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Re:Mis-clicking?btw why don't they lower the price if you've seen the ad 1 gazillion times and keep ignoring it?
Because if you're ignoring the ad anyway, you're probably not going to notice the "20...25...30...35...40...60% Off!" either. Besides, it's more opportunistic to try and pitch some OTHER overpriced thing at you instead of offering a lower price on the old thing that you weren't interested in to begin with. And lastly, fatwallet.com (and other) discount sites would have a field day...
Better to just block the ads and go to price comparison sites to get the deals.
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Re:Let's hope UDDI catches on...
If you have done anything with e-commerce tools today you should know what a bloody mess it the whole area is. No one can afford to deal with partners electronically, because it takes so much IT effort to get them up and running.
This is because the majority of e-commerce tools are inflexible and designed to the lowest-common-denominator. My company (a comparison shopping site) brings up new retailers in about 15 minutes, excluding legal overhead. It just doesn't have to be so.From what I can tell, UDDI is the latest in buzzword-compliant technology. Just like XML, its promoters overpromise its potential. I've been banging out code for 20 years now, and I think I can safely call UDDI (and XML f'r chrissakes) another overhyped silver bullet that will find a niche somewhere.
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Re:Follow the adult industry, as usual
So the problem is that e-commerce will not and never will be the internet's true "killer app". Shipping costs and times are prohibitive compared to the convenience and experience of walking into a store and walking out with product, regardless of the extra availability of items online.
I have to respectfully disagree. As someone who works for an indirect e-commerce site (pricegrabber.com), it's not that e-commerce isn't working; far from it. For us, traffic -- and yes, revenues -- have been growing more or less exponentially since we started. Likewise for our customers, the online merchants. What we have seen, however, is the decline and fall of massively overstaffed businesses. Many people got started in e-commerce with the notion that running such a business would require armies to operate. Yet some of our most successful merchants have turned out to be Yahoo webfronts with a couple guys behind it. So it cheers me to see our competitors buy TV ads. It means they still haven't figured out the size of this market. On the other hand, CNET is laying people off, so perhaps their payroll hit them with a big cluestick! -
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