I just came very close to spending some money!

Now I don’t want anyone to think that I have a fundamental aversion to that practice.  I’m not a rampant freebie-hunter.  However, I will not shell out my hard-earned cash on OTO upgrades when I have neither had the oppportunity to test out the basic product to see whether it’s any good nor even seen a demonstration of features on the web site.  Too many people are conned into spening money on the upgraded versions of total rubbish – and, yes I’ll admit it, I’ve sometimes been among the conned.

This afternoon, though, I suspect that there was nothing wrong with the product.  It was a series of software scripts, with a free offer as basic and a bunch of paid enhancements for a price.  The author (or vendor, who I think was also the author) did the right thing.  He put up some demos.  Great idea!  However, it would have been nice to be able to see them.  After a 500 error and two returns to the front sales page, presumably via 404 routing, I gave up.

Yes, I could simply have clicked the PayPal button and gone ahead on faith, but why should I trust the scripts of someone who can’t even get his web site links to work?

As I said in the heading to this post, “Quality, quality …”.  Where art thou, Quality?  (with apologies to William Shakespeare).