no motorcycles? :(
Amazon Vehicles
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#32I was just wondering yesterday, if there is a service out there, which would let me see the type and model of cars which are popular, and most-bought? I assume there must be such a dataset available somewhere through government sources? Or perhaps not. Such a data could be a valuable service based on crowd's wisdom. Amazon here seems to provide public comments, which is generally available via Google.
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#33How do they already have so many reviews and content for this? Private Beta? Pulled from other sources?
I viewed some of the reviews. They appear to be spammers or testers. For example, Five Stars By wangchengxuan on July 21, 2016 lalala
The reviews for the car I looked at (Honda Fit 2008) all looked legit.
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#34Boy, good thing Amazon does not need to ship them with USPS. "Pime Drivers" will drive them to your door steps.
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#35Soon we'll rent cars, like we rent books. :)
Many folks do just that. It's called "leasing". ;-)
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#36I wonder if once Tesla fights back all the local monopoly regulation around dealerships, this will naturally transition to an online car dealership. They'll have to figure out test drives though.
easy. just crowdsource the test drives.
Car owners volunteer their cars for test drives and get a kickback if the customer purchases that model? Essentially crowd sourced micro-commissions, that's brilliant.
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#37Now, if they delivered one of these via Prime ...
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Redfin would do this first. Since they have a fair number of listings, I'm waiting for them to offer something where the buyer gets a substantial discount for buying it directly from the Redfin agent, without using a buyer's agent. Next step would be to sell listings exclusively through Redfin and not through the MLS, though this would be riskier.
I think this was the original business plan of Zillow & Trulia - they wanted people to list without the help of agents. It never really became successful enough so they sold out. I don't understand how agents can charge 6% in America when they charge 1 or 1.5% in the UK.
There are a few places that charge 1% up here in Canada, but they are more the exception than the rule. It's still insane, and given how little effort some realtors put in, it's quite shameful. Even giving someone $3,000 (1% of a $300,000 house) seems like a huge amount of money for the little amount of work they do.
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#39How do I buy one? I don't see an "add to cart" button anywhere.
From my understanding, Amazon Vehicles isn't (as yet) about buying cars, but about selling you the parts and accessories for the vehicles that you do own. Here's their 'Garage' page:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-garage/
From the surrounding comments, it seems they do something similar with home appliances and photography equipment.
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#40Now, if they delivered one of these via Prime ...
In the not-too-distant future: "Amazon now largest car dealer in the US, and fleets of Amazonian drones flying cars across the country are now a common sight. Fatalities from dropped cars are down 25% on the previous quarter. More news at 11".