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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (32043)	12/31/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164684

a rocket scientist at TMF, in a lame attempt to justify price competitiveness at amzn posted ... if only the fool understood that the prices quoted at shopping.com as well as buy.com mysimon.com pricescan.com and yahoo.com are the all in prices -- ie they provide all the prices cheapest to most expensive INCLUSIVE of shipping -- if this is typical of bullish analytical rigor (and i think it is) you're all in for a long '99 as you live in denial. <<<Subject: Amazon price comparison (very long) Date: 12/31/98 9:46 PM Author: ahatcher Number: of 11590 I decided to make up a new bag of books and CD's to price compare. I picked books and music my family and I would like to own. Once I thought of something I didn't eliminate it if I found it wasn't cheapest at Amazon. Yahoo == Yahoo merchant Yahoo-web == Use Yahoo to search the web Book (trade paperback), Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian Acses (Powells) $7.95 shopping.com $8.41 Yahoo (Alldirect) $8.94 Alldirect $9.71 Amazon.com $10.36 B&N $10.36 Yahoo-web $10.36 (a number of places) Book (hardcover), The Joy of Work, Scott Adams shopping.com $11.00 Alldirect $14.30 Amazon.com $15.40 B&N $15.40 Yahoo-web $15.40 (a number of places) Acses (not found, only cloth and paperback found) Yahoo (no Yahoo merchants selling at this time) Book (mass market paper), Sweet Silver Blues, Glen Cook Yahoo (Buybooks) $3.30 Amazon.com $4.10 Alldirect $4.13 Acses (A1books) $4.25 Yahoo-web $4.40 (only found Amazon/price wrong) B&N (not found) shopping.com (not found) Book (MMP), Cast of Corbies, Mercedes Lackey shopping.com $3.89 Alldirect $4.49 Acses (A1books) $4.50 Amazon.com $4.79 Yahoo-web (ALL) $4.79 B&N $4.79 Yahoo (not found) CD, Lie to me, Jonny Lang Music Blvd $10.88 CDNOW $11.88 shopping.com $12.49 Yahoo-web (Spree)$12.73 Yahoo (Alldirect)$12.74 Amazon.com $12.99 CD, Greatest Hits, Stevie Ray Vaughan Yahoo (Alldirect)$13.44 Yahoo-web (Spree)$13.48 shopping.com $13.49 Music Blvd $14.41 Amazon.com $14.99 CDNOW $15.27 CD (box set), The Great Aretha Franklin Music Blvd $20.92 Yahoo-web (Spree)$21.97 Amazon.com $22.47 Yahoo (no merchants selling this item) shopping.com (couldn't find) CDNOW (couldn't find box set) Total buying everything at Amazon:$85.10 Shipping charges needed for Amazon: 1 Total buying at cheapest location:$71.38 Shipping charges needed for cheapest: 6 Those 5 extra shipping charges had better be less than $13.72 or you're not even breaking even. So what does this mean to me the consumer? It means I'm going to stick with Amazon. I know that I'm getting reasonably good prices and I know that I can get everything I want from a single location. The Yahoo price comparison thing doesn't do a very good job of finding the best price. Neither does Asces. Why should I bother using a price comparer, if it doesn't always find the lowest price? How does it save me time if I can't trust the price comparer? Barnes and Noble had the exactly the same price as Amazon on the 3 books it had, but it didn't have one of the books.>>>