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Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Re: Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Post by blamazon »

A huge advantage of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is the 3D models - for nearly every fastener, and for certain other products, you can instantly grab a 3D model and bring it right into your CAD design. As far as I know no one else offers this, definitely not at the scale McMaster's dataset offers.

An annoyance of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is how they don't show you the shipping cost until after transaction is complete. That's fine for my day job when I'm not paying, but when I order stuff for home projects I generally would like to know how much it costs to ship say, an 8 foot piece of steel tubing, before I click submit order. EDIT: they updated this apparently! See user Certified's comment below.

Re: Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Post by simonlc »

StayTrue wrote: post #2

The best e-commerce site would not insert a redirect when arriving via Google search results (which breaks the back button).

It also doesn't ship world wide, even to Canada I made an order, with no way to see what shipping was and got an email saying they only ship to commercial or schools. That's a terrible e-commerce experience. Sites like NCIX were way better than this.

Re: Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Post by trakout »

simonlc wrote: post #5
StayTrue wrote: post #2

The best e-commerce site would not insert a redirect when arriving via Google search results (which breaks the back button).

It also doesn't ship world wide, even to Canada I made an order, with no way to see what shipping was and got an email saying they only ship to commercial or schools. That's a terrible e-commerce experience. Sites like NCIX were way better than this.

NCIX doesn't seem to be shipping to anyone these days

Re: Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Post by zeusk »

hedora wrote: post #6

It is strange that the article refers to McMaster as a B2B site. It works just as well for consumers.

I wouldn't say so, I had to purchase the min qty. of 200 for a screw set I could only find on there that was available in reasonable time.

I made use of 4 and have 196 left over

Re: Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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Post by Oxidation »

blamazon wrote: post #4

A huge advantage of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is the 3D models - for nearly every fastener, and for certain other products, you can instantly grab a 3D model and bring it right into your CAD design. As far as I know no one else offers this, definitely not at the scale McMaster's dataset offers. An annoyance of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is how they don't show you the shipping cost until after transaction…

And the file you download is the file you need. You don't have to mess about with zip files containing one file.
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