From a resellers point of view I think exit consoles are fine. They've already decided not to buy what you're selling so why not offer them something else that you'll get paid for? (Especially if I get paid for it too
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What does annoy me from my point of view (resellers view, not a surfers) is the onload consoles on the front page of a tour.
A) I think you should give them a chance to have a pleasant buying experience. If they leave that's one thing, but with the onload you'll have people signing up for a membership, and when they close the onload pop they get hit with 2 more and THEY BOUGHT A MEMBERSHIP!
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B) Even when you blur the console in your code, it doesn't ALWAYS pop behind, depending on how fast the tour page loads and how fast the console loads, that friggin think pops up and covers the tour window. So now the surfer I sent to your tour doesn't even see the tour, he sees the console and clicks off somewhere else and I don't get shit for it.
Of course all of this pales in comparison to one experience I had. As a surfer I signed up for a membership at Vivids website (don't remember how long its been, but its been awhile) and they would send me to console hell everytime I left the members area. I mean fuck I was paying like $40 a month for a membership, but they crashed my damn browser every time I left. Can you say Cancel and Refund?