Instant online catalog rant! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 04:15:11 pm
content: Trying to find some Littlefuse protection device data sheets and their website points me to using their online part selector which requires a login. Bad bad bad. Screw you little fuse! I just want to see parts and data. I can "select" my own damn parts if you give me what I need to know, and no, I will not provide you with login information or create an account!Best regards.Pissed off product manager.Thanks for having your shitty website ruin my morning.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 04:25:09 pm
content: I have to agree. This is a bad practice, adds unnecessary hassle, and just ticks most people off. It's basically the same as if you were required to produce ID when entering a bricks and mortar store.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 04:54:34 pm
content: I wonder if the companies doing this have determined if the leads/contacts they develop through this technique outweight the customers they lose. I know they piss me off, and I move on to another vendor if at all possible. Sounds like I am not alone, and there have to be a lot more of us.

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 05:07:58 pm
content: Tek does this. (Keysight) ((Agilent) (Hewlett-Packard)) does not. Guess which equipment I have been buying recently?

author: ajb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 06:51:07 pm
content: Meh, I've mostly stopped caring. As long as the registration process isn't too painful I'd rather take 30 seconds to do it than have to write off an entire manufacturer.If it really bothers you, there's alwayswww.bugmenot.com.

author: VulcanBB18
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 10:11:10 pm
content: Annoying isn't it? Seems like an increasing trend recentlyFor exactly such things where I feel I'll be spammed or whatever, like ajb above I've got what I call a "dumpster" account at hushmail.Nothing of use goes there, so they can do whatever they like to that account, spam it to hell and back, try and data-mine it, wont help them one iotacheers,

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 11:11:40 pm
content: That's why I have a throwaway email account for that sort of thing, and a good one I only give out to close friends. Guess which one has the most flagged spam? Yet so many of these places will say "we don't sell or give away your email address" Really/ Then how do all these other places I've never visited have my email, sometimes with tidbits of information that makes me fairly certain which site sold my information?

author: spudboy488
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2016, 11:43:11 am
content: Yep. I also have a spam collecting email account for this very purpose.

author: SimonR
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2016, 05:05:26 pm
content: Quote from: rdl on June 07, 2016, 04:25:09 pmNo its the same as registering and having to get a membership card before entering a bricks and morter store.I have several accounts that I can no longer get into because I was so hacked off when I registered that I used swear words as the password and didn't write them down.