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>These avg Joe will not have 'Delhivery accounts' to ship. EBay is for infrequent non traditional online sellers. Did you ever try? A lot of web shops are being run in India by average Joe now, sometimes take a look at Google s
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>Ebay doesn't handle this well in the US either. I would love to use ebay as a junkyard metasearch engine. But you can find people who scavenge junkyards and are listed as sellers on eBay who do sell used bench grinder (maybe after
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Also one key thing is that Flipkart only saw eBay as a threat that could be bought by competition and eBay was a known brand and nearly every online person in India knew about it. Just to remove this possibility of being used as a weapon in
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Yeaa Amazon here is best in small towns of India. In my town they've bought a warehouse at Industrial area and their trucks arrive before 7am. I place order before 2pm and my orders arrive at my desk next day before 11am, arrives in my
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> For eBay kind of model where the seller has to pack and ship items themselves, it would be a nightmare. The govt postal service is highly inefficient and the private players are not organized for door to door logistics. Amazon doesn&#x
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Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce VC funded giant like Amazon, it's nearly same just that it operates only in india. Flipkart has a history of buying and shutting down businesses.
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Yes, I think it's simply because those who have ability to make it happen have never needed anything to buy used (considering all startups founders in India are from software field and rich enough to buy everything new or they live in
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We can say startups didn't bother with it because eBay India was already operating in market before startup culture was even here in India. Back in time eBay was operating in Indian market and eBay was successful as the payment service
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It's absolutely shocking India where startup competition is huge has no eBay. Basically there's no way to buy anything in secondary market, yes OLX or Quikr etc... exist but they are limited to only people around you (in same city
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Barbarian is simply someone who does not (some might say, they don't because they simply cannot) verbally articulate deep thoughts and views on a topic. It does not mean such people do not posses intelligence for this, it's just a
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I thought china was rich enough and had huge internal demand for its produced goods. But it's banning cryptocurrency to save its economy? Doesn't seem like their economy is robust enough now.
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I live outside of US, precisely India and see many videos of Ring on YouTube which are marketed as avoided huge loss because of ring Funny thing caught by ring At some point even I wanted to install ring then I realized I live in India.
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Since I am working from home, half day I am writing code, other half day I am doing machining on mill and lathes. My performance on code related work has shot up, you need an escape to increase your productivity. Sitting at a desk all day w
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I just ask one question: Who do you think politicians have their dinner with? Is it a middle class tax paying person or some rich businessmen friends? Who will get his sympathy? Extrapolate from there.
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This is if you are a startup founder, it makes sense to accept investment, this brings the tax dodging practises which those people already know about and now it's available to you too
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My theory is FANGS pay more because it's a casino like setup. Yes, their employees are making lot of money but where her money ends up going? A large part of that ends up paying rent in a region where there are many others making simil
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By doing this we are conditioning kids to not have privacy, later when they grow up - they'll come to accept lack of privacy because it's something they grew up with, first it was their parents spying on them, now it's tech c
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But your data doesn't account whether women wanted this arrangement or not, the way things are now clearly demonstrates women wanted greater freedom even if they've to leave their home and kids, so this what it is happening.
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How do you even go into debt with something like TeamViewer.
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Then why not start a company if the grass is sooo much greener on other side. It's true you can claim a lot as expense and register zero profits but only when you really don't have money. People forget, Amazon gets its money from
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They already do. And anyone selling through any platform where they've all data let it be supermarket chain or e-commerce platform, should understand the risk that their data can be used to compete with them if you realize risk is not
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Amazon is far from only being software atleast in India. They've such a volume here in India that since Amazon has got here, traditional LTL logistics soared in price wayyy higher Amazon has completely revolutionised logistics here in
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If we vaccinate everyone, aren't we selecting for the virus mutations in which the vaccine doesn't work, can we possibly make virus more advance this way?
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During first wave, many people would have savings. After that they expected recovery but now stuck in 2nd wave. Price of things that people want have shot up considerably while for most income source has dried up.
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Psychologically average Indian young person is more unhappy and unstatisfied than ever, this is both because of lack of new opportunities and employment and now Indians are able to see on YouTube and compare living standards to people in fo
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Some people don't only look at market cap, they look at trade volume which again can be faked using wash trading.
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A lot of people don't know how to use engine braking, I guess teaching them that is going to significantly increased your brake pad life on existing vehicles in circulation. Remember there are 3 brakes in your car, handbrake, foot brak
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Poors are screwed doesn't matter if it's EU, UK or US or even Africa. Only the magnitude of screwed differs. I've come up with an idea that we should do a swap, where a rich person is allowed to be rich for 2 years then a poo
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Offtopic: as someone from India, I've seen a lot of American farms and farmers on YouTube but I don't see British farmers on YouTube, why is that?
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I've never experienced this "disgust" for anything in life. Is it possible in some people it's absent?
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