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Dealpilot(is)
Family : software agent (shopping assistant)
Sub-family : comparison shopper
URL : http://www.dealpilot.com
Deal Pilot (formerly Acses), http://www.dealpilot.com
may represent this change. The market economy suggests
that competition is rife on Internet. And yet, comparing
the choice offered by different companies is virtually
impossible. First of all, the consumer finds it difficult
to find all the different booksellers on Internet because
he knows neither their names nor Website addresses. Besides,
he can't spot the exact differences in price or the services
offered from one shop to another. You yourself are probably
an expert in electronic commerce, but would you know the
difference between the pricing policy of amazon, Barnes
& Noble and Borders ? Deal Pilot answers these questions
by comparing the price of around thirty online bookstores,
to allow you find the most competitive. Thus at one single
site you can compare prices, delivery times and transport
costs of the different sellers. The saving of time and
money is obvious.
This explains the development of these new selling systems
on Internet, of which there are already hundreds.
Amazon has only reproduced and improved a commercial
concept belonging to the industrial economy in the digital
economy. On the other hand, comparison shopping (the system
of comparing various products) is a completely innovative
concept, in the sense that it doesn't correspond to an
existing commercial concept in the real world, but which
has already proved its efficiency amongst all the more
or less convincing innovations appearing on Internet.
One of the oldest member of the Dealpilot family is Bargain
Finder, developed by Arthur Anderson in 1995, which compares
the prices of compact discs. Unfortunately, the Bargain
Finder system has its limitations, in view of the more
expensive stores' refusal to adhere to the principle of
price comparison.
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