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Shopping agents, better known as bots, are practically prehistoric in Internet terms. They've been around in one form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they...
...whole host of cool new bot technologies out there that may force Amazon to think again. Take mySimon.com the most successful of the independent bot sites. It's about to start a service that will e-mail you whenever any online merchant lowers its price for a particular item to an amount you're willing to pay. Feeling frugal about that $150 pair of binoculars? No problem; sit back and wait until the market takes it down to $99. Then jump on it. (As you would expect, there are auction bots that do exactly the same for eBay...
...ITEM: Deke Slayton's Omega Speedmaster wristwatch (4) ESTIMATE: $8,000 to $12,000 WENT FOR: $28,750 COMPARE WITH: NASA's Kodak-made 460 camera...
...ITEM: Apollo 13 stowage locker (5) ESTIMATE: $20,000 to $30,000 WENT FOR: $40,250 COMPARE WITH: Shuttle foot restraints...
...ITEM: Apollo command-module water container (6) ESTIMATE: $400 to $600 WENT FOR: $748 COMPARE WITH: Space-shuttle toilet @ $4 million