Taobao published a SMS parity service

Online, October 20, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Before ordering, as long as a buyer spends one Mao made sending a short message; he can know whether the thing that he is ready to buy is worthwhile and cost-effective, and whether he needs to bargain.

Journalist learned from Taobao.com, the website has cooperated with China Mobile to launch mobile phone parity short message service. Consumers just need to send a message; they can get the product information of online price anywhere anytime and have a price comparisons online or offline.
The reporter learned from Taobao.com that consumers need to send an "S +Brand Model" to 106,637,213,721, they can find the corresponding commodity prices on Taobao.com, but the fees are simply a normal text message price.
Taobao.com responsible person expressed behind the parity services, there is whole Taobao.com commodity library as a powerful database support. In addition, it provides with consumers not an ordinary commodity bid, but a more reference value of the commodity transaction price for purchase.
In accordance with Hangzhou Price Bureau published information, the early Bosch refrigerator's (Model: KGF25966TI) retail price in Hangzhou shopping malls is about 5900-6426 Yuan.
According to the way Taobao.com provided, journalist sent a short message. After a few seconds, the journalist received a message - "Bosch KGF25966TI's average price is 5363 Yuan." In other words, the online quote price is 500 Yuan lower than shopping malls and stores.
"Although I do not necessarily buy a refrigerator online, but with this sort of parity, I will at least know that whether I can bargain with sellers and how much is the bargaining room, especially buy bulk merchandise." An online shopping fan told reporters ".

As a peer of Taobao.com at e-commerce, epathchina.com (www.epathchina.com) has been always paying attention to the domestic leading e-commerce platform. Certainly, epathchina.com shows its interest to the new service, which may inspire epathchina.com subsequent business service.

"The same goods, the traditional retail prices tend to be higher than online prices, which are determined by marketing costs." Mr. Huang, the CEO of epathchina.com (www.epathchina.com) said, "I think that online prices have a certain reference value, but attempt to keep the traditional retail prices and online prices unchanged are impossible. After all, rent and personnel costs of the traditional marketing and Internet sales are completely different. "