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I don't understand the issue here. Seems to me that in free market, Amazon has the right to reach out to perspective partners wherever they may doing business.
by O1111OOO 8y ago
I don't understand the issue here. Seems to me that in free market, Amazon has the right to reach out to perspective partners wherever they may doing business. Ebay, likewise, could do the same.
Many years ago, I use to shop ebay and always dreaded the clumsy checkout process (among other things including the issue of trust). I don't know if it's improved... To me, that's the core issue. Companies like eBay, Walmart and others want to compete on the same level as Amazon but they don't do enough to improve services (customer service, shipping, checkout, UIs, etc).
Instead of competing on overall value, they turn to "IP" lawsuits, poaching and general bullying.
There's a flipside too. Large companies tend to have an advantage but in this case, eBay isn't small. They can improve in many ways but like Sears... they are stuck in a specific and closed mindset.
I give Amazon lots of credit for being free-thinking and innovative. They started with books and somehow managed to get into cloud services in a huge way. They don't corner themselves. Ebay needs to think outside of their comfortable box because, down the road, consumers will need the competition.
- jethro_tell 8y agoI think you can, I assume they were using the ebay platform, messaging sellers is probably against the ToS.
- jdmichal 8y agoThis post is a little ironic on the pro-Amazon front, what with the complaining about Ebay's checkout process while Amazon holds the one-click-buy patent...
- sigstoat 8y agothe patent expired last year. ebay could've had some version of it ready to roll out automatically within seconds of whatever expiration time was approved by the legal department. personally i've never used one click purchasing on amazon, and their checkout still feels better than ebay's. the real irony is: > (among other things including the issue of trust) when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from.
- O1111OOO 8y ago> sigstoat: the real irony is: >> me: (among other things including the issue of trust) > sigstoat: when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from. I was referring to sellers being allowed to include their own JS and Flash on listings[0] and the high-profile hacking cases along with ebay's response[1,2]. Sellers were also allowed to include 3rd-party templates to list their items (which can lead to yet another attack vector). This may still be happening but like I said, I abandoned ebay some time ago. Also, when purchasing on ebay, you're always dealing directly with a seller. It's a marketplace, a bazaar. It's their business model (but like I said, it can mutate into something else). Unlike Amazon (where you always "feel" you're dealing with a single company - comingling aside), on ebay you never feel like you're dealing with a single entity. As a result, I always felt on high alert: investigating sellers, viewing their reputations, etc... it's time-consuming and an effort. It constantly forces me to question... to trust. [0] https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ [1] https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team12_eBayHacks.pdf https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team... [2] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting-flaws-being-actively-exploited-by-fraudsters.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting...
- brianwawok 8y agoGood news! EBay doesn’t allow active content anymore. So no JavaScript.