Flash/Flex commercial trucks - a faulty concept?

This is my first post here. I am a long-time developer and use part-time Flex for about 18 months. I'm putting in place the developers group Flash Perth that kept me in this site.

Anyway, I'm in an office shared with 5 other Web developers/designers and are pitching in for a customer who want an e-commerce site, and it provides the liberal use of Flash. We settled on Magento as backend and I can imagine all kinds of creative animation Flash drawing on Magento web services.

However the other guys are unanimously WARNING far from anything too funky and Flash based for the interface trader, saying:
(1) they do not work, citing times of loading, distributed feature

I get this to some extent. I had at least a couple of sites in Flash simply does not lately, perhaps due to running Flash Player 10 in the opera on a Mac. The reasons don't matter - the point being that Flash adds technical obstacles to customers buying things. I still have the ideal that something well built in Flex can be at least as reliable as an AJAX
solution and certainly more powerful in brand sense (important for our work by hand), but they are not convinced.

(2) they don't sell the product, simply confuse customers

They are arguing that the grid of products is proven, and spreading of which will result in the loss of sales.
I played with http://www.crumpler.com.au and while he couldn't load the first time, and when it worked it is loading for my ability to pay attention too, I think she did an impression of the mark on me and after the first minute or if I liked the experience. A guy admits that http://www.burton.com works well, but it would have been very expensive, like $100 K, says.

Then there are the good examples of e-commerce Flex/Flash-heavy sites that go beyond what AJAX can do these days? And are there good up-to-date components or services for the construction of their?

Thank you for your reactions/comments.

Gary

Thanks to all for the helpful comments and links. These guys are not fools, and I had a few crashes with Flash and Air lately (later in Adobe Media Player caused OSX for stopping power!).

I am almost registered the customer after proposing Magento as a backend with 100% Flex on the home page of the interface. I am combining display products display the details of the product and the shopping cart in one page, and then when they decide to buy, they will use normal Magento for the withdrawal and payment. The customer also writes Magento for all back-end functions.

Magento is rising star of caddies, but is particularly interesting to Flex developers because it is based on the Zend framework Adobe collaborates with lately for the successful integration of Flex, who added AMF support as standard. See also this: etween-flash-flex-and-magento-2 http://www.matsiya-technology.com/matsiya-introduces-the-first-amf-api-for-communication-b

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