There are some items you can't buy online

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There are some items you can't buy online

12-04-2006, 09:59 AM,

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There are some items you can't buy online

Quote:How is it that after all this time, there are still products you cannot buy over the Internet? Odd as it sounds, some well-known, legitimate companies have still not gravitated their sales online.

As the Christmas buying season nears, the absurdity of it is all the more clear to prospective armchair shoppers like myself. It is not much different than a publishing company preventing its best-read novels from being sold in bookstores...

L'Oreal and several other cosmetics manufacturers have barred distributors from selling their high-end beauty lines online, or have made the requirements so stiff that it would cost a merchant dearly to comply. For instance, L'Oreal demanded that an online sales agent provide video equipment to connect a customer with a cosmetics consultant for interactive Web chats in real time...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/6vSrwFie...line.xhtml

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