http://gapingvoid.com/2004/02/26/shopping-prefs/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:03:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://gapingvoid.com/2004/02/26/shopping-prefs/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Nia Fri, 27 Feb 2004 05:41:51 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=225#comment-163 The key to whether consumers want to have human contact or not seems to be, at least in part, how much they trust the seller, doesn't it? I mean,I don't know if it is the same abroad but in my culture, a banker is basically someone who steals your money from you with a little help from politicians. And you always get the feeling that the travel agency is ultimately responsible for anything that might go wrong at the airport or the hotel. While, on the other hand, pharmacists are more or less as respectable as doctors and I would ask the shop-assistant if the clothes I'm trying on look good on me -and maybe let her convince me they do look good. So, in short: if people like/trust the seller, don't bother selling it online. (?) The key to whether consumers want to have human contact or not seems to be, at least in part, how much they trust the seller, doesn’t it? I mean,I don’t know if it is the same abroad but in my culture, a banker is basically someone who steals your money from you with a little help from politicians. And you always get the feeling that the travel agency is ultimately responsible for anything that might go wrong at the airport or the hotel. While, on the other hand, pharmacists are more or less as respectable as doctors and I would ask the shop-assistant if the clothes I’m trying on look good on me –and maybe let her convince me they do look good.
So, in short: if people like/trust the seller, don’t bother selling it online. (?)

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/02/26/shopping-prefs/comment-page-1/#comment-162 franny Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:52:11 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=225#comment-162 ah. internet = similar to people. ah. internet = similar to people.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/02/26/shopping-prefs/comment-page-1/#comment-161 hugh Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:24:16 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=225#comment-161 Yes, Franny. That was also there in the line, in a kinda Garrison-Keillor-character understatement kinda way ;-) Yes, Franny. That was also there in the line, in a kinda Garrison-Keillor-character understatement kinda way

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/02/26/shopping-prefs/comment-page-1/#comment-160 franny Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:18:38 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=225#comment-160 all people, really. nobody's good at everything. all people, really. nobody’s good at everything.

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