EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout

"<i>The newly-patented buying system guides users through an intuitive, step-by-step process of clicking 'Buy It Now', entering your password, logging in because they signed your sorry ass out again, getting upsold shit you don’t want, continuing to your original destination</i>"<p>If that <i>were</i> a real patent, GoDaddy would owe Ebay millions.

What I find most depressing is that you hear such moronic examples of patents that on reading this title a tiny part of me was thinking "well.. maybe..".<p>Not sure if that says more about the patents system or my awakeness, I hope the former.

Yeah, but what if someone comes up with a 9-click checkout?<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/quotes?qt=qt0410938" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/quotes?qt=qt0410938</a>

Oh he's so good. I hope he's back.

Ebay is frustrating. They haven't changed the functionality or even the fit and finish of their site substantially for about a decade. They're still the de facto leader in online auctions but I feel as if they're slowly being bled by a lot of more specialized sites (amazon, craigslist, etsy, etc.)

Fantastic! I used to do lot via the eBay platform as a "Power Seller", and I always thought they were a most bizarre company: one part incredibly innovative, one part money-grabbing corporate and one (big) part terrible UI/UX designers. Glad to hear nothing has changed....

I bid on something on Ebay for the first time in years this week and although I didn't win and make it to the infuriating checkout process, I was still amazed at how frequently I had resupply my user name and password. When you go back to a site like Ebay you realize how far some other parts of the web have come in promoting user-friendliness and how much some sites are being left behind.

Man, this space is ripe for disruption.

I honestly couldn't tell if this was satire or real for a while. It looks like satire, smells like it, tastes like it but it really isn't. EDIT: It really is satire. Some damn good satire, had me fooled.

Has anyone tried to patent the 1-touch checkout for touchscreen devices?

For a minute there I though this was going to be a real attempt at challenging amazon's 1-click buying patent by patenting the non-1-click approach. This was funnier though.

End patents.

I'd much rather use Amazon's 1 click instead.<p>One click and the item is at my house the next day.

When I saw this in my RSS feed, I thought it was spam, the text being so strange.

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Didn't amazon did something similar? All of this patents are so closely linked if someone sues, it will start a war..<p>Look at the Apple vs HTC case..