My story of Group Shopping
Author: Udhayakumar
It was my great day of purchase! Social networking was customized to perform group shopping too!
On this day, I learnt a lot of lessons and also I found solutions too for certain problems with group shopping. A big question that was solved for me was: Can we make Group Shopping as our regular practice? I mean, can we buy each and every item through volume discounting? How can I bring my society into my rescue in gaining power to bargain with my local stores? I wanted to share my experience and solicit your thoughtful suggestions over them. Let me start by saying the objective I had for that day: “I wanted buy a television set at the lowest possible price, by applying any means of bargains that are currently available.”
I know, any sort of volume purchase may be a right choice in bringing the price down. As I wanted to buy only one television set, I required some more people to join my shopping. I turned to my close friend, he said, “Perhaps I also want to buy a television set but not this month”. I was little upset first as I my first attempt was shot down. But it was not a surprise for me. I cannot expect everyone to buy when I do. I reluctantly turned towards few more other friends, close and little closer ones. My friends circle is not huge enough to give me at least one more person who wants to buy a television set at this point of time. I didn’t like to give up ……. My next social circle will be my relatives. I called my wife and asked her to get hold of one of her cousin who was talking about buying a television set last month itself.
Not to my surprise, my wife hesitated and she said “Look dear! You are, sorry… we are, not good at bargains. My cousin may not feel comfortable in bargaining with us and it may cause some hitch among our relatives circle”. I know my wife under estimates my bargain skills, as she always does in any such things to me.
When I reached my office, I went to internet to search for the deals on television sets and seriously looked at their prices and deals. I couldn’t even complete searching a handful of website before I had realized that I had already consumed considerable amount work time. By the lunch time, I made a decision to take a half day off and go around the local shops.
I wanted to mention here something. There are many volume discounting web sites. I didn’t opt to buy through those sites as they involve credit card payments on line. Moreover, I didn’t like to buy my TV without seeing it physically. My preference is to buy from a local store which gives me some personal touch to my shopping.
When I started out I knew I cannot cover a lot many shops. I just noted down the addresses of few of them. I went around the shopping areas and I finished my window shopping and collected the details about the television sets and prices for them. I got to agree that I didn’t have enough time to visit couple of more shops that were in my wish list. But I had already exhausted all my body energy. Although physically tired my mind was still enthusiastic and energetic in pursuing my way. I said to myself, I had to make at least one more round to finish my window shopping another day. Even after all these efforts I was not happy and I was indecisive about a deal I should be confirming to.
When I reached home my wife was having happiness on her face as if I have already brought the television to home. When I got out t to explain my efforts and resulting tiredness she said she called her cousin and convinced him to join our shopping. I was double-happy that I have a group-shopping partner now. I saw her cousin waiting at my home.
With her cousin I went to the city center again and started searching for a good deal. I realized some increase in my confidence and my bargain tone has also become stronger. Before even enjoying my bargain power, I realized something else too. My hesitations, while asking the prices! I am missing something - the freeness in exercising my bargain skills! My wife was peeping into my mind constantly cautioning me about my bargain skills. I kept on mounting a smile on my face and looked at my shopping-partner each time I talked on the price to the sales person. I was not comfortable in freely bargaining as I was not sure how my partner will take my bargain capability.
For some reasons we couldn’t buy the television that day and we both returned back home. I sat down and tried to assimilate all the events that happened since morning. Questions started appearing to me. What if one could avoid all the hurdles in forming a group for buying any item at any point of time! This is the first of my requirement in group-shopping. Well, what if I find a group? – then, I want to freely exercise my wisdom in bargains.
In my search for answers I founded a web platform, doing all these magic. It works exactly the way I wished. I would bet, this is first of its own kind - Innovativeness in solving some peculiar shopping problems. Though it has its own downsides, at least it relieves some hurdles in group-shopping. The big plus point comes when the website allows the people to bargain for themselves but in an impersonalized way. I mean, I do not like to put a fake smile on my face to my friends when I bargain for a group.
