Before ordering, as long as a buyer spends one Mao made sending a short message; he can know whether the thing that he is ready to buy is worthwhile and cost-effective, and whether he needs to bargain.
Journalist learned from Taobao.com, the website has cooperated with China Mobile to launch mobile phone parity short message service. Consumers just need to send a message; they can get the product information of online price anywhere anytime and have a price comparisons online or offline.
The reporter learned from Taobao.com that consumers need to send an "S +Brand Model" to 106,637,213,721, they can find the corresponding commodity prices on Taobao.com, but the fees are simply a normal text message price.
Taobao.com responsible person expressed behind the parity services, there is whole Taobao.com commodity library as a powerful database support. In addition, it provides with consumers not an ordinary commodity bid, but a more reference value of the commodity transaction price for purchase.
In accordance with Hangzhou Price Bureau published information, the early Bosch refrigerator’
According to the way Taobao.com provided, journalist sent a short message. After a few seconds, the journalist received a message - "Bosch KGF25966TI‘s average price is 5363 Yuan." In other words, the online quote price is 500 Yuan lower than shopping malls and stores.
"Although I do not necessarily buy a refrigerator online, but with this sort of parity, I will at least know that whether I can bargain with sellers and how much is the bargaining room, especially buy bulk merchandise."
As a peer of Taobao.com at e-commerce, epathchina.com (www.epathchina.com)
"The same goods, the traditional retail prices tend to be higher than online prices, which are determined by marketing costs." Mr. Huang, the CEO of epathchina.com (www.epathchina.com)
