Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: CP looking like RuntimeDNA???

seattletim opened this issue on Mar 05, 2006 ยท 24 posts


operaguy posted Sun, 05 March 2006 at 12:09 PM

I wrote a letter of complaint to Content Paradise because I thought, and still think, their method of displaying an item for sale is very inadequate. First, the webpage is JAMMED with 2 useless sidebars. This makes the area to show the content tiny. Second, vendors get away with showing almost no details of the products, only teasers. Third, in many cases vendors are armored-up. a) There often is no link to a read-me b) there is no email address to speak with the vendor c) There is no direct link to the vendor or a way to get ahold of them. Here is the letter I got back, polite enough. I think that CP should have some sort of explanation on their site of their "partnership/showcase/shoppingmall" paradigm. Hi John, I apologize for certain shortcomings in the function and design of Content Paradise, but it isn't another Content Store... It's more of a content mall. If you need to investigate a product more deeply than you can here, you actually have to go to the Content Store who's selling the item. We offer the top products sold at other content stores all in one place so you don't have to go to 25 different stores to hunt up what your want and need. If we had to support 20,000 products, and over 500 artists/vendors individually, the 4 person crew that operates Content Paradise would die of trauma and sleep deprivation in the first week. What makes us possible, is that we are an indirection of dozens of other stores. We are a service. Part of the price of that is flexibility. If you look at the Partners tab at the top of the screen, you'll find we provide the contact information for you to get all the additional support your need for any product that interests you. When you are selling 20,000 products your need to provide tools and support... and the number of products and customers is growing geometrically. So, I apologize that we aren't all things to all people... I realize that the individual strores can give you much better direct service for each product. That is why we invite you to contact them to get what you need. Content Paradise is a Content Mall. In that context it's clean, efficient, and beautifully designed... use it the way it's designed and you'll have a great time here :-) Mary Tobias