Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
Originally Posted By: user52165
Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
Not sure, but personally I wouldn't be a part of any scheme designed to put the local (especially the local!) and national auto wreckers out of business. So I will not be shopping used auto parts on Amazon.
It will actually help their business. ABC Auto Salvage pulls the part and uses the well developed marketing and delivery system of Amazon to sell their parts everywhere. XYZ Auto Salvage doesn't see the future and doesn't do as well. Just like any other competitive venture.
Amazon will help a local business? Are we talking the same Amazon here? The one that has Wal-Mart running for cover, closing stores and leaving communities with no bricks-and-mortar stores (killed by the Wal-Mart that opened 15 years ago) and no means of retail whatsoever (when Wal-Mart closes their local store this year, killed by Amazon)?
It's hard to stop the exodus of American jobs when the locals are part of the problem. Go ahead, buy your used auto parts on Amazon. I can't stop you. And good luck to your children, by the way.
The mom and pop businesses have zero access to WALMART. Your not getting on their slelves unless you have the scale to supply 1000's of stores. And your gona have to make it in China to hit walmart's price points.
But the mom and pop's CAN sell on Amazon right along side the big players.
Amazon gives them infrastructure to sell on the international market.
Car-part.com helped bring all those back country whole-in-the-wall yards on to the internet. It brought semi-local people to their front door.
Now Amazon does the same thing but allows them to SELL and ship to the whole world. Not just car-part.com users who are in driving distance.
Originally Posted By: user52165
Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
Not sure, but personally I wouldn't be a part of any scheme designed to put the local (especially the local!) and national auto wreckers out of business. So I will not be shopping used auto parts on Amazon.
It will actually help their business. ABC Auto Salvage pulls the part and uses the well developed marketing and delivery system of Amazon to sell their parts everywhere. XYZ Auto Salvage doesn't see the future and doesn't do as well. Just like any other competitive venture.
Amazon will help a local business? Are we talking the same Amazon here? The one that has Wal-Mart running for cover, closing stores and leaving communities with no bricks-and-mortar stores (killed by the Wal-Mart that opened 15 years ago) and no means of retail whatsoever (when Wal-Mart closes their local store this year, killed by Amazon)?
It's hard to stop the exodus of American jobs when the locals are part of the problem. Go ahead, buy your used auto parts on Amazon. I can't stop you. And good luck to your children, by the way.
The mom and pop businesses have zero access to WALMART. Your not getting on their slelves unless you have the scale to supply 1000's of stores. And your gona have to make it in China to hit walmart's price points.
But the mom and pop's CAN sell on Amazon right along side the big players.
Amazon gives them infrastructure to sell on the international market.
Car-part.com helped bring all those back country whole-in-the-wall yards on to the internet. It brought semi-local people to their front door.
Now Amazon does the same thing but allows them to SELL and ship to the whole world. Not just car-part.com users who are in driving distance.