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by robryan 9y ago
Some jurisdictions also make it almost impossible for an overseas company to register. FBA for international companies is really problematic. If your company has a real physical presence and employees in a state compliance with sales tax is
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah stores must spend a lot of time on manually marking things down. Plenty of room for innovation, would just need to move to digital price displays.
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Economics behind it mean throwing them out is the most cost effective thing they can do. It would probably require something like a government penalty or incentive around food waste to change.
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Here in Australia if a supermarket was regularly out of things that they normally stock I would shop elsewhere. Are people in the US more accustomed to going to multiple shops to get groceries?
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Yeah, last year on Spotify my favorite band was my 4th most played. Definitely try to ration, especially if I am playing full albums.
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by robryan 9y ago
I generally don’t let it influence my opinion on a piece of music but if I find something I like I will almost always go and check what kind of reviews it is getting online. I like to know if something is widely liked or just appeals to my
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by robryan 9y ago
eBay is probably closer than Amazon to that model. Amazon is more aiming for a consistent experience across their range and deemphasising the third parties you are buying some of that range from.
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At the current volatility how can businesses be expected to take on the risk of accepting bitcoin? None of their costs would be in bitcoin so they would have to be constantly moving their bitcoin to fiat currency and taking a risk on wild d
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by robryan 9y ago
The point is that first launch has no serious interest to warrant a real payload due to the higher risk of failure. If they weren't doing something fun like this they would just be loading it up with dead weight.
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> These are hard issues to solve with PHP, so hard that Facebook hand crafted a SPECIALIZED VIRTUAL FREAKIN’ MACHINE to deal with the performance issues inherent in PHP. Does that really seem like an “easy” solution? It is worth noting t
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Bad for employees but when I have been there in the past I was impressed with how quickly things would be delivered from Amazon in Mumbai.
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Thanks! I guess when the account was first created a bunch of the defaults were either wrong or not set yet.
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There would be a lot of jobs created in support an operation like this. Outside of charity what else are these people going to do with their money? If they are already 60 there isn't much point investing it for the future unless it is
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They would have got nowhere just being a slack clone going after the same businesses. In gaming there was a read pain point which they are addressing. Services like Ventrilo, Teamspeak etc required a lot of setup/ self hosting and were
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by robryan 9y ago
Why is someone as big as Patreon paying 2.9% + 35 cents? Even stripe should be able to do better than that?
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Patreon would only need to bill you once, not sure why they need to add processing fees to each pledge?
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by robryan 9y ago
I wonder if loyalty to Bunnings played a part at all in the failure of Masters. Of course a large part of it was price and selection. But it seemed though that it was mostly a me too type offering and unless there was a drastic reduction in
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah, a bunch of the API error messages are still in Japanese. Not that MWS in any region has ever been a pleasant developer experience.
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by robryan 9y ago
Even worse for a small package (200g), will cost you around $5 to your neighbour or about $3 from China. If we want to send the same package back via Auspost would expect at least $10.
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Electric cars might do better on that mileage rate?
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A lot of the venues seem to only exist for the poker machines, not that it would be a bad thing for them to go away. Where I previously lived we would occasionally go for meals at our local pub and the dining area was pretty much always qui
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by robryan 9y ago
Haven't seen this at all, even in the $100+ shampoos. Much more likely you will get a product that is past its shelf life with shampoos than a fake. Fakes are more likely in fragrances, and mid to high value but still high volume makeu
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by robryan 9y ago
Amazon is doing something about this. It has become very hard to get approved for "Topicals" now unless you are at least selling some brands where you have authorisation direct from the brands. As of the past few weeks Amazon are
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As I understand it California for example would claim you have a nexus once any stock at all has been moved into an Amazon warehouse in their state. In that case all you would need to see is that Amazon has moved some of your stock into CA
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Amazon provide reporting which allows you to work out which states you have stock in. It is by no means straightforward but certainly can be done.
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Lots of companies have live chat already, often there are certain things they won’t let you do on live chat because of the perception that it is less secure. Big companies seem even less like likely to have an email address where you can ge
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by robryan 9y ago
Probably about the SEO, when you google most beers the RateBeer page will rank pretty highly.
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At least popup blocking has an opt out if you need it.
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Retail arbitrage is already very popular on Amazon. It might not have much of a future though with Amazon heading towards not accepting those invoices when reviewing an account. I think the opportunity is probably too small and time consumi
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I think that most probably couldn’t afford not to leverage the Facebook source of traffic while their traditional print ad business was tanking.

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