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What is a benefit of e-auctions to sellers?
-Convenience since the bidding can occur anywhere and anytime
-High stickiness to the web site
-Annonymity
-The optimal price is determined by the market

Because online buyer's decisions depend on numerous independant and intervening variables, decsions made by customers are classified as?
-independant variables
-dependant variables
-intervening variables
-decision variables

All of the following are types of communication and collaboration done in real time EXCEPT?
-blogging
-webinars
-instant messaging
-VoIP

Most universities use e-learning?
-exclusively in reaching students who couldn't otherwise attend classes
-only when forced by administrators to use it as a way to recruit distant students or reduce cost
-as a total replacement for traditional classrooms
-as a supplementary channel to traditional classrooms

A_______is suitable for mobile users who need to make very short-range device to device wireless connections within a small space, such as a single room, and most commonly with Bluetooth?
-wireless area network
-local area network
-personal area network
-Wi-Fi area network

_______work best with may buyers and sellers?
-bartering
-dynamic exchanges
-forward auctions
-reverse auctions

A card that draws the payment directly from the users checking account is called a (an)?
-e-payment card
-credit card
-charge card
-debit card

The _____pricing strategy means adding up all the costs involved, such as material, labor, rent, overhead and so forth and adding a percentage mark-up as profit.
-cost plus
-competitor model
-revenue markup
-price percentage

All of the following are ways to use the internet to find information about an individual EXCEPT?
-stealing an individuals computer
-using cookies, spyware, or keystroke loggers
-wiretapping communications lines
-reading an individuals email, IM blogs or text messages

Key strategies for successful online community include all of the following EXCEPT?
-increasing traffic and participation in the community
-controlling the sharing of information or sensitive opinions
-focusing on the needs of the members, use facilitators and coordinators
-obtaining financial sponsorship

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-Convenience since the bidding can occur anywhere and anytime

-Dependent variables-since decisions are dependent on numerous independent and intervening variables

-Blogging-in blogging individuals post their ...

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