Don’t not uncheck this box if you don’t want to not receive nothing

June 3, 2008 – 12:11 am

Here’s a major online shopping wtf moment…

So I made an online purchase tonight at a health supplement store.  Their online shopping is operated by Yahoo.  I’ve ordered from them before and never had any strange issues.  Plus, the shopping cart is run by Yahoo!  They know what they’re doing, right?

Hrrmmm, tricky wording, but I’m smart enough to figure out the double negative trickery at play here.  So I uncheck this box. Submit.

Ummmmmmmm…what was that now???  Just how does one “check Uncheck” a box?  Is there a separate box I have to check that will uncheck the previous box?  Maybe some tag-team checking.  Is this some sort of brain teaser worked into my order form?

Turns out the only way I can submit my order is to keep the box checked.  That means I’ll be receiving some exciting offers in my email very soon!  Great.  I can’t wait.  If the intention was to trick people into receiving spam, congratulations, you succeeded.

I’m not sure who’s at fault here, but I think I’ll just blame Yahoo.

Update:

Sent them an email describing the idiocy.  Apparently they fixed it now.

Thank you for informing us.  This problem has now been fixed.  We have
removed your email address from our bi-weekly email subscriber list.

Regards,
Customer Service