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order/time in which feedback was received and the detail of the qualitative feedback review<br />

comments of online-auction RR WOW.<br />

Also, future research could assess which service-performance attributes are most important<br />

to online-auction consumers/bidders, determine how seller’s should “respond” to negative<br />

comments and manage service recovery or brand building, or consider the impact of a<br />

consumer’s ability to sort comments by their type, positive, neutral or negative (such sorting<br />

is indeed feasible at http://www.vrane.com).<br />

At a broader level, detailed research into other types of word-of-web that are commonly used<br />

online by retailers, such as e-newsletters or email, could prove very profitable. In fact, at the<br />

present time, learning more about these two particular types of WOW could be extremely<br />

important given the prevalence and negative perceptions of Spam-email.<br />

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