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Amazon vs. Jet.com

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Re: Amazon vs. Jet.com

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Post by forgotten »

Lore and Baharara are quite a team. When they were Diapers.com they went down kicking and biting against Amazon. I hope a book gets written about these guys, they are incredibly inspiring.

Re: Amazon vs. Jet.com

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Post by kin »

At first it sounded like a better version of online Costco, which sounds awesome since Costco's selection is limited. But after reading how it really works I'm not so sure this will be that competitive vs. Amazon. There's a dependency on other merchants it sounds like?

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Post by dsugarman »

kin wrote: post #5

At first it sounded like a better version of online Costco, which sounds awesome since Costco's selection is limited. But after reading how it really works I'm not so sure this will be that competitive vs. Amazon. There's a dependency on other merchants it sounds like?

over 40% of Amazon sales are from their 3rd party marketplace which relies on third party merchants. If those merchants were allowed to sell without paying Amazon 15% commissions and without competing directly with Amazon's first party sales, you would imagine they could become even more competitive on price. there is no reason Jet will not be consistently lower than Amazon on price especially since they take on no infrastructure costs.

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Post by freshhawk »

Once I sign up, some of the resources return 403 (IP is blocked by geoblocker ...). Went through a US proxy and can see what it's supposed to look like. The funny part is that first message that is supposed to say "Thanks! You're Jet Insider No. XXX,XXXX Share to move up the ranks" instead says:

Thanks!

You're Jet Insider

No."

I could not figure out what the hell that was supposed to mean.

I guess this is just some launch last minute scrambling or something? Might not have been the best choice, anyone outside the US or wherever is being blocked has the first impression "Ah, they are going to take on Amazon and can't get a signup flow to work ... right".

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