In a message dated 12/25/2004 12:20:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A question: most of your real world examples seem to show that as middlemen like Amazon, Google and Ebay get ever better, the total volume and turnover of mechandise accelerates. How do you get that the middleman is being cut-out? ~Maru Ah. a sales corporation only acts as a method. Example. The old geezer down the road drops dead. The son comes in to clean the house out before it's sold. If he lots out the stuff to an estate sale company, the estate sale company is the middleman. If the son sell it all on eBay, eBay only acts as a vehicle for the sale. Nobody buys it at one price to later sell it at a higher price. That type of middleman. Buy low; sell high. eBay makes money even if it isn't sold. Now that digital cameras are almost cheap enough to become a prize in a cereal box, when today's middle-agers turn into old geezers, most are going to sell it off themselves before the sons can get hold of it. You even prove the argument. The acceleration of turn around means there'll be less purchasing for resale--as a profession. As an occupation. As a main source of income. As a middleman. William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
