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Subject: Hooray for Amazon.com!
Amazon.con (one of the greatest sites ever) has finally made a non-holiday profit. Its first ever!. I love Amazon. I sell there, and buy there. You can't go wrong. :)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100799,00.html
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
I have also bought and sold items on Amazon.com. I guess I am not that happy that an internet based trading and selling company has turned a profit. They are trying to monopolize internet purchases...they are connected with Target and Toys R Us to name a couple of retailers.
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
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I guess I am not that happy that an internet based trading and selling company has turned a profit.
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why not?
Amazon is just trying to do what every business on the planet is trying to do: Make Money.
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
Remember when the InterNet was free and you weren't pestered with spam, penis enlargers, and pop-ups? That was before greed stepped in and wanted to turn a profit.
Funny thing is, business didn't build, design, or pay for the InterNet. So I guess it stands to say that they're the original leechers. >:(
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
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Remember when the InterNet was free and you weren't pestered with spam, penis enlargers, and pop-ups? That was before greed stepped in and wanted to turn a profit.
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The internet was never "free" in that way; it may have been (relatively) spam-free for a while...
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Funny thing is, business didn't build, design, or pay for the InterNet. So I guess it stands to say that they're the original leechers. >:(
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Research academia may well have designed the internet, and started it off from its own budgets, but "business" has paid for nearly all the expansion and that you can get on-line from pretty much anywhere.
Everything costs money, even if it is only small amounts of power to keep the routers and servers going - that money has to come from somewhere.
It ain't all greed - the simple desire to make a living for yourself and support your family is enough.
Returning to the original theme: amazon making a profit - I'm kind of glad they can, because if the single most popular retailer on the net with a business model tailored to supplying the sort of goods most appropriate for this kind of ordering can't make a profit, then you'd be kissing all internet retail goodbye. The only people with real cause for concern will be the small bookshops who simply can't compete...
Phil
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
Amazon is not just about buying and selling books. Like I said before if you want to purchase items at Toys R Us, Babies R Us, Marshall Fields, or Office Depot you are buying it from that store but Amazon is making a profit from an individual retailers item just by greedily attaching themselves to the store. Enough people out there would purchase toys, etc. directly from the store without wanting to give Amazon a piece of the stores profit. On the plus side I used to run a small new & used textbook store and we were able to list our books on Amazon until our name got out there. The bad thing about that was the amount of money that Amazon earned from our sale.
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
Quoting:On the plus side I used to run a small new & used textbook store and we were able to list our books on Amazon until our name got out there. The bad thing about that was the amount of money that Amazon earned from our sale.
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So its OK for your business to profit off of Amazon and to contribute to Amazon's profit margin, but not ok for Toys R Us and the other stores to do so also?
You just admitted you yourself contributed to Amazon's treasury buy using them to sell books, and now your calling them greedy because they finally did what they are desinged to do, which is make money?
Am I missing something here ???
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
no 80's rocked your not missing anything. In order to compete and get name recognition most of our books were sold for a few dollars. Amazon takes a cut from you just to list your items regardless if you sell any. Then your item sells and amazon takes another piece of the pie. Then you pay for shipping and handling. Therefore, there were alot of times that we did not make money but Amazon did. I don't have a problem with them making money...that is how our book business got started. But to be so happy that they are making such a huge profit is silly. Maybe you make your living as an Amazon shareholder so the profit is good for you.
Subject: Re: Hooray for Amazon.com!
Lets remember that Amazon.com is not just a single entity enjoying the fruits of profit. It is a company the employs roughly 80,000 workers. In addition to salary here is a list of additional benefits most recieve. I doubt many little "mom and pop" bookstores have ever offered them, even before Amazon came into existance.
Stock options
401(k) savings plan
Vacation time
Flexible spending account
Personal days
Medical plan
Dental plan
Vision plan
Short- and long-term disability
Domestic partner coverage
Relocation assistance--click here for relocation information
Several employee discount programs
Employee assistance program