Amazon & Ebay - 海外購物

當初ebay在收購paypal之前，paypal其實只是一間小公司，甚至bidpay
都還比paypal有規模許多，以消費者理的立場，當然是以方便與安全為主，
paypal就做到這點，雖然老是要冒著被鎖帳號的缺點，但是他就不像bidpay
，使用上方便許多（我用過幾次bidpay，付個幾塊錢美金就要你打電話去verify）

也因為成功的結合金流，ebay在全球個人網路購物的地位，迅速成功的竄升到第一位
，這點是當初amazon所始料未及的吧，也許是低估對手造成一個ebay網購巨人的產生

其實ebay這種結合自家的金流系統，有許多人在效法，例如台灣yahoo與ezpay，大陸
淘寶網與支付寶，不過都是區域性的系統，還沒有人做到paypal全球的規模

所以如果amazon想自己來結合一個自家的金流，我想目地只有一個，要做到全方面的跨國
，因為礙於金流的限制，amazon中還有許多廠商不做國外生意，只不過在網路平台的戰
爭中，大者橫大似乎是不變的定律，除非對手犯錯，要不然amazon要走ebay-paypal
的模式，而重回網購平台的老大地位，我想難上加難，畢竟在網路中，習慣與信任這兩個
元素是很重要的平台發展基石

以上是本人的淺見


※ 引述《moonshade (一隻歐拉貓)》之銘言：
: 網路上看到的文章，大家覺得amazon為什麼用paypal呢?
: 只是因為是競爭者嗎？據說Amazon也要推出自己的金流，
: 不過看看營收，應該也只有挨打的份吧，覺得
: Amazon總有一天會被買掉...
: Why you can’t use PayPal on Amazon.com
: Published by Andre May 25th, 2005 in e-commerce.
: Tags: No Tags.
: I have a few euros on a PayPal account and was planning on buying a few books.
: But Amazon.com (Earth’s Biggest Bookstore, they say) doesn’t accept them. I
: though that there should be a good reason for that. And there is.
: Apparently, Amazon.com is thinking of developing their own payments service.
: PayPal, works very well and has millions of users worldwide but it belongs to
: a long time competitor. According to Amazon.com’s head of operations:
: using PayPal itself is not part of Amazon.com’s plans.
: From Amazon’s shareholders point of view I can undestand that using
: a competitors system may seem like a very bad idea. But from users
: (who pay) point of view this has proved to be a very big mistake. Amazon.com
: auctions are failing and eBay is fostering. Among other reasons there’s
: is the fact that 74% of eBay auction payments are made using PayPal.
: PayPal has helped eBay put Amazon’s auctions in second place. Will
: it help another big bookstore compete with Amazon.
: If I was an online bookstore, this was the time I would be running to PayPal’s
: website to thinkg o registering myself has a merchant. These are the little
: competitive advantages that allow smaller businesses to compete and strive.
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