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To: Earlie who wrote (37599)	11/26/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) of 132070

Very good post Earlie. I think there is one use of the internet that is made by a large number of folks that I know. People purchasing big ticket items (not commodities) will often hunt for price information on the web. Cars for example. Lot's of folks that I've known looking for a new car -- will first come on the web and get an idea of price before heading to the local dealership. Of course, PC's used to be a big ticket item <g> The web is kind of convenient for certain financial products as well, insurance, mortgages -- even in these instances people use the net as a means for price shopping but often go with someone local they know. -- Check out CB's post concerning her reasoning on staying with her broker even once she got to doing trading on the net. The same is true of myself, I stuck with someone who I knew through a local office -- if a mistake is made I have someone I can call that I know. Re: Email being cheap. Some of my friends are very. So while I would very much prefer a phone call -- we communicate via e-mail. Re: Internet shopping vs. catalogue shopping. Until it gets easier to use and for inventory to be completly represented on the web -- the catalogues have a decided advantage, it seems to me. If the web malls ever do get competitive there -- it boggles my mind how they can be any better -- they simply have to carry the overhead of the information technology. For the existing catalogue merchants -- I don't know of any that have went on the web and phased out the printed catalogues, but I would bet that that would hurt sales quite a bit. Some misguided company is bound to try this -- will be interesting. Supposing that one is shopping on the net there is another factor to consider -- the ease of someone else or software doing the price comparison for you. If price comparison does get really easy via the web perhaps there will be a benefit there.

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