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Almost no one would find his web site, and if they did, they probably would not give him their credit card details (probably a good idea, too).
by jmull 7y ago
Almost no one would find his web site, and if they did, they probably would not give him their credit card details (probably a good idea, too).
- scarface74 7y agoPeople have loss all sense of hustle. As far as exposure, there are FaceBook and Google ads. You can do credit cards through PayPal or even use the Web Payments API that let you do secure payments on the web via a company like Stripe and that will work with Apple and Google Pay.
- robjan 7y agoIt's not really about sense of hustle. The problem is on the demand side, not the supply side. The vast majority of people would not trust a fly-by-night website selling hand sanitisers at elevated price.
- scarface74 7y agoAs opposed to trusting fly by night third party sellers on Amazon who have not been vetted. It’s not like Amazon has a sterling reputation for selling legitimate goods.
- robjan 7y agoAmazon has a bad reputation but in almost all cases issues are resolved quickly. Nobody is going to write about their good experience with Amazon.
- scarface74 7y agoResolving an issue is only helpful if you know that you have a fake good. For instance it was widely reported that companies were selling defective helmets and that people didn’t know until after their loved ones were in a fatal accident. If you do know the goods are fake and you pay with a credit card, you dispute it with your credit card company.
- robjan 7y agoOkay, so how is this a problem that exists with Amazon and not the hypothetical website that this man should have set up? We're starting to go off on a bit of a tangent here.
- scarface74 7y agoThe problem exists either way. Amazon vs third party website doesn’t give you any more or less assurances.
- jmull 7y agoYou think the lesson here is about hustle? Heh.
- scarface74 7y agoThe lesson is that if your idea of a successful business plan is depending on competing on a commodity platform without any differentiator, it’s more than likely to fail. That’s not only about Amazon and Ebay, but also depending on SEO on Google, the app stores, etc.