1. Shopping Online Nicole Huang @AFL. NFU

2. E-tailers  E-tailer: a business that uses the Internet to sell its products  Retail: the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in small quantities  Retailer:a person, shop or business that sells goods to the public  Wholesaler: someone who buys and sells goods in large amounts to shops and businesses:

3. Shopping Bot  Shopping Bots: are electronic crawlers, who do the research for you by keeping track of merchandise offering and prices of thousands of e-tailers.

4. Hands-on Practice 1.Please search the most inexpensive price for your textbook from one of the following websites:  Textbook: How the Internet Works (Millennium Edition) by Preston Gralla; Copyright 1999 by Que ISBN: 0-7897-2132-5  Websites:Powell’s Bookshttp://www.powells.comhttp://www.powells.com Ecampus http://www.ecampus.comhttp://www.ecampus.com Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.comhttp://www.ask.com  Send your findings (website; keywords; book status (used/new..); price; handling charge; shipping charge; delivery method..) on your own blog. (DO NOT BUY IT UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT To )