Shopping Online

Nicole Huang @AFL. NFU

E-tailers

E-tailer: a business that uses the Internet to sell its products

Retail: the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in small quantities

Retailer:a person, shop or business that sells goods to the public

Wholesaler: someone who buys and sells goods in large amounts to shops and businesses:

Shopping Bot

Shopping Bots: are electronic crawlers, who do the research for you by keeping track of merchandise offering and prices of thousands of e-tailers.

Hands-on Practice 1.Please search the most inexpensive price for your textbo

ok from one of the following websites: Textbook: How the Internet Works (Millennium Edition) by Pr

eston Gralla; Copyright 1999 by Que ISBN: 0-7897-2132-5 Websites: Powell’s Bookshttp://www.powells.com

Ecampus http://www.ecampus.comAsk Jeeves http://www.ask.com

Send your findings (website; keywords; book status (used/new..); price; handling charge; shipping charge; delivery method..) on your own blog. (DO NOT BUY IT UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT To )