posted on December 10, 2003 03:41:07 AM new
This must be what the new EBay checkout looks like then! I guess you can't send an ebay invoice unless you enable check-out and you don't get "pay now" buttons unless you enable checkout...so back to square one Roadsmith - sorry to put you through all this.
I still don't know what is so "bad" about check-out. It really is "new and improved" and this invoicing right at auction end is a great feature.
posted on December 10, 2003 09:35:52 AM new
Neglus: I'm going to try using the invoice through Ebay Checkout soon.
I thank you and toasted very very much for trying to help me on this. I frustrate easily and get angry when "systems" like Ebay aren't set up understandably. (Daughter in Silicon Valley computer world says most are set up counter-intuitively rather than intuitively, and it makes her nuts.) ~Adele
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posted on December 10, 2003 10:14:55 AM new
One person's intuitive is another person's hopeless tangle.
Back in the days when I knew nothing about computers I could not get the hang of using a Mac. (This would have been a Mac Plus.) And my teachers couldn't understand why I just didn't get it.
Years later, after experience with PCs, Unix boxes, etc. my brand-new iMac seemed very simple and straightforward.
Remember: The people who design user interfaces ALREADY KNOW how to use computers. That colors everything they design.
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posted on December 10, 2003 11:49:50 AM new
Fluff, you are so right! Sometimes when my daughter has written (with engineers) some new software, they've given it to everyone in the company to try out, with a prize for whoever finds a bug in it. I've told her they need to give the new stuff to an amateur like me.
When she was showing me how to use Adobe photo editing software, about 5 years ago, she sat right here at the computer with me, walked me through it step by step, writing down the steps for me. Constantly I'd come to a new point in the program and she'd say I should do what seems logical to me, and half the time I was wrong. She said that's where the software people make the big mistakes. She is a wonderful teacher, God bless her.
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"In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have that child until you're at least 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three of these things wind up poor, but a staggering 79% of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty." ~William Galston
