ippimail: Shopping does work
Simon Martin, founder of ippimail, was good enough to contact me and help me work out why their shopping interface wasn’t working for me.
As the instructions (that I didn’t read) say, "click through on the banners to reach the shop in question".
I wasn’t seeing any banners. That, of course, is because I run Adblock Plus. I had it disabled on ippimail itself, so I can support ippimail, but obviously not on "shop.ippimail.com". As soon as I disabled it appropriately, I saw the ads, and I was able to click-through.
The interface is disadvantaged, in that I can’t search directly for the product I want, but I’m not sure what ippimail can do about that at the moment. I’ll just have to find my product; then go back to ippimail and search for the shop in which I found it. It’s a nuisance to have to do that, but worth it again to support the good causes. The only way I can see that they would be able to do it, would be to have an interface like froogle; but they’re just not at that stage yet.
I’m going to give it a shot, though, and see whether the shops selling my chosen gifts are in their list.
Related posts:
- ippimail: Free Software web-mail with a feel-good factor
- ippimail: Backstory
- ippimail: An interview with co-founder Simon Martin
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