Kogan 'taxes' IE7 users

JMH · Jun 13, 2012

[h=3]UK users exempt from prankster merchant's latest stunt[/h] Australia's electronics hawker Ruslan Kogan has decided he's had enough of tuning his eponymous website for Internet Explorer 7. Shoppers who use the venerable browser to make purchases from his store will therefore be charged an additional 6.8% for goods. IE 7 users will have the tax thrust in their faces, with the popup below.

Kogan's business model seems to rely on regular injections of attention-gathering controversy, and a quick look at StatCounter suggests this “tax” may again have more to do with capturing the public imagination rather than a real business problem.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/kogan_ie7_tax/

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Kogan 'taxes' IE7 users

JMH

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