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I have just spent the last half hour trying to buy tickets on the Ticketmaster website. I get to the final page and hit submit order and then nothing happens. It doesn't even say I have made an error in entering any of the required information, it just does nothing. I really hate their site with a passion. It is a pain to use to use in every conceivable way but for practically every event I want to go to it is the only option to buy tickets.

Is there any site worse than this one?

Sorry for the lack of random capitals and sweary words.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 9:34 am
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New Bikeradar.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 9:35 am
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But at least I am not trying to buy stuff off the Bikeradar site


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 9:38 am
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student finance

superstar - can't enter their front door unless your browser supports flash


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:25 am
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Co-op online banking.

Looks like someone knocked it up from raw HTML in about 1998.

Functionality (or lack thereof) is woeful.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:32 am
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llama ...Superstar, search for component they sell and get past the 1st page using that link instead of the stupid front page


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:34 am
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Superstar's new website is a fun place to try and buy stuff.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:40 am
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Another vote for superstar. They must have lost a lot of sales with this insanely bad change. The site is dire, dropdowns lead to pop-ups which repeat the dropdown with some products taking you on a dropdown loop of madness until you forget what you needed and go make coffee (drink all the beer) instead.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:47 am
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Got to love that Warner Brothers are still paying to host this site.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Hasn't changed design since 1996.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:50 am
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B&Qs is horrific. +1 for Superstar


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:53 am
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[url= http://www.lingscars.com/ ]Lingscars[/url]
very successful but gives me a headache.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 10:55 am
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+ 1 for COOP banking website
Superstar and Chain Reaction do see overly complicated


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:00 am
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Lingscars

That website is incredible


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:02 am
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Gumtree, from a mobile device.

Just crap, although after reading something on here yesterday, I suspect it's probably intentionally shonky as the site owner is eBay.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:05 am
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UKIP website...the presentation is okay, but it's full of shit.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:11 am
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Lingscars
That website is incredible

YES!


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:15 am
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Lingcars is just great for how awful it is. Just madness on a webpage. I wonder what they are like as a company as the website must be intentional


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:19 am
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the website must be intentional

It is. I don't know as it was to begin with, but it certainly is now.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 11:26 am
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[i]Gumtree, from a mobile device.

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and from a PC


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:19 pm
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Yep, know a ex-Lingscar developer - it's all intentional!


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:19 pm
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Ryanair. Designed by cheapskate con-men for the exploitation of cheapskate idiots


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:21 pm
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Parcel Farces website informs you that it doesn't support Mac based browsers. Its handy that nobody uses any Apple products to get online nowadays then eh? 🙄


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:26 pm
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Recreational Pharmacuticals and LingCars.... Happy Daze ..

Once upon a time the STW massive was hammering a Mobile Disco website that was built on an Atari, it was that bad....


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:32 pm
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Wiggle


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:34 pm
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This is a website where the content is regularly maintained. It is also the preserving the Internet of the 1990s.

http://fabricland.co.uk

As a sewer, Fabric Land is actually a well-used website and is popular with many fabric shoppers.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:37 pm
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Parcel Farces website informs you that it doesn't support Mac based browsers. Its handy that nobody uses any Apple products to get online nowadays then eh?

Pah, TNT's B2B website used to require you to use a specific version of internet explorer with a specific version of Acrobat Reader and a specific version of JRE. All of which were about 5 years out of date. It was almost impossible to upload manifest files because you spent the whole time getting rid of pop-ups telling you that the system was out of date.


 
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Autotrader! I spend far too long on there...


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:40 pm
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Beneath the visual horror that is Lings cars, it's actually one of the best I've used. Everything you need is right there in front of you. It's remarkably easy to navigate and it just works perfectly. I leased my car from there and it was an absolute doddle. Other leasing websites are almost downright misleading. Ling is completely transparent.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:48 pm
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[url= http://www.offmotorway.com/ ]This one[/url] is a stonker, which is annoying because the content is actually quite useful.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 12:57 pm
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edf energy's website.

