is incompetent, because that's the moron who approved the deployment of this thing. Did anyone test it? Did anyone see how it acted in Windows XP with more than a gig of RAM on Opera with a 3GHz Pentium IV chip? How about a crappy Dell laptop from 2002 running Firefox? Please, please take the ad down. Nice idea: terrible execution.

I clicked on "AdChoice" and I was taken to this page:

We may use information we have about you to make sure that the ads you see, on the eBay site or elsewhere, are as relevant to you as we can make them. We think these relevant AdChoice ads will personalize and improve your eBay experience. Any information we use for AdChoice follows the eBay Privacy Policy.

Listen up, Ebay: customer service means first and foremost not ticking off people who aren't even using your company's goods and services. People who are, in fact, not even remotely doing anything related to your company.

If nothing else, stop placing the ad in web-based e-mail like Yahoo!

Posted by drizzten on December 3, 2007 09:06 AM |

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very interesting, but I don't agree with you
Idetrorce

Posted by: Idetrorce | December 15, 2007 05:57 PM

niiice

Posted by: Lora | December 16, 2007 10:06 PM

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