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Your amazon overlords thank you

manimal

manimal

Lifer
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t..._bezos_went_thermonuclear_on_diapers_com.html


Amazon shows its colors.

I remember that year. Our Triplets were one and I was spending close to 1000 a month on diapers and prices went CRAZY low. We loved diapers.com. Amazon wasnt gonna have that...


How long till there are only a handful of corporations left running things?


In two separate threads today we had people cheering the demise of brick and mortar chains playing right into the narrative big business keeps feeding.


Less choices yay? Ya I think not.
 
Rakehellion said:
Cliffs?
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Diapers.com starts to gain market share as a online diaper supplier
Amazon sends VP to tell them Amazon'll be getting into the diaper business and that they should sell
Amazon sets their price bot to undercut diapers.com
Diapers.com can't take it, and enters talks to sell to Walmart or Amazon
Amazon, having already lost 100million in the price war, tells them they'll drive diaper prices to 0 if they sell to WalMart.

Having been successfully bullied, diapers.com sells to Amazon.
 
w00t. Consumers win with rock bottom prices and a bunch of fat cat CEOs go bankrupt and their kids can no longer afford Ferrari's.

What's the problem here?
 
amdhunter said:
w00t. Consumers win with rock bottom prices and a bunch of fat cat CEOs go bankrupt and their kids can no longer afford Ferrari's.

What's the problem here?
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Consumers win with rock bottom prices briefly until the competition disappears and prices can be raised unopposed.
 
Don't worry, datamining won't hurt anyone.
It's all totally benign.


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manimal said:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t..._bezos_went_thermonuclear_on_diapers_com.html


Amazon shows its colors.

I remember that year. Our Triplets were one and I was spending close to 1000 a month on diapers and prices went CRAZY low. We loved diapers.com. Amazon wasnt gonna have that...


How long till there are only a handful of corporations left running things?


In two separate threads today we had people cheering the demise of brick and mortar chains playing right into the narrative big business keeps feeding.


Less choices yay? Ya I think not.
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You speak as though this is some sort of future scenario.

People tend to have surprisingly low prices when it comes to teasing out corrupt or unethical behavior. With plenty of companies and individuals out there commanding billions of dollars in wealth, buying out politicians wholesale hardly registers as an expense.




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GagHalfrunt said:
Consumers win with rock bottom prices briefly until the competition disappears and prices can be raised unopposed.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon's (and Walmart's) entire business model revolves around low prices. Mainly because they're a distributor, not a manufacturer.
 
Meanwhile Jessica Alba's a partner in a company selling "eco-friendly" diapers made in China and Mexico and yet charging a premium. Information is power. Boycott both Walmart and Alba.

At one point, Quidsi executives took what they knew about shipping rates, factored in Procter & Gamble’s (PG) wholesale prices, and calculated that Amazon was on track to lose $100 million over three months in the diaper category alone.
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Where is that prick Ben Edelman when you need him? He's too busy misapplying Mass law to threaten Chinese restaurants over $4.
 
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At one point, Quidsi executives took what they knew about shipping rates, factored in Procter & Gamble’s (PG) wholesale prices, and calculated that Amazon was on track to lose $100 million over three months in the diaper category alone.
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Wow.
 
I've already declared our kids are going to be using the reusable type. Fuck that 1000$ a month bullshit. It's going to be one shitty situation, but damn will it save a ton of money in the long haul. I can pass them on to the next kids as well.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
I've already declared our kids are going to be using the reusable type. Fuck that 1000$ a month bullshit. It's going to be one shitty situation, but damn will it save a ton of money in the long haul. I can pass them on to the next kids as well.
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Unless you are octomom and have a litter of 8+ kids diapers aren't going to run you $1000 a month. Maybe $50-$60 per kid initially and it tapers off from there.

Amazon subscribe and save are about as cheap as you can get for name brand diapers.
 
vi edit said:
Unless you are octomom and have a litter of 8+ kids diapers aren't going to run you $1000 a month. Maybe $50-$60 per kid initially and it tapers off from there.

Amazon subscribe and save are about as cheap as you can get for name brand diapers.
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What about vs. Costco? either way sounds like a decent sum. I would be willing to bet it's more than 50/month as well. That sounds waaay too cheap.
 
Man what a croc, $1000 on diapers? No way I would ever spend that. if I ever had kids, no diapers. You gotta learn how use the toilet like everyone else. No free rides. High time babies learned to take some personal responsibility. :colbert:
 
amdhunter said:
w00t. Consumers win with rock bottom prices and a bunch of fat cat CEOs go bankrupt and their kids can no longer afford Ferrari's.

What's the problem here?
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LOL consumers? The only people who can't afford diapers are people who have no business having children: Welfare recipients. And the only thing they consume besides drugs are your tax dollars.
You could cut out the middleman and just direct deposit your salary to Amazon.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
I've already declared our kids are going to be using the reusable type. Fuck that 1000$ a month bullshit. It's going to be one shitty situation, but damn will it save a ton of money in the long haul. I can pass them on to the next kids as well.
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lol ... clueless as usual.
 
Jaepheth said:
Diapers.com starts to gain market share as a online diaper supplier
Amazon sends VP to tell them Amazon'll be getting into the diaper business and that they should sell
Amazon sets their price bot to undercut diapers.com
Diapers.com can't take it, and enters talks to sell to Walmart or Amazon
Amazon, having already lost 100million in the price war, tells them they'll drive diaper prices to 0 if they sell to WalMart.

Having been successfully bullied, diapers.com sells to Amazon.
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For $545 million dollars. Poor diapers.com
 
Sonikku said:
Man what a croc, $1000 on diapers? No way I would ever spend that. if I ever had kids, no diapers. You gotta learn how use the toilet like everyone else. No free rides. High time babies learned to take some personal responsibility. :colbert:
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No child left behind.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
What about vs. Costco? either way sounds like a decent sum. I would be willing to bet it's more than 50/month as well. That sounds waaay too cheap.
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Price of a box of diapers pretty much stays the same, it's just the number of diapers in it that goes down as the sizes goes up. Amazon sells the 216 count newborn swaddlers for around $40 shipped under subscribe and save.

First couple weeks are the worst when they do nothing but piss and shit every hour. Expect to go through a diaper about every 90 minutes or less the first couple weeks. So a box about every 2 weeks. Of course the first couple days are in the hospital, plus they send you home with a bunch, and if you have any friends/family they'll give you a couple boxes too as shower gifts. So you really aren't buying a ton that first month even though you are using them.

Into the 2nd month and it's more like 10 through the day and another one overnight if they pee through them. My kids were sleeping through the night by the 2nd month. At this point you are down to a box about 3 weeks. And that sticks about the same, at least in my experience as kids get older they go longer between changes and use less.
 
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