I just want a group of people buying the same item. I should not be spending any time searching for my group. More importantly, the wait time to find such groups should not be too long. I do not like to even know who I am with in a group because I don’t like to wear a fake smile in convincing about my bargain capabilities.
I wanted to pool up the collective skills of such enthusiastic bargainers- even the calm but potential ones too. The web platform should offer equal opportunity to the members of the groups in bargaining and submitting their quotes without any one’s intervention.
Here is my web platform. Go shopping with www.ShoppingReps.com
Please review and share your suggestions and observations. It is really a Social Networking based group shopping towards volume discounting.
Methodology: Collect similar buying intentions into small groups that can be bargain potential. Allow the shoppers to bargain from their local stores for their respective groups. Select the best of the submitted quotes and serve to all in the group. Simple, isn’t it?
About the Author:
www.ShoppingReps.com is owned and operated by SANILSOFT LLP a privately owned company located in New Jersey, United States of America. SANILSOFT LLP welcomes suggestions from shoppers and vendors in making this new model a successful and beneficial to the internet community. It also looks forward for investors interested in making their investment worthy.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A social Networking solution for Group-Shopping in developing countries
Can we eliminate the use of credit cards to buy goods online?
Can we devise a shopping model that eliminates credit card requirement for online shopping?. If so, could it be a real boon to the countries, especially developing countries, where the credit card industry is in its infant stage? In such a condition, can it accelerate the growth of online buying through the internet in those countries? If such a model encourages the local businesses too, wouldn’t be an innovative model even in developed countries?
Social Networking + On-line Shopping = New Shopping model
All these above questions can be answered by blending two internet-world key words: Social Networking and Internet Shopping. Each one of them in their own respect is currently leading the human community to a new era of information management. Innovatively using the various flavors of social networking ideas through internet may certainly lead us to more productivity and better life style. By combining social-networking and shopping online, we can mold a new shopping model and show the world a new way to make the group bargains powerful. Bargains could be performed by customers themselves, for themselves. There is no need for inventory with online-vendors or not even the drop shipping. Then, let’s see how it is made possible.
How the new shopping model works?
Let us assume that we a have a web platform that enables people to get formed into small groups targeting towards buying specific products. Upon formation of such groups, we can allow the people in those groups to represent their own and bargain their prices from their local stores. Instead of bargaining for one, let them bargain for ten. This certainly empowers them to deal with the sellers from a better bargaining seat with bold voice. Assume further that the group is virtual and the selected shopper-representatives need not worry about who are in their groups. Don’t you think they will be much bolder and non-hesitant to exercise their own style of bargaining? This is where this shopping concept looks much philosophical and blends people closely into their bargains.
In short:
1. Aggregate buying intentions into bargain-potential groups. Key factor: a group stands for a specific product and all its members are from the same city. 2. Collect quotations from the randomly chosen group members for their respective groups. Each group will have its own pool of quotes submitted by their group members, collected from their choice of local stores. 3. Web platform Evaluates and picks the best quotes from the pools and serves them back to their respective groups.
How to integrate local businesses into internet online shopping world?
Now the question of “how this is going to boost the local businesses?” arises. It is very obvious that people don’t travel too long for buying. Most of the times they tend to buy from their local stores for various reasons. They may stretch out a little more but not too much. I propose this model to restrict the formation of groups to the city level or a little broader geographical entity such as county and districts. We will accept the quotes from the people from their own cities and the groups will be formed only from the same cities.
Developing Countries and New Shopping Model
As alluded in the title, this new model can well be fitted into developing economies without letting their local businesses be stolen by internet world. The countries like, India, Indonesia, China, Brazil, Mid-East, etc could get benefited from this new shopping model. They can utilize the power of online social networking cleverly for forming the groups, generating efficiently bargained competitive quotations by shoppers themselves, evaluating them, and communicating between members, groups and vendors, etc. Every task in the entire shopping cycle is done on internet except the final and actual buying part. This removes certain problems such as credit card issues, deviations between what we saw online and what we got, and warranties, trust levels in case of large price transactions, and immature behaviors and attitudes towards internet buying. The new shopping concept liberate developing countries and encourage them to engage into online shopping with free mind, as the new model is really a trimmed version of current practices.
