I'm always a bit perplexed when people think that retail will quickly devolve into "just get me the lowest price and buy it." There are so many forces at work from buyers, sellers, suppliers, wholesalers that work against buying by only low price, competing only on price, or even just searching for a combination of specs. While it is definitely the case that the 1999-2000 web brought many low priced "shop bot" like products (Nextag was my fav) they all hit the same set of problems and…