Hidden Traps

We all shop online. The sequence is usually to scan through all the possible websites which offer a product and choose the one with the best price and have a reliable background. Once we do this exercise couple of times, we end up with a preferred vendor with whom we trade often. As a preferred customer, we would hope that the vendor gives us reasonably good deals. But, that is not entirely true.

As I just heard recently, internet based online shopping companies use some dubious strategies to price a customer.One of the common method followed is that, the online retailer looks at your stored cookies to find out how many other similar sites you have visited for a given product. If they know that you have been doing a lot of searching, they try and give you the best deal. If not, they raise prices. Apparently, a customer who was searching for a product in "amazon" found to his surprise that the price dropped by 15% as soon as he cleared off his cookies in the internet browser. If you log-on to a vendor's website, you are the all the more sure to get a not-so good deal. This is one of the many tactics used by vendors as a strategy to do product pricing. I am sure there are many similar tactics used. So, make sure that you do a reasonably good comparison before buying a product online. A "preferred customer" might be the first one to get ripped off afterall...