list your fav shopping sites!

September 11, 2006 7:45 AM

Please list your favorite online shopping sites, from a design, user experience, and functionality perspective.

I work for a small consumer electronics manufacturer, looking to overhaul our e-commerce website.

I am looking for both web (department) stores and (especially) manufacturer stores that give you a good shopping experience.

We're also looking to keep people coming back to our site with community-based, interactive features, such as product reviews, forums, RSS feeds, etc, so please list any sites with those features.

Cool web 2.0 features, of course, get a bonus!

posted by bradn to computers & internet (11 comments total)

Might be a little out of date now I guess, but this was asked previously.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 7:52 AM on September 11, 2006

I like Zappos for the most part. It's a really simple to use site, with not a lot of flashy stuff that's useless.
posted by misanthropicsarah at 9:42 AM on September 11, 2006

second Zappos and the previous thread. Nice design ideas. Community interaction would have to go to Amazon.
posted by ptm at 10:06 AM on September 11, 2006

Thirding Zappos. And besides a useful and well categorized website, they have a KILLER return policy - you have 360 days, they pay for your return shipping and all it takes is printing out a label from their website.
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:15 AM on September 11, 2006

My favourite Web electronics retailer in terms of how up to date it is, the features, and the whole experience is eBuyer. I think they have a US wing, although are based in the UK primarily.
posted by wackybrit at 10:15 AM on September 11, 2006

Apple's online store is really nice, IMHO.

I was reminded of this because of a blog I just read about frustrations of trying to order something at Dell's web site.
posted by browse at 10:19 AM on September 11, 2006

is etsy sweet? or what?


www.etsy.com

you work for them wins for goods
posted by specialk420 at 10:20 AM on September 11, 2006

One of the more interesting outlier shopping carts is still Panic's
posted by SpecialK at 10:24 AM on September 11, 2006

Another vote for Zappos. There are so many ways to browse and search, and they have multiple-view photos of their products. Also love their customer reviews.
posted by candyland at 10:45 AM on September 11, 2006

Newegg and Amazon
posted by Manjusri at 1:09 PM on September 11, 2006

Freshdirect

I get the feelting that they spared no expense on their site. Even their food descriptions are well written.
posted by Afroblanco at 2:55 PM on September 11, 2006