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With the fall semester around the corner, eBay has launched a mobile app for its discount site Half.com, which scans barcodes to locate the best deals on textbooks and other back-to-school products. According to CNET News, users snap a picture of a barcode (say, that expensive Biology 101 textbook), and the free iPhone app scans it using RedLaser technology, then trolling Half.com's inventory for the best prices on new and used items. If you find a better price on the site than at your college bookstore (and you likely will), you can even purchase the product within the app, and share the deal with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
It's no mistake that this app was launched right as kids are headed back-to-school, since Half.com sells truckloads of textbooks. eBay clearly knows how important mobile shopping is to the future of its business, too. According to Tech Crunch, the company is on pace to sell about $1.5 billion worth of goods via mobile phones this year alone. Looks like the future is, uh, bright. [From: CNET News and Tech Crunch]
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Subscribe to commentsformsetAug 18th 2010 6:50PM
What possible good is RedLaser to eBay? Due to eBay’s lack of control over prices on eBay and their constant fee increases, prices on eBay are unlikely to be that attractive to consumers. And, merchants surely aren’t going to direct buyers to eBay when they can direct them to their own sites, or elsewhere, and avoid eBay’s ever higher and higher profit-sucking fees.
Why then would anyone (even eBay) want to promote a technology that is probably going to direct buyers away from their own principal site? Then, we have to assume that this most unscrupulous organization, eBay that is, won’t apply a “Best Match” algorithm to favor themselves, don’t we?
Sounds like another “Skype” purchase to me. Oh, sorry, I forgot, PayPal is going to be eBay’s major growth area in the future. Oh yeah, dream on …
Then, who knows, maybe eBay is going to use some of their overseas stash of cash to fill those rumoured eBay warehouses with Chinese manufactures and start selling their own inventory? If so, methinks the Chief Headless Turkey may have, once again, found another way to continue converting all those past-laid golden eggs to brass …
So what is going on? I think we are observing the most stupid, cruel and inhumane, slow slaughtering of probably the most successful commercial golden-egg laying goose of modern times. Clearly, headless turkeys harbor a great resentment towards such gifted geese …
eBay’s many problems are hardly worth discussing any more. Clearly, the headless turkeys have taken over the eBay farmyard and since the sociopath John Donahoe—whose arrogance is only outweighed by his incompetence—has been given a key to the executive wash room, eBay has, every quarter, relatively speaking, been flushed further and further down the toilet.
eBay’s new US data center, since the dumping of store items into core (aka the eBay April Fools Day Data Centre Massacre), has apparently been effectively crippled, or if it is functioning as planned, it’s a very strange plan. It would appear that, in the US at least, the eBay whale is high and dry on a beach somewhere, has died, and is now stinking.
It has been inferred by a supposedly astute investment advisor that a monkey could run such an organization. My only question then is, how much longer will it be before the eBay Board realizes that they should at least find a monkey that is not already brain dead?
In the meantime, for anyone seriously interested in the incompetence and utter deviousness of eBay’s executive management generally, and in particular eBay’s demonstrable criminal facilitation of the rampant shill bidding fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting buyers by a great many unscrupulous professional sellers on nominal-start auctions, an introduction thereto (along with some Pay-Pal horror stories thrown in for good measure) can be found at
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23013
Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #4
This latest study demonstrates eBay’s utter desperation for revenue and, once again, very effectively, eBay’s effective aiding and abetting of this criminal activity, at
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23540
eBay/PayPal/Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.