Couldn't agree more; as soon as I get a whiff of a website trying to dig more information out of me than it needs to perform a specific function, my tolerance for everything else on the website drops considerably.
"To calculate shipping, please enter all your personal info, credit card and hours a day no one is at your house."
As for Amazon, you are right; I think they make up for it with good prices and an excellent shopping experience. In a way, I think they can get away with it because they are so good at what they do.
I wish to go AWS Payments would allow payments without an account though so it could be used in lieu of PayPal... but that is an aside.
"To calculate shipping, please enter all your personal info, credit card and hours a day no one is at your house."
As for Amazon, you are right; I think they make up for it with good prices and an excellent shopping experience. In a way, I think they can get away with it because they are so good at what they do.
I wish to go AWS Payments would allow payments without an account though so it could be used in lieu of PayPal... but that is an aside.