Tender my needs
Now that the world wide web
spins on the internet,
can we fill the tender need
to help us cut our debt?
We could enter our needs on a website,
defining the services we each require.
Suppliers could then provide quotes
so that we could meet our desire.
Standard pages would need be designed
for consistent data and tenderers needs.
We only enter data changes next time,
and they send new quotes by live feeds.
Consider your household insurance;
each time you now go for a quote,
you have to answer the same questions
for each supplier, so learn them by rote.
It could apply just the same for other insurance
like contents, your car, pet or holiday.
And, also for other services, fuel and phone
and more expensive goods we buy by the way.
No more searching through shops or phoning,
just wait for suppliers to respond in due course.
Then choose the quality and the price point
to suit your needs from a single web source.
This idea for a new method
follows e-mail and I.M.
I hope someone develops it
on the web as a stratagem.
Notes by the author
If an entrepreneur wishes to adopt and develop and implement this world beating idea [though tendering has been used extensively by large organisations for many years], I wish them good luck!.
Tenderers will need to standardise on data input page formats for each category and subcategory of consumer need, whether for goods, services, utilities, etc., or any combination of these.
It must be realised that marketing concerns (particularly the inefficient) will resist the introduction of such a revolutionary idea, and that it may even be worth while considering as a venture just to create the probable pay-off that will be offered not to proceed.
I also insist that little boxes will only be used for ticking when a human being wants, in principle, to receive something - not when wanting to stop something.
The marketing professionals have been very successful with the introduction of:-
SPAM to send unwanteds to unwantings.
Joint product promotions, to avoid price comparisons.
'Free' products, which are paid for.
'Interest free credit', which is paid for.