Consumers prefer dealing with chatbots over humans when buying ‘embarrassing’ products online
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When purchasing “embarrassing” products, consumers would rather engage with a chatbot over another human, even when they are shopping alone ...
    • Pro@programming.devOPEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      … What are they?

      At this stage I need to ask a chatbot about what is expensive, but emberassing to buy.

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        a specific style of a fem biology steel chastity belt comes to mind first

        it’s hard to find fem biology chastity belts in the first place, and if you want one that isn’t clunky? either pay an actual fortune for one from a western online store (probably a german one) or gamble your money and try to get one from a chinese retailer with 0 reviews and little media presence but significantly cheaper. another actually valid alternative is using that money to sign up for a blacksmithing course and just forge one yourself because fuck €400 is the cheapest price for like 8 pieces of metal and some wires??? (a shady chinese retailer will [probably] get you one for €100, or they might take the money and disappear forever)

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    So they want to go through one more party, that will collect and sell information about their purchase?

  • FRYD@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I’m a very anxious person and I kinda liked the Taco Bell AI drive thru thing specifically because it was way less pressure even if it was annoying. There’s plenty of other stuff I simply won’t buy because I don’t want it enough to overcome my anxiety.

    If the chatbots are reliable, I’d much prefer them in most shopping scenarios. So this makes sense to me.

  • ExLisperAEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    But how can you know it’s chatbot and not just a human pretending to be a bot?