With the Internet today, it is no longer a sellers marketplace, it is a buyers marketplace.
In a sellers marketplace, a seller collects all the inventory they need to do business, and offers their merchandise to the retail public.
Today, with the Internet, all that has changed.
I needed a mixing exhaust elbow for my Yanmar 8 YSM diesel part number 10424-13521. My boat came with a shop manual as well as a parts manual with a sticker for Torresen Marine in Michigan.
I called them, and they were out with no guaranteed time of when they could place the order. 4 weeks was an estimate.
I used google, and found the part on the other side of the country for $20 less, in stock.
Well, that is all good and fine for me, but wait a moment. This marketplace trick worked this time, but what about long term? The place that had the part, undercutting the competition by 20%, will he be in business a year from now? Will the well established business I did not go with, be in business a year from now not being able to fill orders?
Amazon, eBay, FedEx, and the click it now generation, is it a good thing? Rome was not built in a day, but it died off a lot faster than it was built. What about our economy? Will it stand for all this e-commerce? Or have the dominoes already started falling?
Part is on the way. I shipped it UPS Ground, to try and forestall the decline and fall of the American Empire. lol (Should have used USPS, lol)
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