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To: llamaphlegm who wrote (24027)	11/1/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 164684

>>Nice reply. You're incorrect. It's almost instantaneous price comparison now already exists ...kindly click on over to YHOO's (and a sundry other) shopping areas and the leap to bid pricing is hardly an issue. More importantly, once I'm on file with my msn,yahoo, etc. shopping agent, the credit card charges will all be filtered through there ... no need to trust anyone else. LP- Credit card charges aren't what I'd be worried about (and I don't think anyone else should be either in general). I'd be worried about submitting a list of books (e.g.) to order and the subsequent scenario goes something like this (please fill in and correct me where applicable): Presumably the order wouldn't be broken up since that would effectively multiply shipping charges. So the entire order goes to the lowest bidder. The bidder ships the items (and pays the shopping bot? or who does pay the bot?) -- no problem and the customer and vendor are happy (and the bot as well since they've successfully done their job and presumably made enough to pay for their service as well as turn a profit). If OTOH that lowest bidder happens to lack highly reliable service (as part of the cost-cutting to be the lowest bidder perhaps) and screws up the order (variety of ways that could happen), then the customer goes back to their previously trusted vendor and never again (or perhaps again, after the bots have effectively filtered all problem vendors, leaving only the premier vendors) touches a shopping bot approach. See what I'm saying? Is this all a non-issue? I obviously need to try the Yahoo service for myself... Randy