新应用大学英语第一册新版课件Unit-6-E-commerce.pptx

;Objectives;;Task 1 Make a list of items that you can buy online.;;;PartA_1;PartA_1;In-depth Reading;;1 It’s fair to say that the Internet has revolutionized our shopping habits. In the past we had no choice but to traipse up and down the high street looking for the best deal, now we can do it from the comfort of our armchairs. 2 But there are disadvantages too. The high street is on a relatively small scale. You can see the shops you want to go to and simply head in their direction. But the Internet is too vast to contemplate—and you’ve got to hunt for the shops that you want to visit. If you don’t know where to go, then you could end up with a worse deal than you would have got using up your shoe leather. 3 There are now websites around which try to guide people through the online maze. One of these, Haggle4me, aims to get you the best possible deal. ;Bargain hunt 4 The idea is pretty simple. You put in the best price you’ve found (with however much or little effort) for whatever it is you’re after—let’s say it’s a new television for $600. Other visitors to the website then search the web using their contacts and try to get you a better deal—let’s say they find the same TV for $500. That means you’ve saved $100. As long as you’ve saved at least $20, then you pay a fifth of the saving to the haggler who found the deal (in this case, $20). The haggler then pays a quarter of the fee to the website (in this example, $5). 5 There seems to be little to lose as long as you try to find the best price you can in the first place. If you put in a manufacturer’s recommended retail price (RRP), for example, the savings might be huge but then the haggler’s fee would be much larger too. You can often beat the RRP very easily by simply using one of the many price comparison websites out there (Kelkoo or PriceRunner, for example).;6 That brings us to the big drawback of Haggle4me: time. Most of us are impatient and once we’ve decided we want something, we want it th