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Comment on Bricks and mortar issue: further moves from eBay by guy clapperton

guy clapperton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:10:14 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Phil. But are you saying that a law that could undermine a business as substantial as, say, eBay (the owner of this blog) or Amazon is well formulated?

Comment on Bricks and mortar issue: further moves from eBay by phil

phil — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:26:27 +0000

Its about time that etailers took the responsability for their Pimping of bricks and mortar retailers and the addition of this clause may being a reality check to this arrogant sector who think they are the new gods of retail without accountabilty to the countries they trade in and from

Comment on Bricks and mortar issue: further moves from eBay by phil

phil — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:25:32 +0000

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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:10:52 +0000

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Comment on Brands turn on e-Tailers by Online sales to bust recession | Campaign for Consumer Choice

Online sales to bust recession | Campaign for Consumer Choice — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:58 +0000

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Price fixing: where's the redress? | Campaign for Consumer Choice — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:44 +0000

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Comment on Brands turn on e-Tailers by David Brackin

David Brackin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:18 +0000

The only groups who could possibly want this are those with a vested interest in reducing competition.

Whilst the exact formulation of the law is yet to be seen, it seems virtually impossible to identify and enforce this legally. Businesses aren’t currently required to split out sales between online and bricks and mortar channels, and the definition is in any case blurred. If you order online and pick-up from my store, where is that counted?

And what is a “pure play” online business? Amazon has a building. A really big one.

So the enforcement of this is virtually impossible (I can’t imagine any prosecutions!) except it will allow suppliers an excuse to restrict supply. Enforcement will be by trade restriction — and whilst the entrepreneurs will incur some cost from that, the biggest cost will be borne by the consumers who would shop with them.

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Comment on Mobile contracts draw fire by James Murphy

James Murphy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:49 +0000

In an ideal world we’d never have had subsidised handsets and we’d therefore not be in this mess… except that (and I hate to admit this) we wouldn’t have had the drive to develop new phones that has produced the remarkable devices we can carry around.

That said, what we want (broadly speaking) is a) contracts without phones (ideally to be the only kind there are) and b) phones sold on monthly terms (over 12 or 18 or 24 months). The two obvious advantages being that a) we get out of the whole termination fee nonsense and b) that people might grasp just how much their phones are worth…

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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:22:59 +0000

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