3 ms·

Which leads to the obvious question - what part of business is not currently commoditised? Even auth (okta, GSuite) is a commodity.

• tarsinge 7y ago
  > what part of business is not currently commoditised? In the business of selling online? None I think, I don't see how dropshipping can fit in the future, what's the value of having a middle man that don't stock when goods producers can setup their own online shop or sell directly via Amazon?
  • thaumasiotes 7y ago
    > what's the value of having a middle man that don't stock when goods producers can... sell directly via Amazon? It seems like this scenario wouldn't work so well without a middleman not stocking the product(s). Can I rephrase your question as "what's the value in selling things on the internet, when Amazon already does that?"?
    • tarsinge 7y ago
      (Sorry if I miss your point or I wasn’t clear English is not my first language) I think producers that can selling directly on their website can be pretty legitimate (in theory they already know how to handle inventory and logistics). What I wanted to highlight was that nowadays given that producers can sell directly, or through Amazon if they can’t handle logistics, dropshipping has become irrelevant.