Comments on: The Problems With Showing Competitor Prices http://www.getelastic.com/show-competitor-prices/ #1 Subscribed Ecommerce Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: New eCommerce trend: showing competitors’ prices | eCommerceTipshttp://www.getelastic.com/show-competitor-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-20558 New eCommerce trend: showing competitors’ prices | eCommerceTips Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:12:36 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=4719#comment-20558 [...] for any new idea, there are pros and cons. Linda Bustos from GetElastic consider that is not such a good idea: “The study suggests adding price comparison because customers [...] [...] for any new idea, there are pros and cons. Linda Bustos from GetElastic consider that is not such a good idea: “The study suggests adding price comparison because customers [...]

]]> By: Frankhttp://www.getelastic.com/show-competitor-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-20436 Frank Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:18:09 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=4719#comment-20436 Comparing prices online is really as simple as the click of a mouse. No value proposition will prevent anyone from leaving to compare price--or prevent them from wanting that info. If you have a small site online (like I do) then you know that a lot of the people who find you do so by chance...and then go directly to Amazon! My business is well priced with very good value proposition but people are still going to go check out the industry "powerhouse" regardless. I think that comparative pricing on my site is a big help to me and my shoppers. They know that the info is just a snap shot of whats out there! No one looks at the competition I display and think that those results are the beginning and end of the picture. How could it be? After all there are hundreds upon hundreds of other sites online to choose from--and assuming that my shoppers are such simpletons as not to understand that is an insult to my consumers intelligence. I need all the tools I can to make a living and providing info that keeps people on my site for a minute or two longer makes a big difference. Comparing prices online is really as simple as the click of a mouse. No value proposition will prevent anyone from leaving to compare price–or prevent them from wanting that info.

If you have a small site online (like I do) then you know that a lot of the people who find you do so by chance…and then go directly to Amazon! My business is well priced with very good value proposition but people are still going to go check out the industry “powerhouse” regardless.

I think that comparative pricing on my site is a big help to me and my shoppers. They know that the info is just a snap shot of whats out there! No one looks at the competition I display and think that those results are the beginning and end of the picture. How could it be? After all there are hundreds upon hundreds of other sites online to choose from–and assuming that my shoppers are such simpletons as not to understand that is an insult to my consumers intelligence.

I need all the tools I can to make a living and providing info that keeps people on my site for a minute or two longer makes a big difference.

]]> By: yolandahttp://www.getelastic.com/show-competitor-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-20434 yolanda Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:04:40 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=4719#comment-20434 As I am also a consumer, I prefer that a site not only has its own price, but also shows the competitors's price, or at least leads a easy way for me to knoe the competitors's price. And if the price of the good is on sale, I prefer to see the original price which can tell me how much discount I really get. As I am also a consumer, I prefer that a site not only has its own price, but also shows the competitors’s price, or at least leads a easy way for me to knoe the competitors’s price.
And if the price of the good is on sale, I prefer to see the original price which can tell me how much discount I really get.

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