UKNM: Comparison engines

[Mike McCready]

I don't know if all comparison shopping places work like that.  I know that

is the case with places like respond.com.  But in the case of respond.com

you have suppliers actually competing for the business of the consumer who

has previously stated what he is interested in buying and what he is willing

to pay.  So in that case it could very well be the best deal possible.  The

only problem is that the various suppliers don't see the competitions'


offers.  Only the interested consumer sees all of the offers.  The only

"reverse auction" site that I know of that actually sets the suppliers

against each other in an open forum is wanted.com.


Anybody have any thoughts on reverse auction sites?


Mike


----- Original Message -----

From: "Dan Winchester" <

danfreelancers [dot] net

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To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 7:59 PM

Subject: Re: UKNM: Kelkoo - is it any good?


> > Anyone else got any experience of these "comparison engine" sites?

>

> My understanding is that they make their money on a cut of the

> transaction - so I could be selling the cheapest CDs, but if I have no

> margin allocated for affliates I'm not going to figure in the

> comparison. Thus, the cheapest product is the cheapest available from

> a snapshot of suppliers with whom deals have been struck, rather than

> the cheapest on the net.

>

> Regards

> Dan Winchester

> UKShopSearch.com

> http://www.ukshopsearch.com



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