Should We Have A Price Comparison Site In Malaysia?
I had thought of this years ago back then, when I find it difficult to find a place that compiled all the cheap or affordable prices of goods we want to buy. But in Malaysia, the IT development was so slow besides the tremendous facilities like MSC.
In USA for examples, their electronic or products shops make an aggressive promotion using internet as their main sales platform.Usually, they had a program or JV partner solution for that and release an API for publishers so they can easily automate the changes of the price at the main site.Or as simple as they integrate an affiliate program to make sure they can get viral marketing sales which could provide them a good and decent amount of sales and money.
But in Malaysia, I don’t see many big companies like Sony, took up this advantage and mostly rely on traditional way of business.This is miss opportunity for a them to take up advantage of the current $100 Billion of sales on the internet.
The main question is, should we have a price comparison site in Malaysia?
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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March 8th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hiya!
Came across your domain from liewcf.. Very interesting site with personal commentaries to it.
On your question “should we have a price comparison site in Malaysia?”, I think Malaysians are not ready yet at least for this type of sites, unless it is a some gadget price comparison. Give it another 2 - 3 years.
But then again, most consumers prefer to test drive gadgets at stores (which aren’t put up online), so the prices would again varies by 3 - 5%. Btw, I used to run a simple site at http://goodies.coveragemag.com/ . Not a comparison engine, but just putting up brochures in a better formats.
Traffic was impressive at the start, later it just die off. Developing a comparison engine for products is also not easy, judging from a lot of factors and resources involved.
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March 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Thanks Jared.By the way, I agree that Malaysians are not ready to this price comparison site.Although our people more likely to ” feel” the goods they want to buy.Understanding the culture is important before we make anything.
This could be happen if just include eletronic products but no Malaysians eletronic stores come out with solution.Example, release an API so then we can track the price automaticcally.
Apart from that, thanks to come here.Hope to see you more.