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by acheron 3994 days ago
Competing with Amazon on price is, um, ambitious, but even aside from that, you also need to compete with them on logistics infrastructure. Amazon has taught me that a) I shouldn't have to pay any shipping costs, and b) once I order something it should be at my door within 1-2 days. If you can't do that, I become annoyed. And I don't see that happening if they're just re-ordering things from other merchants, none of which can compete with Amazon in the logistics department either.

So, good luck I guess. Competition is good, but they've got a pretty steep hill ahead of them.