Introduction Which is the one place where you can satisfy your every need (almost every need) at your price? Be it airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, mortgages, new automobiles, or even long distance calling time. The answer would be Priceline.com. All you have to do is know your need, state your terms, and make your offer. It doesn't get easier than this! Priceline.com was one of the pioneer online companies to traverse the traditional limitations of the Internet and revolutionize online purchasing. It's strategy – letting the consumer name his/her price, and matching it with a seller who is willing to fill the demand at that price and those conditions, there by providing the required service the consumer desires. Thus Priceline.com is basically an integrated, Web-based e-marketing automated system, which was one of its kinds when it started its business in the consumer marketplace. In simple word it is the ideal middleman, who gets you what you want, when you want it!
             through a unique dotcom experience. Priceline.com was formed on April 6, 1998 as a limited liability company, but looking at its potential and rapid success it was soon converted into a corporation. It activities at this time dealt mainly with providing leisure airline tickets with the unique difference of letting the customer name his/her own price. By December 31, 1999 its services included hotel rooms, mortgages and new automobiles. The Company's licensee, Priceline WebHouse Club, Inc., soon launched a 'Name Your Own Price' service for groceries in the fourth quarter of 1999. Another licensee, Priceline Perfect Yard Sale, Inc., launched on a test basis in the first quarter of 2000, a consumer-to-consumer based 'Name Your Own Price', which involved the sale of quality, used goods over the Internet. Today after nearly three years of existence Priceline.com boasts a huge market share, loyal fan following and 373 employee...