The comparative analysis of Beautybay.com and Strawberrynet.com

Essay by revlona23University, Master'sC+, August 2006

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Introduction.

Business to consumer websites are very helpful tools for shopping and making purchases. A shopper no longer has to drive to the mall to pick up a few items, they can just surf the web and have their items shipped in a day or two.

I have explored two web sites both within the same industry - beauty industry. First, The brief information of both companies will be presented. Then I will compare these companies according to Performance of Web page; the delivery; the payment methods, which these companies accept; the security. And, finally, I will compare

prices, by ordering the same product from both Companies.

Beautybay.com and Strawberrynet.com are the sites being explored.

Company Information

Beautybay.com

BeautyBay.com is one of the trading websites for FragranceBay.com Ltd, an Internet retailer trading since 1999.

The mission of the company is to provide a customer with premium beauty products at extremely competitive prices 24 hours a day.

Being a pure-play Internet retailer, Beautybay.com costs are considerably lower than a High Street retailer, and the company pride itself on passing these savings on to a customer.

Strawberrynet.com

Strawberrynet.com is a Hong Kong based company, operating since 1996 and currently supplying customers in over one hundred different countries.

The company is Biz Rate Gold Star rated by over 10,000 customers

Operating on Yahoo Shopping for several years, this retailer has a 4.5 Stars Very Good rating.

The Performance of Web pages.

Strawberrynet.com is the most widely know site among these two. When you start searching cosmetics to buy The Strawberrynet.com will be the first site recommended. Strawberrynet is an eye catcher. When you first get to the site it has nice violet colors and large titles - this really catches the user's attention. In this Internet-shop a user can find basically whatever he...