Buying Leads should be "useful" and "usable"

[caption id="attachment_255" align="alignnone" width="194" caption="Alibaba Buying leads"][/caption] With good intent, Alibaba's "latest buying leads" are designed to provide the most updated information to suppliers to fulfil buyers' sourcing needs. Using the buying leads, however, pose a challenge to many users. Briefly looking at the copy such as, pc case, stationery, looking for plast.., they are so concise that we hardly know what the buyers really need. Users have to login to see the details. That's very fair. Yet, another hurdle come -- users are required to be paid members. To get to this notice, users are supposed to go through three to four clicks. Should the users want to get an upgrade, they have to click again. Er... I think it's a bit too much, click after click. It would be very frustrating to those who are new... [read full story]