Every time we buy something online, we are confronted with Terms of Services. However, only a few people actually read these terms, before accepting them, often to their disadvantage. In this paper, we present the SaToS browser plugin which summarises and simplifies Terms of Services from German webshops.

As an important factor that affects customer purchase intention, online review has attracted the attention from both enterprises and researchers. According to persuasion theory, planned behavior theory and regulatory focus theory, combined with the three dimensions of online reviews, we construct a modified model of the influence of online reviews on customer purchase intention, and put forward...

Dutch municipalities have the right to decide on Sunday shop opening hours since 1996. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday trading in one way or another. Based on 2003 data we show that especially religious and political affiliation, regional differences and the size of the municipalities explain the variation between municipalities. T...

Prices for similar products often differ between retail outlets, leading consumers to actively search for products that meet their needs at the lowest possible price. Prices differ among retailers, and search intensity differs among consumers because search is a costly activity and consumers differ in their costs of search. How variety and the multiproduct nature of retailing affect search cost...

A new Core Broking Model (CBM) has been introduced to e-markets, involving joint-selling of multiple goods and offering volume discount for group-buying coalitions. It is a core-based model, maintaining the stability of coalitions and using physical brokers to resolve group-trading problems in e-markets. A survey has been made on the present commission of brokers and the current fees systems of...

In the past, a retailer usually chose only one market mechanism, either a posted price or an auction, for a product. However, currently some web stores sell a product at a posted price and simultaneously run auctions for the identical product. This new phenomenon has not been studied fully yet. We study a new selling mechanism, Dual Mechanism, where an online retailer combines two famous conven...

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