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Online retailer imposes the world’s first tax for people using IE7
If you’re still using IE 7 or lower, you should be ashamed of yourself. Shame, shame, shame. If you have IE 7 and you’re shopping with online retailer Kogan, you can expect to have an extra tax tacked on to your purchase until you use an up to date browser. The tax is to make up for the time it takes their web designers to make the site work in your shitty, out of date browser.
Kogan says the company was sick of wasting time ensuring its revamped website worked on Microsoft’s old IE7 browser.
“Internet Explorer 7 has long since passed its use-by date,” says CEO Ruslan Kogan.“It’s a constant source of frustration for our web guys and we’re sick of burning cash on a browser that hit the market nearly six years ago. It goes against everything Kogan stands for.”
“It’s not only costing us a huge amount, it’s affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the internet economy millions of dollars.
“Secondly, Kogan has established its market leading pricing by cutting unnecessary costs out of its business model. It makes little sense for us to be working so hard to deliver the best possible prices for electronics, and then being wasteful with our own IT spend.”
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posted 14 June, 2012
by jimbolucion
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It’s for your own good really
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can this just happen everywhere like also in real life people get taxed at the grocery store for using IE or something
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It’s just that they are trying to punish people that have no control over what browser they are using. Not to mention...
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I like it. people need to know that IE sucks
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Of in ieder geval als je naar de Australische webshop gaat waarvan je hieronder een screenshot ziet. Ze voegen namelijk...
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