After a bit of faffing around I finally got Parallels up and running earlier in the week.
So, with access to IE7 again for the first time in a while I decided to try again to buy the Blackbox M-14 headphones I’ve had my eye on (see my previous post for the back story).
I hit their homepage, already anticipating the enhanced quietness that was now only a few clicks away …
Sigh!
So, I installed Flash 8 and, held my breath as I tried again to get through the check-out pages.
Woo hoo, it worked.
But then, this:
Enough!
The next day I walked into the Bose store (which is dangerously close to the Xero office!) and walked out with a pair of QC3s. It was too easy. Offline shopping just works so well.
I don’t want to completely bag the guys working on this site. I got a comment back from Leon at Oktobor to say that they were onto the problems I pointed out last time and were working to make it better. It wasn’t just words – they have re-labeled the buttons on the check-out form to make them more intuitive. And, I got an email from them later in the day to say they had been having some technical problems and I should try again, which at least shows that they are now tracking abandoned orders. But, by then it was too late.
You can find the BlackBox at Sound Expression, Willis St. Not much further away from Xero ;)
I have disliked every pair of active noise canceling headphones I have tried so far, muffled and articulate as the cookie monster. I either go for inner ear style cans or circumaural and open. Try a pair of well broken in high end sennheisser or grado to hear what I mean. I am looking forward to trying the inner ear blackbox cans.
Rowan you are being far too kind – it seems they are doing everything they can to prevent you from buying online.
I’ve purchased 3 different noise canceling headphones over the years. I got them all overseas. But as Patrick says, they all suck.