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How to annoy customers looking to spend multiple thousands of dollars

Allow them to complete the entire order process, and then present them with the following screen at the last step. Continue doing this for a few hours.

We're sorry - We are experiencing
some technical problem

Clearly you shouldn't run any business critical systems on Dell and certainly don't employ anyone who lists "Dell Website Developer" on their resume.

posted at: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:20 | in /code/badcode | permalink | add comment (0 others)

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