A philosophical tinge to new Shopping model
Think about the people’s innate desires of attaining something through their own efforts. As we study in sociology about the fact of human beings realizing themselves through their own creations. Any item bought cheaper through some one’s bargaining always stay in the middle of the house as their monument of small achievement. One can always cherish their sweet memories of how they successfully brought down to cheaper price by exercising their intuitive bargain capabilities. Seeing how the people’s bargain capabilities cherish their own lives, we can think of giving importance to that in our new shopping model.
What is the role of Vendors in this new equation?
Is that all? No, we have more to add to this frame. Why shall not we allow the Sellers too to exercise their rights of participation in these deals? Let them submit their quotes too and let those quotes automatically get into bidding by paying a nominal fee to the web platform. Hey, I am now talking the business, right? After all, all I am doing here is to propose something new and establish a good business out of it. But it should benefit every one in the game. The vendors will have the advantage of being in each and every group-bidding from their cities.
About us – the first one to propose and prove its efficacies
Now, it is time to look at what is next. Please visit ShoppingReps.com which is built on these principles and it is fully functional. Give me your feedback on the concept and the platform that reflects everything we have seen so far. It has been well thought and built to offer all the functionalities we have discussed so far. As a proponent of this innovative shopping model, I would like the readers to render their criticismsScience Articles, comments and suggestions in order to enhance its adaptability.
The website offers free membership to the shoppers and vendors. It encourages shoppers to acquire quotes for themselves. The shoppers will know the size of the group and the complete product details for which they will be requested to fetch quotes from their own localities. Shoppers get their chance of testing their bargain capabilities and enjoy the benefits and fun of bargaining for a bulk order and a group. Only a few members from each group will be sought to acquire quotes. This reduces the shopping efforts that should have been made by every one if they shop alone. It saves the time of every one. This shopping platform offers many more benefits. Please witness them by your own participation into these shopping cycles.
Can we devise a shopping model that eliminates credit card requirement for online shopping?. If so, could it be a real boon to the countries, especially developing countries, where the credit card industry is in its infant stage? In such a condition, can it accelerate the growth of online buying through the internet in those countries? If such a model encourages the local businesses too, wouldn’t be an innovative model even in developed countries?
Social Networking + On-line Shopping = New Shopping model
All these above questions can be answered by blending two internet-world key words: Social Networking and Internet Shopping. Each one of them in their own respect is currently leading the human community to a new era of information management. Innovatively using the various flavors of social networking ideas through internet may certainly lead us to more productivity and better life style. By combining social-networking and shopping online, we can mold a new shopping model and show the world a new way to make the group bargains powerful. Bargains could be performed by customers themselves, for themselves. There is no need for inventory with online-vendors or not even the drop shipping. Then, let’s see how it is made possible.
How the new shopping model works?
Let us assume that we a have a web platform that enables people to get formed into small groups targeting towards buying specific products. Upon formation of such groups, we can allow the people in those groups to represent their own and bargain their prices from their local stores. Instead of bargaining for one, let them bargain for ten. This certainly empowers them to deal with the sellers from a better bargaining seat with bold voice. Assume further that the group is virtual and the selected shopper-representatives need not worry about who are in their groups. Don’t you think they will be much bolder and non-hesitant to exercise their own style of bargaining? This is where this shopping concept looks much philosophical and blends people closely into their bargains.
In short:
1. Aggregate buying intentions into bargain-potential groups. Key factor: a group stands for a specific product and all its members are from the same city. 2. Collect quotations from the randomly chosen group members for their respective groups. Each group will have its own pool of quotes submitted by their group members, collected from their choice of local stores. 3. Web platform Evaluates and picks the best quotes from the pools and serves them back to their respective groups.
How to integrate local businesses into internet online shopping world?
Now the question of “how this is going to boost the local businesses?” arises. It is very obvious that people don’t travel too long for buying. Most of the times they tend to buy from their local stores for various reasons. They may stretch out a little more but not too much. I propose this model to restrict the formation of groups to the city level or a little broader geographical entity such as county and districts. We will accept the quotes from the people from their own cities and the groups will be formed only from the same cities.
