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Re: sale @ etoys.com
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:24:31 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mark Sandlin writes:
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> where's that extra $ going?
Webhosting, software development, photography for their webpage images, hot
tubs in the executive washrooms ... ;-)
I'm not an expert, so I don't know what all the similarities and differences
in costs are. I just wanted to point out that there are things we take for
granted (like the way brick-and-mortar stores use "volunteer labor" by their
customers for picking orders) that *might* mean that etoys isn't making as
much money as you appear to believe.
The spectacular failures of a couple of their competitors this year ought to
be a hint that it's not as easy as it looks.
Ran
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| But there's labor in shelving (and reshelving and reshelving and straightening up after the kids and their parents) in a brick store. The only volunteer part is the "delivery". Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) You're forgetting the fact that online stores don't have to pay for store overhead like the ones in the mall, and if they're selling most things at mall-store retail prices, where's that extra $ going? ~Mark (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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