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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ahhaha who wrote (244)	10/13/2000 1:37:28 PM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

In addition to that there should be a small graphical view of where one is within the tree structure. The user should be able to look at that for reference and should be able to step up or down several levels by choosing from that view.

To: ahhaha who wrote (244)	10/13/2000 2:27:37 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 24758

I'm curious if you personally shop for stuff on the web (maybe you don't). I do it a lot for my business and while I almost never respond to ads from companies I've never heard of, I've frequently clicked through to one that I've dealt with in the past or have heard about, if the ad is showing something I've been looking for anyway. For the most part I agree with you about not wanting ads on the sites I go to, yet I can't ignore the fact that the auction site that I've spent thousands on is a site that I first clicked an ad to get to the first time (I knew about them from a magazine article). Most of the time when I'm looking for something I go to a shopping search engine like pricewatch.com, but then they are not really a search engine as much as they are an advertising aggregator with search capabilities. In other words, vendors pay to place an ad and the items and prices are shown in standard table form depending on the search and listing criteria set up by the buyer. It is an active form of advertising. Rather than being subjected to a bunch of ads for things you may or may not want, you are subjected to ads for only those things you are actively looking for. As far as I'm concerned there is almost no better way to shop for certain items. You'd think that all buying decisions would then be based on price alone, but frequently I'll go with a vendor I've had a good experience with in the past even when their price is a little higher. Sometimes if it is a lot higher I simply call them and ask them to match the other guys price (I've never had anyone say no). As for not enough vans or gas in the world to deliver, everything in the world that is consumed is delivered to somewhere somehow. What the web does is cut out the middle places it is delivered to before it gets to you. The computer retailer I deal with when I'm in a hurry, can take an order from me until 3am and still deliver the next day overnight air. I can't get a parking space at CompUSA that easily. The way they can do this is to have their warehouse run by the overnight delivery company right next to the sort center. The retailer never takes physical delivery of the goods, they simply run the electronic buying and selling. Others sell things that are drop shipped to customers direct from the manufacturer....no warehouse at all. I'm not even going to get into all those things that can be delivered electronically that we now go into a shop and buy now, or to a travel agent for.