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by sushrutbidwai 5501 days ago
Even though theoretically what you are saying is correct. In reality however the tremendous investment group on has done in the building up the sales power provides them with more defensibility than you would think.

For example - A vendor is parting away with some money for every new customers. She could have used the same money via adwords? Still lot of these merchants may not have even tried adwords before. There in comes the power of having reach to direct markets.

Of course sales power doesnot provide as good protection against competition as technology or even UX, but that does not mean we can write off Group on that easily as well.

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What?