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Bartz getting fired has NOTHING to do with Yahoo! Store, folks...

I wish retailers would chill the ____ out. Bartz getting fired has NOTHING to do with us.
Maybe a new company head will take the VERY, VERY  profitable Y!SB and spin it off or sell it off, but I've given up on worrying about things that haven't happened yet. I don't get a vote. I'm not losing sleep over that. 
Sigh... Yahoo! Store is an online store builder and web host that HAPPENS to be owned by the folks in Sunnyvale. The platform has NOTHING to do with the traffic from Y!
Kinda like Google checkout has nothing to do with organic Google traffic. Or having PayPal gives you NO eBay boost / traffic.
WIth Amazon's & Ebay you pay ~5-15% revenue share in exchange for getting SOME access to THEIR customers, but at the end of the day, you're share-cropping. You don't own the "land" you farm, and the customers belong to the platform.
That being said, there is some money to be made on Amazon and on eBay if you have the margin, but with FEEDS from your store, NOT with their crappy e-commerce offerings (in my opinion).
If someone is looking for a more stable, more robust platform, they need to look at what the Fortune 100 folks are using and deploying that monster starts with seven figures. 
Sorry for the rant.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011 in Yahoo Store Things |

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Luis Hernandez, Jr.

EXACTLY!

Now, if Amazon, Google or Monsoon Commerce, for example, would want to purchase Y!Store, I would not be against that idea. Maybe they would finally bring it into the 21st century! :)

Posted by: Luis Hernandez, Jr. | Thursday, September 08, 2011 at 06:23 AM

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