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> Local ecommerce is not viable because international is cheaper, faster & has extra advantages. I disagree, some companies in my own country try to claim the

> Local ecommerce is not viable because international is cheaper, faster & has extra advantages. I disagree, some companies in my own country try to claim the same, but when I look at the market, there are a lot of players, a lot of profit being made, it can be done. In a sense I have a suspicion that this is just some companies gotten lazy and not realising multitude of thing e-commerce provides. People want warranty, a nice fast mobile app in their native language, fast shipping, to support local companies - there's quite a lot a local company could offer. But a customer doesn't want to pay 10x as much and get quarter of that, that should be very clear.

netcan 6y ago
These things aren't absolute. But, at least in that country, you cannot use the postal service or major delivery services to deliver packages locally for a similar cost and delivery price as internationals... With amazon being the recent, and blatant culprit. They deal they did with the postal service are not a secret. Neither are delivery times. Monopolies, and the effect they have on the economy are not newtonian physics. It's not deterministic. Economic structures create prevailing winds, not airtight control over outcomes. Postal services are a structure. The structure creates a prevailing wind that heavily biases an outcome.