Developing Countries and New Shopping Model
As alluded in the title, this new model can well be fitted into developing economies without letting their local businesses be stolen by internet world. The countries like, India, Indonesia, China, Brazil, Mid-East, etc could get benefited from this new shopping model. They can utilize the power of online social networking cleverly for forming the groups, generating efficiently bargained competitive quotations by shoppers themselves, evaluating them, and communicating between members, groups and vendors, etc. Every task in the entire shopping cycle is done on internet except the final and actual buying part. This removes certain problems such as credit card issues, deviations between what we saw online and what we got, and warranties, trust levels in case of large price transactions, and immature behaviors and attitudes towards internet buying. The new shopping concept liberate developing countries and encourage them to engage into online shopping with free mind, as the new model is really a trimmed version of current practices.
A philosophical tinge to new Shopping model
Think about the people’s innate desires of attaining something through their own efforts. As we study in sociology about the fact of human beings realizing themselves through their own creations. Any item bought cheaper through some one’s bargaining always stay in the middle of the house as their monument of small achievement. One can always cherish their sweet memories of how they successfully brought down to cheaper price by exercising their intuitive bargain capabilities. Seeing how the people’s bargain capabilities cherish their own lives, we can think of giving importance to that in our new shopping model.
What is the role of Vendors in this new equation?
Is that all? No, we have more to add to this frame. Why shall not we allow the Sellers too to exercise their rights of participation in these deals? Let them submit their quotes too and let those quotes automatically get into bidding by paying a nominal fee to the web platform. Hey, I am now talking the business, right? After all, all I am doing here is to propose something new and establish a good business out of it. But it should benefit every one in the game. The vendors will have the advantage of being in each and every group-bidding from their cities.
About us – the first one to propose and prove its efficacies
Now, it is time to look at what is next. Please visit ShoppingReps.com which is built on these principles and it is fully functional. Give me your feedback on the concept and the platform that reflects everything we have seen so far. It has been well thought and built to offer all the functionalities we have discussed so far. As a proponent of this innovative shopping model, I would like the readers to render their criticismsScience Articles, comments and suggestions in order to enhance its adaptability.
The website offers free membership to the shoppers and vendors. It encourages shoppers to acquire quotes for themselves. The shoppers will know the size of the group and the complete product details for which they will be requested to fetch quotes from their own localities. Shoppers get their chance of testing their bargain capabilities and enjoy the benefits and fun of bargaining for a bulk order and a group. Only a few members from each group will be sought to acquire quotes. This reduces the shopping efforts that should have been made by every one if they shop alone. It saves the time of every one. This shopping platform offers many more benefits. Please witness them by your own participation into these shopping cycles.
A New Way to Group Shopping
A New Way to Group Shopping - The Next Level in Human Shopping Experience
The world never stops; rather, it continues to roll forward - including the internet world.
Is there a new way of shopping that would take the internet community to the next evolutionary level in our shopping practices? Yes, a correct mix of Social networking and the group shopping has sounded to be a possible answer. Such an innovative shopping methodology would not require using the credit card on line. Shoppers would bargain using web site but they will buy from their local stores. An aggregated shoppers group will be allowed to acquire quotes for their groups and a best quote will be picked from them and served to all in the group. One important feature of this shopping type is that it promotes the local business. Shoppers would be requested to get the quotes from their local stores for a group of people formed with the help of a web platform.
How will it work?
Any one who intends to buy a product should register their intentions to buy on a public web platform. The web platform will form shoppers into small groups that are intending to buy a product. These groups will be virtual since the details about the group members shall not be revealed to the other shoppers in the same group. When the web platform is able to form a group it would randomly pick up a few from the group and notify them about such group-formation. Those selected member representatives will be invited to acquire quotes for their groups and submit them to the web platform. Upon receipt of multiple quotes from the selected representatives the platform will evaluate them and pick the best one and send it to every one in the group. The members then can go to shop and buy the item in person on terms of the final quote that was served by the site.
