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Ask HN: Would small business owners like this?

Posted by sksa on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi, I have an idea of helping small online business owners get more sales and customers, and I'd love to hear what you think. So here it goes:The main idea is for you to win those sales that you'd have otherwise lost to your competitors by offering a lower price to customers in 'private'.I'm thinking of creating an online 'private' platform where I would reach out to customers who are about to...

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Re:Ask HN: A new way of online buying and selling. Viable? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @10:39AM (#8347257)
How are they doing?
Re:Ask HN: A new way of online buying and selling. Viable? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @10:37AM (#8347251)
By working within the commission charges by Amazon. I know this is hard.
Re:Ask HN: A new way of online buying and selling. Viable? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @10:29AM (#8347233)
I think there's a misunderstanding here. The price will not be found elsewhere. It will be a price that's created by me based on several factors - one being the lowest price available in the market.
Re:Ask HN: A new way of online buying and selling. Viable? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @10:24AM (#8347222)
Things would be sold cheaper than competition and that's right. However, the unique part of the idea is to keep the price private - it is only revealed to the buyer who has already decided he wants to buy that item. This would be the solution for small to mid size retailers in getting sales diverted to them from those big players. Prices are kept private for a reason - to soften the onset of price competition.
Re:Ask HN: A new way of online buying and selling. Viable? on Sunday September 21, 2014 @10:16AM (#8347203)
I don't really have a complete idea of how the customer journey works for the time being. But basically the customer would come to the website and tell me what he wants to buy. I'll then create him a lower priced offer that's only for him. There wouldn't be a bartering phase. Instead, he gets a fixed price from me, one that's lower than what he has found earlier from Amazon.

Ask HN: Would it be a good idea to compete on price?

Posted by sksa on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:37AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Anyone knows of a startup (successful or not) which competes on price through offering the same value at a lower price? - The 3rd way stated in the article.link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/actiontrumpseverything/2013/04/13/how-the-best-entrepreneurs-compete-on-price/

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