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MSY, a popular computer parts store in Australia, has always had a pretty dodgy-looking website. http://msy.com.au/ http://msy.com.au/

by barbs 13y ago

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C1D 13y ago
They're probably the most popular PC parts store in Australia (I've bought from them), yet it looks like they couldn't afford to upgrade their site template they created in 1997.
- robryan 13y ago
  Last time I went in there I was impressed that they had now invested in a few tables around their counter area.
vacri 13y ago
The funny thing is that they look more professional since the site redesign.
dolphenstein 13y ago
I think it's a deliberate ploy to seem cheap. They are expanding at a frenetic pace, so seems to be working!
tluyben2 13y ago
Might be something like this http://www.mtechlaptops.com/indexofnotebooks.htm http://www.mtechlaptops.com/indexofnotebooks.htm who actually tell you why that is; http://www.mtechlaptops.com/ugly_web_site.htm http://www.mtechlaptops.com/ugly_web_site.htm . Besides that; the co-founder (from Australia) of one of the companies I built and sold successfully, was always quite focused on making 'ugly' designs. We did split-testing with pixel perfect, really professional designs versus this 1995, quite ugly 'old' stuff and every time the ugly design won at conversions. This is the consumer space we were in. We tested many times it the 'ugly' design always won. Maybe times have changed (this is about 5 years ago), but it always makes a bit suspicious of that cry for the perfect design while it actually, again, at least then, had a averse effect. I still know of a few cases where the owner swears by amateur and ugly. The theory apparently is that a lot of people don't trust slick and believe they will be screwed somehow. Edit: another one I just thought off; marktplaats.nl (Dutch Ebay and owned by Ebay since 2004) has looked like this; http://web.archive.org/web/19991105082644/http://www.marktplaats.nl/ http://web.archive.org/web/19991105082644/http://www.marktpl... for a very long time. Everyone in the web design business thought it was horrible in many ways, but consumers refused to use anything else, including ebay.nl. They hardly touched the design until recently and it is still clear that they didn't want to piss the users off too much.

MSY, a popular computer parts store in Australia, has always had a pretty dodgy-looking website. http://msy.com.au/ http://msy.com.au/

by barbs 13y ago

MSY, a popular computer parts store in Australia, has always had a pretty dodgy-looking website. http://msy.com.au/ http://msy.com.au/

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C1D 13y ago

They're probably the most popular PC parts store in Australia (I've bought from them), yet it looks like they couldn't afford to upgrade their site template they created in 1997.

robryan 13y ago
Last time I went in there I was impressed that they had now invested in a few tables around their counter area.

vacri 13y ago

The funny thing is that they look more professional since the site redesign.

dolphenstein 13y ago

I think it's a deliberate ploy to seem cheap. They are expanding at a frenetic pace, so seems to be working!

tluyben2 13y ago

Might be something like this http://www.mtechlaptops.com/indexofnotebooks.htm http://www.mtechlaptops.com/indexofnotebooks.htm who actually tell you why that is; http://www.mtechlaptops.com/ugly_web_site.htm http://www.mtechlaptops.com/ugly_web_site.htm . Besides that; the co-founder (from Australia) of one of the companies I built and sold successfully, was always quite focused on making 'ugly' designs. We did split-testing with pixel perfect, really professional designs versus this 1995, quite ugly 'old' stuff and every time the ugly design won at conversions. This is the consumer space we were in. We tested many times it the 'ugly' design always won. Maybe times have changed (this is about 5 years ago), but it always makes a bit suspicious of that cry for the perfect design while it actually, again, at least then, had a averse effect. I still know of a few cases where the owner swears by amateur and ugly. The theory apparently is that a lot of people don't trust slick and believe they will be screwed somehow. Edit: another one I just thought off; marktplaats.nl (Dutch Ebay and owned by Ebay since 2004) has looked like this; http://web.archive.org/web/19991105082644/http://www.marktplaats.nl/ http://web.archive.org/web/19991105082644/http://www.marktpl... for a very long time. Everyone in the web design business thought it was horrible in many ways, but consumers refused to use anything else, including ebay.nl. They hardly touched the design until recently and it is still clear that they didn't want to piss the users off too much.