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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Safari - Google search deal expires soon.  New default for Safari ...
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:43:16 +1100
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"AV3" <arvimide@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> On 2/5/15, 11:55, nospam wrote:
>> In article<cjfc6pF5tlqU1@mid.individual.net>, Rod Speed
>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>Doesn't mean they don't
>>> compete.
>>
>> ebay and amazon do not compete at all!
>>
>> one's an auction site and the other is an online vendor.
>
>
> There is some overlap in how they function.

There is a hell of a lot of overlap with who uses them.

> eBay does offer many of its wares for sale at the announced price without 
> auctioning.

In fact most of the transaction volume moves that way now.

> And they compete for the custom of people trying to sell off used goods, 
> eBay offering auctions and Amazon offering to buy the goods and later sell 
> at a fixed price.

And even when the detail of how they operate differs,
that is irrelevant to whether they compete or not.

eStores obviously compete with bricks and mortar
stores even tho the way they operate is quite different.