Do Price Charts Provided by Online Shopbots Influence Price Expectations and Purchase Timing Decisions?

Journal of Interactive Marketing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-109

  Drechsler, Wenzel ^a   Natter, Martin ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Price comparison sites; Price expectations; Purchase timing; Shopbots

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954995439     PISSN: 10949968     EISSN: 15206653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intmar.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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