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Re: sale @ etoys.com
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:40:21 GMT
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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
Ran Talbott wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Mark Sandlin writes:
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> >
> > where's that extra $ going?
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> Webhosting, software development, photography for their webpage images, hot
> tubs in the executive washrooms ... ;-)
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> 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.
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> 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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