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Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom

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Re: Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom

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Thanks...how does one do that with paywalled articles. I've tried to get archive.is to do this in the past but it just captures the paywalled article summary/

For most of them, you just have to google the article's title and click the link from there.

I did try that, even in incognito mode, but still hit the paywall.

Re: Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom

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This is a losing proposition. I am very familiar with the space (I used to manage one of the largest categories at Amazon), and there is a lot of blind faith in Jet. While I do think another player can co-exist in the domestic e-commerce space, winning on price is going to be a very tough battle for a variety of reasons (Amazon can strong arm vendors giving preferential pricing elsewhere), especially if it requires a $50 membership fee. IMO, ways to beat Amazon would need to focus on the searching/browsability of items, focusing on certain categories where Amazon has less direct relationships, etc., and I'm not yet convinced that Jet is focused enough to do that.

Re: Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom

#23
This is a great time to shop on jet.com. They are absorbing all of the costs!! If you really want to buy something cheaply you should do it now, before it goes under.

This is a great example of trying to get too big too fast without even testing the business model.

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