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EldRick · 06-29-2011, 02:43 PM

While trying to order a Touch, I repeatedly got this after going through all of the shopping cart screens:

"We're sorry, but due to technical difficulties we cannot place your order at this time."

Not a good way to drive sales, and since my local Borders STILL doesn't have stock, they sure don't make it easy to do biz...

And BTW, for the web site programmers: Do Not require the customer to enter information in non-usual formats, it causes endless errors.
I'm referring to the need to enter a phone number as ten digits without any punctuation at all - that's just truly lazy programming, with little consideration for the customer interaction.

06-29-2011, 02:43 PM	#1
EldRick Evangelist Posts: 470 Karma: 112801 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Aura H2O (i86, M96C, Mini&Glo, PRS-950, STR, K-Touch, K-DX, K-3)	Border's "store" doesn't work? While trying to order a Touch, I repeatedly got this after going through all of the shopping cart screens: "We're sorry, but due to technical difficulties we cannot place your order at this time." Not a good way to drive sales, and since my local Borders STILL doesn't have stock, they sure don't make it easy to do biz... And BTW, for the web site programmers: Do Not require the customer to enter information in non-usual formats, it causes endless errors. I'm referring to the need to enter a phone number as ten digits without any punctuation at all - that's just truly lazy programming, with little consideration for the customer interaction. Last edited by EldRick; 06-29-2011 at 02:56 PM.