Benefits of this new innovative shopping model :
Every one wants to enjoy the feeling of buying goods cheaper, that too the happiness doubles up when they themselves bargain and win the cheaper prices. Bargaining is human instinct and it needs to be satiated through healthy, happier and safer ways.
Though the traditional way of group bargaining may bring huge savings, they do not happen often due to several practical reasons. For example, one may not have trust in some one's bargain capabilities or one may not find others to bind into group in time or one may not have a huge friends and relative circles. The shoppers may get the groups easily in such social network based group shopping platforms and will not encounter any such awkward situations that generally occur when they bargain for known group of friends or relatives.
Triangular Quote Bidding
Even Vendors will also allowed to present their quotations ahead of group formations. The web platform also can try to make efforts in bringing enough number of quotations that will make the bargain much effective in bringing down the prices. This healthy triangular competition for winning a group will offer equal opportunity to every one in the game.
Shoppers are welcome to give their feedbacks and suggestions on this innovative shopping model.
Enjoy your shopping! Enjoy the power of group bargain!
ShoppingReps.com is the first such a website developed on the shopping methodology described above. It has presented a suitable platform to reflect this novel shopping idea. This concept and methodology is new to the internet world. The website offers free membership to the shoppers and vendors. It encourages shoppers to acquire quotes for themselves. The shoppers will know the size of the group and the complete product details for which they will be requested to fetch quotes from their own localities. Shoppers get their chance of testing their bargain capabilities and enjoy the benefits and fun of bargaining for a bulk order and a group.
ShoppingReps.com is owned and operated by SANILSOFT LLP a privately owned company located in New Jersey, United States of America. SANILSOFT LLP welcomes suggestions from shoppers and vendors in making this new model a successful and beneficial to the internet community. We also look forward for investors interested in making their investment worthy.
The world never stops; rather, it continues to roll forward - including the internet world.
Is there a new way of shopping that would take the internet community to the next evolutionary level in our shopping practices? Yes, a correct mix of Social networking and the group shopping has sounded to be a possible answer. Such an innovative shopping methodology would not require using the credit card on line. Shoppers would bargain using web site but they will buy from their local stores. An aggregated shoppers group will be allowed to acquire quotes for their groups and a best quote will be picked from them and served to all in the group. One important feature of this shopping type is that it promotes the local business. Shoppers would be requested to get the quotes from their local stores for a group of people formed with the help of a web platform.
How will it work?
Any one who intends to buy a product should register their intentions to buy on a public web platform. The web platform will form shoppers into small groups that are intending to buy a product. These groups will be virtual since the details about the group members shall not be revealed to the other shoppers in the same group. When the web platform is able to form a group it would randomly pick up a few from the group and notify them about such group-formation. Those selected member representatives will be invited to acquire quotes for their groups and submit them to the web platform. Upon receipt of multiple quotes from the selected representatives the platform will evaluate them and pick the best one and send it to every one in the group. The members then can go to shop and buy the item in person on terms of the final quote that was served by the site.
Benefits of this new innovative shopping model :
Every one wants to enjoy the feeling of buying goods cheaper, that too the happiness doubles up when they themselves bargain and win the cheaper prices. Bargaining is human instinct and it needs to be satiated through healthy, happier and safer ways.
Though the traditional way of group bargaining may bring huge savings, they do not happen often due to several practical reasons. For example, one may not have trust in some one's bargain capabilities or one may not find others to bind into group in time or one may not have a huge friends and relative circles. The shoppers may get the groups easily in such social network based group shopping platforms and will not encounter any such awkward situations that generally occur when they bargain for known group of friends or relatives.
Triangular Quote Bidding
Even Vendors will also allowed to present their quotations ahead of group formations. The web platform also can try to make efforts in bringing enough number of quotations that will make the bargain much effective in bringing down the prices. This healthy triangular competition for winning a group will offer equal opportunity to every one in the game.
Shoppers are welcome to give their feedbacks and suggestions on this innovative shopping model.
Enjoy your shopping! Enjoy the power of group bargain!
