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Does this piss anyone else off when online shopping '27 people are also looking at this'...'selling fast,100 sold already today' etc.

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Farmageddon · 28/05/2023 20:31

I feckin hate those messages that come up when you're browsing clothes online telling me how popular an item is. Why are they everywhere all of a sudden?
It doesn't make want to buy the thing, it's actually really off-putting - like the online version of a pushy sales person.

Anyone else hate this or just me?

OP posts:
Tiddlywinkly · 28/05/2023 20:35

Yes. I remember when John Lewis started doing it and I thought, '' You've gone downhill''.

Xrays · 28/05/2023 20:37

Yeah I hate it too. Can’t even see the bloody thing for the words over the top of it! And it doesn’t make me want the thing any more - couldn’t give a shiny shit if 373747473 people want it too!

Rummikub · 28/05/2023 20:37

I hate this too
esp as the text covers the image of the item!

Original poster
Farmageddon · 28/05/2023 20:41

Yes, thank you - I'm not going crazy!
Who decided that customers wanted to be bothered by more pop up shite while we're browsing...grrr.
It also sometimes makes me not want to buy some stuff as if it's too popular surely everyone's going to be wearing it. I just hate feeling pressured to buy stuff.

OP posts:
Junenearlyhere · 28/05/2023 21:16

Yes I agree.

zurala · 28/05/2023 21:27

Totally agree. It really pisses me off. And it's always on top of the bloody picture!

Meredusoleil · 28/05/2023 21:31

Hate them.

What's worse is with some websites, if you so much as click on an item, you later get am email saying "Take another look" as they've been tracking what you've been doing on there!

Or if you leave things in your basket to go back to at a later stage, you get "Did you forget something?"

FFS - just piss off!

FiveShelties · 28/05/2023 21:33

I hate it too and makes me think I do not want the item as everyone is going to be wearing it.

RockaLock · 28/05/2023 21:45

Although if I'm looking at a link that someone on here has posted, and it says "40 people are looking at this right now", I always smile to myself and wonder how many of the 40 people are also reading the same MN thread Smile

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/05/2023 21:50

Yes it really annoys me too

AngelasAirpods · 28/05/2023 21:51

I hate this too! It just makes me impatient and I end up clicking out of their site. I DGAF how many are looking at the item or how many were sold today. Really annoying.

Hamfish · 28/05/2023 21:57

I can’t bear the emails - hey Sheila, you’ve forgotten something. No I haven’t. I left because I didn’t want it.

And agree, sometimes the pushy xx people are looking at it makes some weird part of me refuse to buy it as I don’t want ‘them’ to feel I’ve been persuaded!

Chispazo · 28/05/2023 22:02

YEH, it makes me panic. I think ''now I can't decide if I want this or if I'm succumbing to pressure not to lose it'' so I just click away. hate a goldrush.

Ollybob · 28/05/2023 22:08

So annoying! I want to look at the picture or maybe click on the next photo but no I have to wait while the pop up gets in the bloody way!

aliasname · 28/05/2023 22:16

The only time I found it useful was recently an item I looked had already sold out of other sizes; there were apparently only 7 of my size left.

I went back the next day, and there were only 4 left which prompted me to place an order quickly. I've no idea if they were being honest about it or if it was just a gimmick.

But the "47 other people are looking at this right now!" is annoying

Diorinthecountry · 28/05/2023 22:18

I absolutely hate them. I honestly don't care how many have sold or how many people are looking at the item. They are so annoying, cover up the thing you are trying to look at. A few times I have just left without buying.

YesYesAllGood · 28/05/2023 22:19

YES

KohlaParasaurus · 28/05/2023 22:20

Yes, it's annoying, and makes me want to navigate away. It reminds me of the stress I used to feel when a box flashed up in the corner of the screen at work telling me I had 267 new tasks.

LolaSmiles · 28/05/2023 22:20

It's done deliberately to prompt impulse shopping. It's the same as the endless postage offers on some fast fashion sites eg free postage over £30 until (insert countdown clicker) then when that ends another one is live.

JaceLancs · 28/05/2023 22:21

Yes it just stops me buying from them

Floralys2 · 28/05/2023 22:24

It's a load of bullshit and there to make you speed up your purchase

You don't want Linda in South Shields to buy the last one now do you

Ignore it, nobody else is looking right now and nobody else has just bought one

IglesiasPiggl · 28/05/2023 22:29

I absolutely hate this. I once got so fed up with John Lewis that I deliberately looked up a really obscure item, and it still said it was "trending". I think their definition of trending must be incredibly generous!

DramaAlpaca · 28/05/2023 22:41

It puts me off. If everyone else wants a thing, I don't!

It's the same with fragrance. If I'm sampling in a shop and the SA tells me it's popular and a bestseller, I tell them, very politely, that it puts me off. I want something a bit different.

MonumentalLentil · 28/05/2023 22:45

When I am looking for something and a message pops up 'John from Brighton bought this at 5.00 pm' and every time I open a page 'Bought by Freda from Finchley' 'Bought by Esmerelda from Norfolk' guaranteed to make me look elsewhere. In fact I have gone to the trouble of contacting the company to tell them so.

tobee · 28/05/2023 22:49

Yes I hate the faux mateyness. "We caught you browsing! 😉😉" from Next.

That's reminded me to turn the app notifications off.

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