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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (125080)	5/15/2001 9:54:32 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 164684

I read an article about this almost two yrs ago. The focus of the article was the co whose software a lot of the .coms were using- AMZN was one of them. One of the things they could do was track clickstream data of customers, to figure out how price-sensitive they were, then charge them accordingly. Ironically when I posted this at the time, KIS, who was the most anti-amzn guy around, didn't believe me! But I don't really uderstand the big deal- airlines and hotels and lots of other sectors do this all the time. Victor

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (125080)	5/16/2001 12:43:45 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

glenn, did you know this? >>Last year Amazon.com annoyed surfers when it was discovered to be using a dynamic pricing system it had failed to publicize - the e-tailer used the system to make regular customers pay more than first-time users of the site. ® << SB, Thank you for the info but I was very aware of that. My marketing has been a bit different. We give special discounts to our good customers that are not offered to new customers. Maybe I have it backwards??