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Ebuyer - different prices to different customers?
"Meg A Hurtz" wrote in message ... Does Ebuyer charge different prices to different customers for the same items? It keeps coming up with offers for things I have been viewing that I wonder if it lowers the price because I didn't buy it after looking. They change their prices everyso often. Possibly daily, to reflect changes in the prices for them or possibly the number of sales of each item. I doubt they do dynamic pricing like you describe though. |
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tHatDudeUK wrote: "Meg A Hurtz" wrote in message ... Does Ebuyer charge different prices to different customers for the same items? It keeps coming up with offers for things I have been viewing that I wonder if it lowers the price because I didn't buy it after looking. They change their prices everyso often. Possibly daily, to reflect changes in the prices for them or possibly the number of sales of each item. I doubt they do dynamic pricing like you describe though. Hehe, dynamic pricing was tried by Amazon. Here is from a site I found at Business 2.0 November 2000 "Unfortunately, those Old Economy business practices may be adopted by New Economy organizations. Amazon.com, for one, has recently sold the same movie DVDs for different prices to different customers. One buyer could pay up to $15 more than another for the same DVD, even if they placed their orders at the same time. Here's the ironic part: The people paying the highest prices were long-time Amazon customers. One user discovered Amazon's game when he stripped his browser of the cookies, or electronic tags, that identified him to Amazon as a regular visitor. On his next visit, the price of the DVD fell" Read more at http://www.business2.com/b2/web/arti...528427,00.html |
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A certain Johannes H Andersen, of uk.comp.vendors "fame", writes : "Unfortunately, those Old Economy business practices may be adopted by New Economy organizations. Amazon.com, for one, has recently sold the same movie DVDs for different prices to different customers. One buyer could pay up to $15 more than another for the same DVD, even if they placed their orders at the same time. Here's the ironic part: The people paying the highest prices were long-time Amazon customers. One user discovered Amazon's game when he stripped his browser of the cookies, or electronic tags, that identified him to Amazon as a regular visitor. On his next visit, the price of the DVD fell" Read more at http://www.business2.com/b2/web/arti...528427,00.html Amazon are still doing something like this. I pre-ordered a DVD (due to be released at the end of this month) among a bunch of other things a couple of weeks ago, and found recently that they dropped the price on it. Spookily, when I deleted the item from the open order and re-added it, it was maintained at the old (high) price - so their system was obviously designed to spot people doing what I'd tried to do. I had to actually cancel the order completely and reorder from scratch to get the reduction. -- "Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com |
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:20:20 +0100, Chesney Christ
wrote: X-No-Archive:yes A certain Johannes H Andersen, of uk.comp.vendors "fame", writes : "Unfortunately, those Old Economy business practices may be adopted by New Economy organizations. Amazon.com, for one, has recently sold the same movie DVDs for different prices to different customers. One buyer could pay up to $15 more than another for the same DVD, even if they placed their orders at the same time. Here's the ironic part: The people paying the highest prices were long-time Amazon customers. One user discovered Amazon's game when he stripped his browser of the cookies, or electronic tags, that identified him to Amazon as a regular visitor. On his next visit, the price of the DVD fell" Read more at http://www.business2.com/b2/web/arti...528427,00.html Amazon are still doing something like this. I pre-ordered a DVD (due to be released at the end of this month) among a bunch of other things a couple of weeks ago, and found recently that they dropped the price on it. Spookily, when I deleted the item from the open order and re-added it, it was maintained at the old (high) price - so their system was obviously designed to spot people doing what I'd tried to do. I had to actually cancel the order completely and reorder from scratch to get the reduction. Oen they did to me was to reduce the price (on a pre-ordered) after I had the item delivered (something like the day after the release it dropped in price). The nice thing was I got an email saying they were going to credit me with the difference so I only paid the new price which was rather nice of them. They didn't need to do that but its one of those good customer service things that keeps people comming back. |
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Oen they did to me was to reduce the price (on a pre-ordered) after I had the item delivered (something like the day after the release it dropped in price). The nice thing was I got an email saying they were going to credit me with the difference so I only paid the new price which was rather nice of them. They didn't need to do that but its one of those good customer service things that keeps people comming back. This happened to me recently, I thought it was a wind up untill the credit appeared on my card. Can`t see HMV/Virgin and so on doing the same next time I go into their shop. Des. |
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A certain Bagpuss, of uk.comp.vendors "fame", writes : Oen they did to me was to reduce the price (on a pre-ordered) after I had the item delivered (something like the day after the release it dropped in price). The nice thing was I got an email saying they were going to credit me with the difference so I only paid the new price which was rather nice of them. They didn't need to do that but its one of those good customer service things that keeps people comming back. They seem to be positioning themselves as a serious competitive force. I've found computer kit on there, if they stock it, to be typically cheaper than DABS and have free postage (DABS premium to Northern Ireland is steep). I bought a Linksys WRT54G on Sunday from them, £7 cheaper than DABS, got an email first thing Monday morning to say it had been dispatched. -- "Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:02:16 +0100, Chesney Christ
wrote: X-No-Archive:yes A certain Bagpuss, of uk.comp.vendors "fame", writes : Oen they did to me was to reduce the price (on a pre-ordered) after I had the item delivered (something like the day after the release it dropped in price). The nice thing was I got an email saying they were going to credit me with the difference so I only paid the new price which was rather nice of them. They didn't need to do that but its one of those good customer service things that keeps people comming back. They seem to be positioning themselves as a serious competitive force. I've found computer kit on there, if they stock it, to be typically cheaper than DABS and have free postage (DABS premium to Northern Ireland is steep). Cheaper than DABS isn't too hard. PC World do that on quite a few items :-) I bought a Linksys WRT54G on Sunday from them, £7 cheaper than DABS, got an email first thing Monday morning to say it had been dispatched. I usually go to www.stak.com although I pick up and return by hand. Never had any bad service off them and although I know of people who have had horror stories in the past. |
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