How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook

Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by beauzero on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:25AM (#16265480)

I still believe that Facebook could take the niche "garage sale" market from Ebay. My wife used to sell on Craig's List quite a bit but the majority of the activity has moved to Facebook. Facebook could take and process payments, if they can for garage sale items I am not aware of it, quite easily and from there move into third party sales to provide Amazon with some heavy competition. As it stands friends I know are migrating from facebook to instagram to get away from political and weird/shock meme content. It could be something that kept the 35-45 demographic from decaying.

...all anecdotal.

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Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by lukeschlather on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:30AM (#16266575)

Neither Google or Facebook can really do consumer sales. To do consumer sales you have to treat everyone as a potential customer. Google and Facebook really only pay attention to customers who have already agreed to spend a significant amount of money.

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Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by tinymollusk on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:46PM (#16271399)

They could pay attention to the person doing the selling, whose customer is the buyer. Swap-meets are generally one-way markets; much less swapping and more of a marketplace to sell (cheap) goods.

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Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by tzakrajs on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:45PM (#16267789)

eBay is better positioned than Facebook because most everything I have ever seen sold on Facebook is garbage and was never something I would have thought to buy.

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