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As an online jewelry store has lower overhead, they will easily be able to maintain lower prices discount jewelry and because they often do not stock jewelry, but to send orders from suppliers, they will not anticipate rising costs, but can more easily sell in “real time “.
Online stores that will be hardest hit are the small, mom and pop jewelry stores who do not have the technology and labor, rather than replace items’prices
Previously, gold may remain in the $500 an ounce, or close to it every time in many months, giving online jewelers ample time to enter their sites and change their hundreds – or sometimes tens of thousands of items. Now, with weekly and sometimes the price of gold on the dramatic changes in daily, online jeweler to change their prices fast enough to adapt to customer requirements may be difficult.
This may take advantage of the jewelry customers, when gold goes up, and they might be able to find deals on the website owners have the time to participate in and change before their prices. It may prove disadvantages for consumers, while gold prices retreated, and the jewelry website owners do not have enough time to go back and lower their prices in order to remain competitive.
One such example is Apples of Gold Jewelry, which anticipating dramatic changes in gold prices had custom programs built for their jewelry website of over 1,500 jewelry items. Their programs (scripts) allow their administrators to rapidly change prices on over 15,000 published web pages at the click of a button through an algorithm that tracks the price of gold and updates prices based on current gold prices.
Websites like these will have current and up-to-date gold jewelry prices, compared to smaller stores who have to go in and manually update thousands of pages—which can take weeks—or more likely months for stores with more items.
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