{"id":15366,"date":"2011-08-02T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15366"},"modified":"2011-08-02T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:25:40","slug":"ebays-newest-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/02\/ebays-newest-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay’s newest patent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steve Yegge<\/a> lets us all know about the newest eBay patent:<\/p>\n

San Jose, CA (Reuters) \u2014 Online auctions cartel eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and its collections and incarceration arm PayPal announced that on July 21, 2011, the two companies had jointly been awarded United States Patent No. 105960411 for their innovative 10-click \u201cBuy it Now\u201d purchasing pipeline.<\/p>\n

The newly-patented buying system guides users through an intuitive, step-by-step process of clicking \u201cBuy It Now\u201d, entering your password, logging in because they signed your sorry ass out again, getting upsold shit you don\u2019t want, continuing to your original destination, accepting the default quantity of 1 (otherwise known as \u201cIt\u201d), committing to buy, clicking “Pay Now”, entering a different password than your first one, clicking “Log In” again god dammit, declining to borrow money from eBay\u2019s usury department, reviewing the goddamn purchase details since by now you\u2019ve completely forgotten what the hell you were buying, and finally confirming the god damned payment already.<\/p>\n

The 10-click checkout system, known colloquially as 10CLICKFU — which many loyal users believe stands for \u201c10 Clicks For You\u201d — was recently awarded top honors by the National Alliance of Reconstructive Hand Surgeons. 10CLICKFU incorporates a variable number of clicks ranging from eight to upwards of fifteen, but eBay\u2019s patent stipulates that any purchasing system that lies to you at least nine times about the \u201cNow\u201d part of \u201cBuy It Now\u201d is covered by their invention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full press release <\/a>for more details.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Steve Yegge lets us all know about the newest eBay patent: San Jose, CA (Reuters) \u2014 Online auctions cartel eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and its collections and incarceration arm PayPal announced that on July 21, 2011, the two companies had jointly been awarded United States Patent No. 105960411 for their innovative 10-click \u201cBuy it Now\u201d purchasing … Continue reading eBay’s newest patent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2262,2418,2878,1158],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-ebay","tag-humor","tag-patents","tag-user-interfaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12055,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/11\/ebay-solution\/","url_meta":{"origin":15366,"position":0},"title":"Ebay solution","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What the duck comics has a well-timed, Ebay-involving solution to the problem that some of us have.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ebay solution","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ebay_solution.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10375,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/18\/whats-your-ebay-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":15366,"position":1},"title":"What’s your Ebay experience?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I've spent a lot of time during the last couple of days digging through Ebay. 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