Anyone else find these web store notifications annoying, ridiculous and partially insulting?
I used to do marketing for a company and suggested people were smart and knew how to do math and i was constantly in the minority for not trying to ‘trick’ people.
I just have to laugh at all the ‘new marketing ideas’ people are coming up with
How about eBay, right after I watch an auction...
eBay will tell me "1 person has watched this auction in the last hour."
No shoot, Sherlock!
That 1 person was me!
A lot of the online vape stores have this now. Innovator should be shot.
Those notices are a useless distraction at best. If I were happy with the entire world, I guess I would be happy with them too. But I’m not.
I think they just scroll through about 20 of their last costumers. If you care enough, which I do not, you will see it repeat.
It is annoying.
If a website gets annoying enough, I just stop going there.
People can bitch’n’moan about Fasttech, but they have one of the most static and unchanging sites, and it doesn’t annoy the piss outta me.
AX really f’ed up their website with the “redesign”, and I don’t see them fixing anything. That and the fake “tax” pretty much got me not ordering from them in about a year.
So it’s really their choice, but they tend to not want to listen to criticism, even if it costs them customers. Guess they still got the numbers to not have to care.
Sorry but I have to agree with you. Fasttech has one of the most outdated among e-commerce shopping websites nowadays (Gearbest, Bangood. etc). It has literally minimal flashy banner. That being said, I really like it. Comparing to other sites that has thing pop-up nonstop or annoy ads pop-up on my Fb after shopping. Fasttech has none that I noticed.
However, I also Hate the fact Fasttech has tons of product that is Out of Stock that they still kept in the listing or catalog. Even with extensive search and filtering they still pop-up. You do not know if it in stock or not until the last check out step.
Personally, I’m bugged by AliExpress’s reincarnation of Clippy renamed as “Eva” popping up irrepressibly offering help on the “Manage Orders” page.
I still buy from FastTech, Intl-Outdoors and Simons AliExpress store.
With apologies to M4DM4X (who tries really hard to get us good deals) BangGood and Gearbest are are on my “no effin’ way” list.
Agree, done with the gamble of BG and GB
And ironically, those’re the only 2 that incessantly keep sending me emails.
BG, I think you’re subscribed for life for daily emails. GB only keeps pleading with me to order before my points expire.
My penultimate order at BG was in sept 2019, my last one was 9 days ago, I received no email in between. I’m only receiving email concerning the current order.
If you have uBlock Origin installed on your browser, you can get rid of the AliExpress Eva thing permanently. Right-click on it and “Block Element”. Really handy for all manner of annoyances.
Have you gotten a good block for the “ALERT: Someguy from Somewhere bought Something!!” type pop-ups like Neal’s site has?
Then again, I’ll probably not go back to Neal’s unless it’s for something only available there. (Probably the lume1 driver…)
Looks like uBlock Origin can do that one, too. It’s fairly generic, but you do sometimes have to fiddle with the block preview to pick the right element name to block.
You also have to do it for every site, because each one will be using a different element name for the popup. I tend to only do it for sites I use a lot - if I’m just in and out for one page, once only, I ignore the popup, because I’m not planning to come back anyway.
For NealsGadgets, try:
For AliExpress Eva, try:
Notice that when you select an element name in the dialog, the element gets highlighted, so you can try different elements until it only highlights the element you want to block (some elements will block too much, others won’t block enough).
If more than one element works, pick the one with the most complicated name - that makes it less likely you’ll accidentally take out something you wanted to keep on a different page.
A word of warning: there are sites that obfuscate things or change their names at random every time you reload the page. It’s a deliberate tactic to get past uBlock Origin and similar blocking systems.
Twitter are a particular offender in this area, their CSS web code is horrific. Absolutely littered with obfuscated identifiers.
“Someguy from Somewhere bought Something!!” is just as fugly as the “Customers who view this item also bought…”, “Bought together with…” or “You also viewed this recently” and numerous different variants. It’s all there to repeat the offer once more, keep you longer on the page and to reassure you the product is okay/legit because other people ‘also bought it’. A bit like the old “As seen on TV’. We should come up with a nice slogan for BLF! 
Sorry…it was me here in South Carolina that bought something somewhere. I will try to cut back to reduce the annoying messages.
Very useful, thanks.