Just because they did $7.1 billion in transactions last year, it doesn't mean they're not rookies.
Most of the big IT companies in this side of the world follow the ideology of "we don't care about doing things correctly, we only care about getting the stuff done" and succeed because of the traction they generate due to the lack of serious competition.
Recently Amazon joined the e-commerce arena in Mexico, but my expectations are that Mercado Libre will follow the footsteps of Ask.com, Source Forge, etc. instead of improving, they have been arbitrarily doing UX anti patterns in the last years in order to protect their income at the expense of the users.
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Just because they did $7.1 billion in transactions last year, it doesn't mean they're not rookies.
Most of the big IT companies in this side of the world follow the ideology of "we don't care about doing things correctly, we only care about getting the stuff done" and succeed because of the traction they generate due to the lack of serious competition.
Recently Amazon joined the e-commerce arena in Mexico, but my expectations are that Mercado Libre will follow the footsteps of Ask.com, Source Forge, etc. instead of improving, they have been arbitrarily doing UX anti patterns in the last years in order to protect their income at the expense of the users.