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		ourmandave on June 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What works in e-commerce – A meta-analysis of onli... Hotels.com uses #2 ("X people have looked at hotels in this area in the last hour.") and it feels like a dick move.

omarchowdhury on June 21, 2017 [–]

Why is that a dick move if it's true?

ryanckulp on June 23, 2017 | [–]

what's unfortunate is we'll never know if hotels.com is true, because they built the component in-house.

the use of 3rd party platforms increases trust, ie restaurants using Yelp vs self-hosted text boxes.

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