Just switched to them, but trying to enter my initial meter reading and got nowhere. The website kept telling me I wasn't authorised and kicked me out to the log in page. Tried several times, then got a phone call from Scottish Power saying sorry you're leaving, we can offer you X deal, which is Y% cheaper than edf's if you stay with us.

Given I've had no issues with Scottish Power's website and fell at the first hurdle with edf energy I have gone back to Scottish Power.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:02 pm
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This is a website where the content is regularly maintained. It is also the preserving the Internet of the 1990s.

http://fabricland.co.uk

On that note, this site is also amazing...

[url= http://www.webkinglasvegas.com/ ]www.webkinglasvegas.com/[/url]

Don't worry it's safe for work, just not your eyes!


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:07 pm
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BBC sIgh Player


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:10 pm
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Re Lings Cars, as above it is entirely intentional. As a site (if you look past the visual stuff) the UX is pretty good really.

She (Ling) once spoke at a web dev conference a colleague attended and came on stage in a dalek...

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:11 pm
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New Bikeradar.

It really baffles me why they put that picture of the editor at the bottom. Who do they think wants to see him? Why is it there?


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:15 pm
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Lings is like that on purpose, and works for them.

Superstar's new website is crap because for some unknown reason they decided on some weird convoluted product selection process that no one has seen before and is far from intuitive, never mind needing a thousand clicks just to make a simple wheel configuration selection, for example. madness. never mind the fact that on mobile devices, it barely works.

[url= http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/02/online-shopping-mobiles-overtakes-desktop ]

With over half of all e-retail traffic now coming via smartphones and tablet devices, the latest results reveal a huge landmark in the growth of mobile commerce.
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so I vote superstar, mainly because they proclaimed it was going to be great and loads better than their previous. And it's just far far worse.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:27 pm
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New Bikeradar looks OK but really does not play well with Chrome on my iPad or iPhone, keeps crashing and/or not loading at all.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:35 pm
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+1 Superstar.I ordered two sets of wheels in the past from their e mailshots but when the new mailshots arrive I cant even find what they say is on offer!Tried to price up some wheelsets for comparison the other day and just gave up.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:44 pm
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Ling was on Dragon's Den years ago.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 1:47 pm
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It really baffles me why they put that picture of the editor at the bottom. Who do they think wants to see him? Why is it there?

Oh. That's who that is, I did wonder.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 3:05 pm
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Ebay and gumtree mobile are both shit.

IIRC you can't sort by distance in search results, most annoying.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 3:11 pm
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You can with eBay.

[img] [/img]

and also filter by nearest first:

[img] [/img]

Might need to be logged in.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 3:34 pm
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Surprised nobody has nominated Singletrack yet. Dreadful adverts unless you log in and have a "P" after your forum name

+1 for Co-Op on line banking and Superstar though.

Can't say CRC is my first internet bike shop port of call either, only due to their web site.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 8:27 pm
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This is pretty awesome.

http://www.bsjcycles.co.uk/#!about/cquc


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 8:33 pm
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I'd like to nominate [url= http://bittervirtue.co.uk ]BitterVirtue[/url] - although there are some more worthy nominees above. Just because they REALLY could do much better for their shop. And they just don't care. But they do sell good beer - even though they have a RUBBISH website.


 
Posted : 05/09/2014 8:48 pm
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Co-op online banking.

Looks like someone knocked it up from raw HTML in about 1998.

Functionality (or lack thereof) is woeful.


I like the website for that reason! Quick to load, works fine, no whizz bang crap...


 
Posted : 06/09/2014 6:06 am
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B&Q
Halfords
Any website with a zoomable panable map embedded within the page.


 
Posted : 06/09/2014 6:47 am
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Any website that when loading on my iPad jumps around, then when you've finally clicked on the part you want a survey ad pops up and you click on that instead 😡


 
Posted : 06/09/2014 6:53 am

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