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Sorry, but saying, that fraud is entrepreneurial market disruption, is hogwash.

• onion2k 12y ago
  Note that Fiverr (who are the people I was saying are being disruptive) are not committing fraud. Some of the designers who sell through their platform might be, but that's not really any different to people who sell stolen things through eBay, or install pirated Wordpress plugins through eLance. It's definitely wrong for those people to be doing that, but focusing on the plagiarism aspect is a red herring. That's just some small (or large) number of users, not the platform itself. If you could eliminate all the fraud Fiverr would still be a disruptive platform.
  • dyarosla 12y ago
    You should not be calling something that's based around cheap labour disruptive nonetheless. Or rather, if you were to call Fiverr disruptive, it would not be for the "cheap" aspect but for the fact that their service provides a long list of fast-to-access freelancers (designers or other). A disruptive business is usually defined to be at least better OR faster than what exists that then capitalizes on market share. It can be cheaper only as an added bonus. If the single business advantage is being cheaper, the business is not disruptive, as it adds nothing that's novel or unique, and can simply be either undercut by some or bettered by other competitors.
  • jevgeni 12y ago
    I don't understand, how they would be able to offer competitive priced service, if they didn't rely on people either underselling or plagiarising. I'd understand, if there were some economies of scale that actually enabled the cost reduction, but in this case the nature of the product is always unique: you can seldom sell the same design to several clients, hence the only way to reduce the cost is to lower your margins. And hence it's a race to the bottom.