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Rent.com is pushy and annoying
Ajax and the Lightbox effect gone bad. Rent.com forces me to “create a password” to “keep my activities private” - when all I’m doing is trying to browse. Plus, they remind me that I haven’t claimed my $100 reward. I have no way to continue until I fill in that password. The funny thing is, on the initial landing page for this property (I got to the page before this one from a Google search results page), I explicitly told them that I didn’t want any $100 reward. Come on eBay, you can do better than this.
And do you think I filled in that password? Or did you lose a transaction and customer due to your Used Car Salesman approach?
Published on November 3rd, 2006 by Gino Zahnd under Interaction Design. There are 2 parts to the discussion so far.
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I can’t believe it - just now I was browsing my ISP’s site for support, and a little screen drops down. I browsed
another section - and the thing slipped down the screen again.
How unbelievably obtrusive, jarring and unnecessary. Peeps: just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Let’s lose the AJAXy salesman approach. Go back to well places targets on the page.
View larger screencapture here.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:54 amIt seems to me that this is the black-framed-glasses wearing version of the epilepsy-inducing flashing banner ads we all suffered in 1996.
Except this time, it’s Web2.0, dontchaknow?
December 7th, 2006 at 5:47 am