Matt

Also I can’t help but think about Barry Schwartz’s talk on why more is less and what it means for decision making. With so much more choice now, how are you gals ever going to make your mind up and choose which red strapless shoe you want when they’re all so alike? Most woman I know are terrible at decision making as things stand!
But hell so long as people know what they want, can find it, it’s all good.

But - the celeb focussed entry point is just one of the options in. You can just go in via Browse Shoes or Browse Handbags if you want to find your own style I just think the celeb entry point is an interesting one, and I think it will work for a lot of people some of the time.

oh, and what Lela said.

oh, and I do *need* some of those brown knee highboots that Cheryl was talking about otherwise my legs and feet are SERIOUSLY going to freeze off. (Although, come to think of it, some of Britney’s ugg boots seem like an excellent plan right about now)

I think this rather proves our point that you need a certain amount of domain knowledge to really get what’s cool about this site

Ahh well I’m happy to contribute to what’s wrong with the world cos I love this site - I’ve just wasted a good couple of hours playing with it and sent it around the office.

It’s not so much the celebrity connection as they have endless funds to purchase new things but because I’m quite fussy about my clothes, shoes, etc, I usually have a good idea of what I want before I go shopping rather than shopping and seeing something I like. I get quite frustrated as what I want is never for sale or I’m a couple of seasons too late, and I have to really hunt for it.

This site is great as I can say that I want brown knee high boots, with a stiletto heel and then shop based on look and price - something next to impossible to do in the shops in Australia as there isn’t that much volume. If I was in a shop I’d be grateful if they even sold a pair of boots, let alone the type I want.

Curse you Lisa, I am never going to pay off my credit card at this rate!

I’m probably nothing like the target market but I find myself disgusted at people bragging about the ocean-boiling computing power required to allow people to purcase yet more trinkets that they don’t need.

If anything the world needs technology to allow us to buy less.

The only reason I would use this site would be to make sure that whatever I purchased had *not* been trussed on some dubious ’star’ who’s only claim to fame is that they are famous for being famous and according to the gossip mags, have more problems and bad habits than average which is supposed to make me feel better about myself.

If this site allowed me to guarantee that what I was about to purchase had not previously been sullied by one of those plague potatoes then I would gladly preach its usefulness.

For now this site goes into my “now this is exactly what is wrong with the world today” bin.