Why TrueCar Business Model Does Not Work.
Why is TrueCar loosing millions of dollars (+/- $50 M/year) even though they have a very strong revenue (+/-$250 M/year) from car dealers who pay them a fee between $299 and $399 for each vehicle sold?…
The end of an Era; Goodbye to Best Price Guarantee Schemes
For decades the “Best Price Guarantee” has been the gimmick of choice for many merchants, especially hotel booking websites. It gives the ingenuous shopper a false sense of security by making them believe that buyin…
Pricing Rules for Amazon sellers
Every online store that sells on Amazon is aware of Amazon’s General Pricing Rule which states ” By our General Pricing Rule, you must always ensure that the item price and total price of an item you list on Amazon.com are at or below the item price and…
Amazon is rediscovering the past with “Name Your Own Price”
On Dec 9, 2014 Amazon Unveiled ” Make an Offer” to negotiate lower prices trying to catch up with what Priceline introduced decades ago, see one of the articles here. People can use this feature to haggle with online stores via emails through multiple…
How to end (or to make worse) the patent war between Rockstar Consortium and Google
In 2011, the Apple-led Rockstar Consortiumof based in Plano Texas, paid $4.5 billion ($2.6 billion of which came from Apple) to outbid a Google-backed group for a cache of Nortel patents for serving targeted advertisements based on search arguments and user…
Change in e-commerce and m-commerce is coming
The core concepts of e-commerce and m-commerce have evolved considerably in recent years, as they become a vital part of retail. Shopping is naturally a key driver for m-commerce but it had not been developing like other areas for a while. For starters, there…