Posted in retail, shopping on Aug 24th, 2007
To continue with my theme of shopping at Amazon here is a shot of some feedback ratings in their Used and New Merchants area.
Read the second rating. The user, dixit_sanjeev, gives glowing feedback and provides actual information (as opposed to bmckeer’s “Great product!” - which doesn’t really tell us much). But the merchant [...]
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Posted in retail, shopping on Aug 23rd, 2007
I was shopping over on Amazon the other day for a Cisco router. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Amazon and you can get all kinds of great things there for good prices. Amazon Prime rocks the house too. But sometimes they lack technical details on some of their higher tech [...]
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Posted in retail, shopping, web on Aug 12th, 2007
I’m sure I’m not the only person who uses Google search even though there’s a 99% chance that you could guess the right URL. For example, this morning I was trying to find the PetSmart site. Sure, it’s almost certainly www.petsmart.com but it’s almost as easy to just punch petsmart into the Google [...]
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Posted in retail, web on Aug 8th, 2007
I was reading a post from Seth Godin’s blog last night and in a round about way it was describing something I’ve been thinking about lately. My thoughts also were in line with Kevin Kelleher’s post on GigaOM about Amazon Prime.
I shop online for three main reasons:
Better deals (can I get it for cheaper [...]
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