Why 6.8% specifically?
Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
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Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not part of the DoD, but as I understand it a lot of entrenched usage of IE6 these days is usually internal apps. So, perhaps they use IE6 for private networks, and use IE8, Firefox, et al for public-facing workstations.
But IE6 won't even run on new versions of Windows. You'd need to run up a VM on a user's machine with a copy of XP. What's the refresh cycle at DoD? Two decades?
IE6 isn't the only XP-only app I have to use in my daily job, so it's entirely feasible that members of the DoD are still using XP.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#103Kogan really has a nice way to educate people to choose a better browser, but I think this will hurt his image a little bit.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#104I doubt their userbase using IE7 is large enough for this to be a big deal. This tax's real goal is PR for Kogan.
I work for a site which gets a lot of traffic from mainstream Australia (ie we're not in the tech space).
We still get a significant amount of traffic from IE7.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#105I doubt their userbase using IE7 is large enough for this to be a big deal. This tax's real goal is PR for Kogan.
I did not even open the post, and did not know what Kogan is: I just looked at the title of the post on HN and said to myself: What a great PR idea!
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#106Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#107Why 6.8% specifically?
It is written. "0.1% for each month since the browser was released"
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's illegal in most states/violates all credit card agreements for the vendor. (but still a valid comparison)
Not illegal in Australia, where kogan is from. Unfortunately there's no limit on the amount a merchant can charge for payment/card fees. For example, I believe the most popular taxi charge company here (CabCharge) charges a 10% fee when paying by credit card.
In the US. My bad.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's illegal in most states/violates all credit card agreements for the vendor. (but still a valid comparison)
How about a discount to cash then? Its the opposite, buy has the same result.
Most common (in the US) is just a minimum credit card purchase.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's equally ridiculous. Not upgrading your browser is a choice, being disabled is not.
Not really. Most people using IE7 probably didn't choose it, their IT department chose for them.
So then the IT department chose for them not to be able to use a certain online shop. If the online shopping is work-related, then it's the IT department's job to facilitate this and upgrade the systems. If the online shopping is not work-related, you have the option to do it in your own time, with your own browser on your own PC--the same situation as people that do not spend their working hours surfing the web (because they might not have office jobs).