Mike Rubin

SLM 521

3/15/05

 

Online Shopping

 

Method

Description

Suggested Sites

Browsing

These sites allow the visitor to look through their site and find apparel that they would like to purchase

 www.underarmour.com-   This is an awesome website that provides the hottest apparel in sports today.  It is extremely easy to use and has amazing graphics.

 

 www.adidas.com

This website allows viewers to have a look at all of the products that adidas makes.   It is a very user friendly website.

Auctions

Gives the shopper an opportunity to bid on either memorabilia or merchandise possibly at a cheaper price.   Also allows the user to bid on hard to find items.

    www.ebay.com-

This is a great website that allows you to bid on many hard to find items.

 

  www.ubid.com

This is extremely similar to eBay,, although eBay seems to be more organized

Surplus and Clearance

These are sites that have a surplus of merchandise and therefore are selling it for very cheap.

http://www.overstock.com/

This site offers top products for 40-80% off the regular price.  

 

http://half.ebay.com/index.jsp

This also is a great website to find products that are at discounted prices.

Gift giving

This allows the user to buy gifts for someone, and even allows the opportunity to have the gifts shipped to the recipient’s house

 http://store.nba.com/gp/homepage.html/103-2995020-0991034?

This is a great site for the NBA fan.   It is extremely organized and allows you to view by either team, or category of item.

 

 http://shop.mlb.com/home/index.jsp

This site terrific for the MLB fan.   It is very extensive and has a great selection of merchandise

 

 

 

 

Comparison Shopping

These websites allow users to view different stores and buy things at the cheapest possible price, or allows them to read reviews about all of the companies.

 

 http://www.pricegrabber.com/

This is a great site for the user to find the best prices on a wide variety of items, anything from auto to dvd’s. 

 

 http://www.bizrate.com/

This site is very similar to price grabber in that it allows the view to compare prices from different stores.