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Finally! If Jet.com doesn't charge amazon style fees this means I can mark my products down by 25-50% ! and still make the same profit as I do on Amazon. Amazon fees are massive even without the penny pricing snag. Here's mine: http://i3.minus.com/i0tJucuLy5zPB.jpg When Jet opens up to small sellers I'll be the first in line. Hopefully consumers will notice the big price differences and buy a membership.
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It'd be great if they could blog about how F# performs and the benefits of using it. e.g. Fewer bugs, less code... How are things working in practice.
Hey, I'm Jet's VP Engineering. We'll definitely be blogging about F# and some of the other tech behind Jet in the very near future!
They'll still lose. Amazon has Prime. They have the fastest shipping in the world. Fuck, they practically invented Just-In-Time warehouses. Amazon is diverse too; they have one of the largest clouds in the world. People know about Amazon. Amazon has tons of reviews on products too, so I know if a product is shitty or not. I order online like 3 or 4 times a year, I'm not going to pay $50 to shave a few percentage poin…
If you buy online only 3 or 4 times a year why do you pay for prime? You seem to already pay $95/year to shave a few percentage points off your bill.
In a line of curl and about ten minutes, I went from ~130,000 to #2 (proof: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/553651179779940352). Anyone with an elementary knowledge of the Chrome web inspector and bash could do the same.
This could be halfway patched by only counting verified accounts. ie: send a verification email to everyone who signs up, and only count them if they click the link. It could still be "hacked," but it would be more tedious and require sufficiently more resources. If you're thinking about doing something like this for your startup launch, please at least verify email addresses.
A full solution would have to depend on something that could verify that an account has one-and-only-one real person behind it. Perhaps linking a credit card, making a purchase, or shipping to a unique address.
I'm really interested in jet as a service, and very excited for the launch, but I'd be incredibly disappointed if my ~5k fake entries aren't discovered before the end of this competition.
As an aside: this website has really confusing UX:
1. Why does practically everything on the page flip over if I hover for ~1000ms? Things should either flip over immediately on mouse hover (which still isn't fantastic - what do you do on mobile?), or after a button press.
2. "Click to copy your unique link" doesn't work (Retina MBP OS X 10.10 Chrome 39.0.2171.95 64-bit), and only shows a pointer cursor the first time you hover over it.
3. "Click here to check your Jet Insider rank" in the welcome email doesn't have an href attribute, so the link doesn't work.
These "share your link to move up in line" things are a fun mechanic, and seem to work well for virality, but the way they're currently being implemented is embarrassingly easy to gamify. In a line of curl and about ten minutes, I went from ~130,000 to #2 (proof: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/553651179779940352 ). Anyone with an elementary knowledge of the Chrome web inspector and bash could do the same. This cou…
agree about the ui thought....flash? 1990's much?
These "share your link to move up in line" things are a fun mechanic, and seem to work well for virality, but the way they're currently being implemented is embarrassingly easy to gamify. In a line of curl and about ten minutes, I went from ~130,000 to #2 (proof: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/553651179779940352 ). Anyone with an elementary knowledge of the Chrome web inspector and bash could do the same. This cou…
like you say, email verification can be hacked just as easily. best answer is to use some authenticated id like facebook/twitter. regardless, why would someone bother....their terms have all sorts of stuff about securits laws, signing consulting agreements with jet etc...they must be auditing anyone in the running for stock. agree about the ui thought....flash? 1990's much?
Re flash: unfortunately that's the state of the art for cross platform copying to the clipboard. Their implementation just seems broken.