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Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by joez »

catch23 wrote: post #10
joez wrote: post #9

I'm not too sure of the technology that goes on behind your proxy but I just had an issue connecting to the server from behind my corporate firewall. Is this something you guys plan on tackling? I think a lot of people shop online at work and many of those are behind firewalls. A quick online search threw numbers at me like 50% and scaling upwards to like 75% as you get into the "facebook generation." Btw, great prod…

I don't know why it wouldn't work behind a firewall though -- everything goes through port 80. I use it behind a firewall too. Maybe your corporate firewall does more than just firewall packets, does it block sites with questionable content as well?

Probably. Maybe just me though? Anyone else?

I mean plurchase loads, just unable to connect to the server. So the tools worked but the social networking did not.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by seiji »

arithmetic wrote: post #8

Plurchase uses a neat idea to act as a proxy for shopping sites. They don't seem to be storing passwords before sending them off to the actual sites (which is good). I hope it takes off. Good luck!

Also, since all of your actions go through them, they attach their affiliate codes to every purchase. It's a better way of bringing in revenue than littering your site with ads of teeth falling out.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by tomsaffell »

callmeed wrote: post #13

On one hand, this is incredibly cool and impressive. On the other, I am married to a shoe fiend who spends her free time chatting with her shoe fiend friends ... and this site worries me greatly.

Haha! Thanks. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard: I'll check it out, but I'm not telling my wife about it..

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by arithmetic »

callmeed wrote: post #13

On one hand, this is incredibly cool and impressive. On the other, I am married to a shoe fiend who spends her free time chatting with her shoe fiend friends ... and this site worries me greatly.

It's like being stuck in a shoe store with your wife and her female friends. Forever.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by shahin »

jeffDef wrote: post #7
lrzhou wrote: post #5

I think you should make plurchase completely public, so that I can see everyone (and they can see me). That way, I don't have to invite my friends to shop + I can spy on other people (making it fun even when none of my friends are online).

We plan on supporting both public & private. Mostly just UI work to add the public functionality. One idea: when in a public shopping group/room, we'd replace the little preview boxes with a stream of just-product-pages as people visit them.

you can also keep track of how people browse the site from page to page, etc. and draw lots of good stats. e.g. similar to amazon's "people who bought these also bought..." or "people who viewed this ultimately bought..." but globally across multiple sites

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Post by [deleted] »

shahin wrote: post #18
jeffDef wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We plan on supporting both public & private. Mostly just UI work to add the public functionality. One idea: when in a public shopping group/room, we'd replace the little preview boxes with a stream of just-product-pages as people visit them.

you can also keep track of how people browse the site from page to page, etc. and draw lots of good stats. e.g. similar to amazon's "people who bought these also bought..." or "people who viewed this ultimately bought..." but globally across multiple sites

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Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

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Post by code_devil »

tomsaffell wrote: post #14
callmeed wrote: post #13

On one hand, this is incredibly cool and impressive. On the other, I am married to a shoe fiend who spends her free time chatting with her shoe fiend friends ... and this site worries me greatly.

Haha! Thanks. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard: I'll check it out, but I'm not telling my wife about it ..

Do you guys plan to also have integration within facebook .... like update the newsfeed, mini-feed etc like Facebook Connect Site ?
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