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by robryan 11y ago
If something can't be resold they save money by not having to deal with the return you make. That kind of situation is a tough call, in theory they could simply not offer you anything, in practise they don't want to lose customers
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by robryan 11y ago
A lot of stuff is fine though and you will probably get it in similar time to Amazon standard shipping. It would be hard if they let you search by say < 3 business days, < 5 business days in the same way they let you search prime only
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by robryan 11y ago
I wonder if it makes any sense for Alibaba to buy Yahoo. Primarily buying back the shares but could also refocus yahoo more around ecommerce.
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The office environment in the picture looks terrible. Not only is it open plan but there seems to be barely enough room to setup a couple of screens and a laptop.
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I would be surprised if a well constructed 2 hour test wasn't able to give you enough information on their structure and approach. 4-6 hours probably results in the candidate filling in a lot of basic details to get something to actual
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by robryan 11y ago
Yeah I do wonder what you are getting out of not doing this. If they were to somehow cheat (get someone else to do it) this would be picked up very quickly on the job and waste everyone's time including their own.
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I am also much more happy with an answer along the lines of "it has no practical use currently but is interesting because of...." than no answer at all.
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This isn't the same though as handing out jobs to minirities that they wouldn't have got on merit though. This is attempting to encourage a larger group to get into the field in the first place.
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by robryan 11y ago
There is definitely a split, one of our newer accounts has a new interface but the older ones don't. Not sure if it is age or location causing it.
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Even by just taking control though they might be removing control from someone who wants to pump up the next quarters results.
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by robryan 11y ago
A large part of our business is built on product listing ads and Google shopping. Regular people have no problem clicking on ads, the ads actually usually provide a much clearer path to buying they product than organic results. In a lot of
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Until tech ecosystems outside the area are comparable there will probably always be waves of new people willing to give it a try to counter those moving somewhere more affordable.
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by robryan 11y ago
Probably because so much content has a specific deal for France but never did a deal for somewhere like Guiana. So I guess to get the best content you are better off in a bad market for top international TV and movies.
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Are their any good examples of large multinationals who have taken a stance similar to this?
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Comparatively in terms of size of the commitment you example would be more like an accountant telling Google that they could make big savings if they moved 10k employees across to a tax haven. A better comparison for what is happening would
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by robryan 11y ago
You would be surprised though how fast thing can arrive, assuming they are aiming for fast delivery. Amazon also allows you not to specify a shipping location, for things being forwarded into USPS the customer often won't even notice i
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by robryan 11y ago
Sending something from China to Australia is far cheaper than sending stuff a few suburbs across. Wouldn't surprised me if Australia started refusing to deliver to the door as well. Our local parcels are subsidizing the Chinese imports
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Assuming you benefit greatly from free trade. If everyone operated with completely free trade there would be big winners and big losers.
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Are there no other decent supermarkets around? I certainly wouldn't stand in a line for the supermarket on a regular basis no matter how good they are.
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by robryan 11y ago
Does this kind of thing convert? Feels like the sites trying to sign you up to "how to become successful" webinars. Wants with information without any value proposition and a fake analysis of my website.
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Maybe this is where they are heading? The heavy sales team route requires larger customers for it to be worth their time converting them to paid users. They might be looking to cut back on sales and try a more automated approach to convert
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by robryan 11y ago
Interesting, we have always had a system where we contribute to joint expenses in a joint account but otherwise keep our own accounts. It certainly avoids that situation in the article where the husband is resentful about an amount spent fr
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by robryan 11y ago
These numbers are usually overstating I find, likely a lot less people actually read the email.
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Might they have insurance that would cover your loan default but not the charge backs? Or the loans could be being resold from a 3rd party?
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Agreed, we offer Credit Card and Paypal and have close to half our customers using PayPal. In terms of the horror stories I think it depends a lot on your business. For someone like us sending relatively predictable large volume through in
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From my experience I'd be surprised if a legitimate business that had proper checks for fraud and delivered their service as advertised ended up getting a high enough rate of charge backs to lose their account.
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No problems in Australia getting a Mastercard which is actually a debit card.
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Book value, their assessment of what they could get from liquidating the stock and the costs involved might have made it not worth it.
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You are using opache (or apc)? Being CPU bound with that server and only 200 active users max seems strange. How many page views per day?
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by robryan 11y ago
It depends, if having a slack integration will benefit your business and theirs and they are willing to help fund it, seems like a win win. Of course you are correct that you would never want to bet your business on their platform.

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