Heys,
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2000, at 09:22 PM, Jon Barker wrote:
>
> > Hello H.J.C.
> >
> > On 04-Feb-00, H.J.C. Sam wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2000, at 02:19 PM, Raimund Dold wrote:
> >
> > >> Hallo,
> >
> > >> some times ago I reported, that V3.0.52 is calculating wrong prices if
> > >> you want to order online. Nobody answered, but it happened to me again.
> > >> Try ordering the following book at www.buecher.de "Engineering Analysis
> > >> of Flight Vehicles". If you order it from Netscape you pay about 25 DM,
> > >> if you order from V you have to pay about 30DM!! That is absoluteley not
> > >> acceptable!!
> >
> > >> Raimund
> > >> --
> >
> >
> > > Raimund,
> >
> > > when I read your post, I thought: Oh ya?, and thought you are blowing
> > > smoke. Well, I checked it out and not having a PC, I used iBrowse and V3.
> > > With iBrowse the price is DM24.70 with V3 DM29.50. You made your case.
> > > Now what? By the way, I only checked amazon.com here in the States and
> > > the paperback is quoted at $13.95. I did not check amazon.de.
> > > But this raises the question, why is this happening. Anyone of the Gurus
> > > out there having a wise thought?
> >
> > > Johann
> >
> > Check for a cookie for Amazon, I'm sure they count how many times you
> > visit and give you discount. I assume iBrowse's cookies are not used by V�
> > ;-)
> >
>
>
> Based on cookies? I doubt that. I could see a special discount based on
> purchase history, but not on visits. Their discounts are generally in
> line with the major chains. Furthermore, the discussion was not pricing
> by the book seller, but price difference based on different web site
> client programs.
>
> Johann
>
Did you have both IB and V� spoofing as Mozilla? Or, one set to
spoofing and not the other? You never can tell, Amazon might give
preferential treatment to users of certain browsers (so they think).
I jumped in on the middle of this, so which prices and for what
products? I would really like to try this with AWeb on the same thing
and compare notes (spoofing and Non, and using my copy of V� too of
coarse)
--
Regards,
David "Targhan" Crawford
Editor UGN-Times