ShoppingReps.com is the first such a website developed on the shopping methodology described above. It has presented a suitable platform to reflect this novel shopping idea. This concept and methodology is new to the internet world. The website offers free membership to the shoppers and vendors. It encourages shoppers to acquire quotes for themselves. The shoppers will know the size of the group and the complete product details for which they will be requested to fetch quotes from their own localities. Shoppers get their chance of testing their bargain capabilities and enjoy the benefits and fun of bargaining for a bulk order and a group.
ShoppingReps.com is owned and operated by SANILSOFT LLP a privately owned company located in New Jersey, United States of America. SANILSOFT LLP welcomes suggestions from shoppers and vendors in making this new model a successful and beneficial to the internet community. We also look forward for investors interested in making their investment worthy.
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Shoppers in www.shoppingreps.com, as a group, can bargain and buy any item including products of Electrical and Electronics, Home Appliances, Cars, Two wheelers, Industrial machines, Digital Cameras, Mobile Phones, LCD and Plasma Televisions, Kitchen Appliances, Home Theatre Systems, Laptop and Desktop Computers, Computer peripherals, Computer Courses including .Net, J2EE, CCNA and LAMP.
Shoppers are formed into bargain efficient virtual groups. They will then be offered opportunities to bargain for their own groups.
Our shopping model offers equal opportunities to Vendors and Website » Representatives also in providing valid quotes that would be evaluated along with quotes provided by Shoppers and the best quote will be sent to all the Shoppers in that group.
Top 10 Reasons why you may not bargain for a group.
Your friends may not like the way you bargain
Your wife may think you are a bad bargainer
You may not have time to shop around for best price
You are tired of going around too many shops
You may not have a big friends and relatives circles
Your neighbor may not like you having the same TV
You may hesitate to ask for a lower price
You may not know all product details
You may look good for paying a higher price
You may not be good in talking
But, we break all these bad rules.
The website will select a few from each group. Their quotes will be evaluated for the final deal. Selected shopper will not know any details about the other members in the group for whom the bargain is to be made. The shopper selected for submitting their own quote will know only about the quantity and number of members in the group along with the product details.
Shoppers in www.shoppingreps.com, as a group, can bargain and buy any item including products of Electrical and Electronics, Home Appliances, Cars, Two wheelers, Industrial machines, Digital Cameras, Mobile Phones, LCD and Plasma Televisions, Kitchen Appliances, Home Theatre Systems, Laptop and Desktop Computers, Computer peripherals, Computer Courses including .Net, J2EE, CCNA and LAMP.
Shoppers are formed into bargain efficient virtual groups. They will then be offered opportunities to bargain for their own groups.
Our shopping model offers equal opportunities to Vendors and Website » Representatives also in providing valid quotes that would be evaluated along with quotes provided by Shoppers and the best quote will be sent to all the Shoppers in that group.
Top 10 Reasons why you may not bargain for a group.
Your friends may not like the way you bargain
Your wife may think you are a bad bargainer
You may not have time to shop around for best price
You are tired of going around too many shops
You may not have a big friends and relatives circles
Your neighbor may not like you having the same TV
You may hesitate to ask for a lower price
You may not know all product details
You may look good for paying a higher price
You may not be good in talking
But, we break all these bad rules.
The website will select a few from each group. Their quotes will be evaluated for the final deal. Selected shopper will not know any details about the other members in the group for whom the bargain is to be made. The shopper selected for submitting their own quote will know only about the quantity and number of members in the group along with the product details.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Save more money while you shop!
Hey Everyone,
check out this new online site, its going to be bigger in future. New shopping model will make you save more money while you shop….how good is that ??
ShoppingReps!
Simply register, that’s free, and start to pick up some fantastic bargains, but don't forget to use the “refer your friends” button to spread the word.
Thanks
check out this new online site, its going to be bigger in future. New shopping model will make you save more money while you shop….how good is that ??
ShoppingReps!
Simply register, that’s free, and start to pick up some fantastic bargains, but don't forget to use the “refer your friends” button to spread the word.
Thanks
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