This aint good, they were often the cheapest bookstore, the only one with halfway sensible shipping costs for a lot of the world, and often the widest selection. If anywhere has the obscure anatomy book I needed, it would be book depository.
We used to have actual decent competition for Amazon. So naturally, they, and their fellow idiots (see: the guy who ran The CoOp into the ground) had to either buy it, or destroy it, leaving us with fuck-all choice…
If ever there was an evil company, it’s Amazon. And everything Bezos touches.
But everyone knows that. However as long as he owns WaPo et al, ain’t nothing gonna change… 😔
So naturally, they, and their fellow idiots (see: the guy who ran The CoOp into the ground) had to either buy it, or destroy it, leaving us with fuck-all choice…
Absolute cock heads, how that monopoly failed I have no idea, big captive audience, easy money, like that old bookstore here Wooldridge's. If you can't make money selling to every damn school student their entire catalogue, there is a problem.
From memory he defrauded them some very large amount of money, while running the Aus Geo brand into the ground (by buying it, and then attempting a failed rebrand) in the process...
White collar crime/insider trading, if you will.
But because of the structure of that "company", I don't think he was ever charged with anything...
Remember Dick Smith Electronics..? Like that, but somehow worse, because I believe this was one person...
They pulled a Walmart. Sell at a loss (you're huge can can absorb it), gobble up market share, put the competitors out of business, now you're the only game in town.
That is something no one is talking about. For years, Amazon was just about the cheapest for books; 30-50% off cover price was routine.
I was ordering some novels recently, and they were all cover price- there would be no reason to bother ordering from Amazon at that point, except the only bookstore left in town is Barnes & Noble and they didn't have the books I wanted on the shelf.
This aint good, they were often the cheapest bookstore, the only one with halfway sensible shipping costs for a lot of the world, and often the widest selection. If anywhere has the obscure anatomy book I needed, it would be book depository.
Fuck amazon.
Same, but for a different subject area.
You’re Aussie too, innit?
We are so fucked, lol…
We used to have actual decent competition for Amazon. So naturally, they, and their fellow idiots (see: the guy who ran The CoOp into the ground) had to either buy it, or destroy it, leaving us with fuck-all choice…
If ever there was an evil company, it’s Amazon. And everything Bezos touches.
But everyone knows that. However as long as he owns WaPo et al, ain’t nothing gonna change… 😔
too right mate, bloody oath I am.
Yeah from over west.
Absolute cock heads, how that monopoly failed I have no idea, big captive audience, easy money, like that old bookstore here Wooldridge's. If you can't make money selling to every damn school student their entire catalogue, there is a problem.
Oh I think it was actually deliberate...
From memory he defrauded them some very large amount of money, while running the Aus Geo brand into the ground (by buying it, and then attempting a failed rebrand) in the process...
White collar crime/insider trading, if you will.
But because of the structure of that "company", I don't think he was ever charged with anything...
Remember Dick Smith Electronics..? Like that, but somehow worse, because I believe this was one person...
Fucking crazy how this keeps happening, though!
C'est ça:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/not-a-great-look-coop-bookshop-administrators-reach-deal-over-500000-worth-of-hats-from-ceos-company/news-story/5c133c3143fa604ac0df0386244b1ad6
"Hats". Somehow that is even more unreasonable and pathetic than I realised, SMH...
Fucking hate "business people" that do shit like this. And of course they get away with it, generally, too...
They pulled a Walmart. Sell at a loss (you're huge can can absorb it), gobble up market share, put the competitors out of business, now you're the only game in town.
That is something no one is talking about. For years, Amazon was just about the cheapest for books; 30-50% off cover price was routine.
I was ordering some novels recently, and they were all cover price- there would be no reason to bother ordering from Amazon at that point, except the only bookstore left in town is Barnes & Noble and they didn't have the books I wanted on the shelf.