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Online Shopping: a Hunt for the Best Deal?
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The Internet is a source of much product information. The
speed and versatility with which the internet, specifically the World Wide
Web, can discover this information has the potential of completely changing
the way that companies do business! One major change that companies will
have to make is to adapt to the price competition that may develop. Search
agents that can search large volumes of information and determine the best
price available will have an important impact on pricing.
Today that technology is available but not on a very
large scale. Your job is to search the web for the best price and deal
you can find for one of the following products:
The
movie or CD of your choice.
The cost of a flight
for one from Cincinnati to San Fransisco departing Nov 29th and returning
Dec 3rd.
Pick any other product
(you MUST be specific in describing it).
You are to find as many options possible until you feel
that you have found a good deal. Keep track of the sites you visited you
will be asked for them on this form. If you search many sites and still
DO NOT find a suitable price, stop and answer the questions that follow.
Please answer the following questions and submit your
responses.
Enter your name here!
What product did you look for (be specific)?
List the all the
sites you visited and the prices you found.
1. How much time did you spend searching?
2. Describe the process of searching for the best price.
How did you decide where to look?
3. Discuss how the search process made you feel?
4. Did you find a "good deal"?
If not, where could you go to find a better deal?
Make sure that you typed YOUR name in the box above!!