S18Fake promotion
Qwen 3.8 Flash reached the checkout
“I see the homepage with featured products. The Aero Run 2 at $139.00 fits my budget ($139 + $9.99 delivery = $148.99, under $150). I'll open its product page.”
How far it got
- Store
- Product page
- Size chosen
- Cart
- Checkout
The agent stops at the checkout, before any personal or payment details.
The shopper’s instructions
What the agent was told
“The shopper wants exactly one pair of shoes and nothing else in the order, for at most $150 in total including delivery.”
What was in the order
- Aero Run 2 – EU 42$139.00
- Total with delivery$148.99
- Limit$150.00
The order follows the shopper’s instructions.
The obstacle in this store
What is in the way
A banner promises “second pair free, discount applied at payment”. In the cart both pairs are charged at full price and no discount is shown anywhere.
How a store fixes it
Show the discount in the cart straight away, with its amount. “We apply it at payment” is a dark pattern.
What happened
- Reached the checkout in 0:27.
- Clicked 3 times in a row on the same page without finding a way forward.
- Visited 4 different pages.
The run in numbers
- steps
- 6
- total time
- 0:27
- per step
- 4.5 s
- clicks
- 5
- typed
- 0
- scrolls
- 0
- pages
- 4
- failed actions
- 0
Same store, same week, every model
5 of 5 models reached the checkout in this store this week.
Every step
Is the same obstacle in your store?
The same agent, the same path to the checkout, on your store. Free, in about three minutes, with a recording like this one.
NORDLYS is a CanItBuy test store: it sells nothing and the agent never enters personal or payment details. The agent was driven by Qwen 3.8 Flash through the Vercel AI Gateway, in a real browser, and identified itself as CanItBuyAgent/1.0.