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The New York Times Oil Industry Balks at Priceline Gasoline Offer
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"Drivers in the U.S. may be looking forward to some relief from this year's higher gasoline prices by clicking onto Priceline.com 's new "name-your-own-price" program, but the lack of interest from oil companies may make its launch this summer bumpy. "

"But a number of oil companies say the idea, while an obvious boon for drivers, doesn't adequately benefit the oil industry.

"Unlike airline seats or hotel rooms which represent a loss when they aren't used, gasoline doesn't disappear when its not bought," said one oil company spokesman.

"We don't have to bargain away gasoline. The benefit would be brand loyalty, but there are a lot of effective ways to build that.""

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Priceline Name Your Own Price For Gasoline On The Internet, Then Get Your Price At A Local Gas Station
"Starting May 20th, Priceline WebHouse Club, a licensed affiliate of priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), will launch a new service that makes it possible for drivers to simply ignore the price at the pump. Instead, they can go to priceline.com on the Internet and name their own price for up to 50 gallons of gas a month. "
""This is the perfect time for consumers to do something about the high cost of gas. It's the battle of the titans -- the global Internet vs. global gas prices. OPEC was a force to increase the cost of gas. Now, the Internet is the new counter-force to lower it.""
PC World My Agent Will Call Your Agent
""This world that we are moving into of agent-mediated commerce is going to fundamentally change interactions between buyers and sellers," says Jeff Kephart, manager of the Agents and Emergent Phenomena Group at [IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center]. "I don't think it's more than a couple of years off.""

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