Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by MisterTea on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:29PM (#26008562)

The irony is domains like books.com sounded like a sure winner but that only works for books. How would Jeff be doing today if he ran books.com and just sold ... books. bookswebservice (BWS) doesn't have that same ring to it.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by treis on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:52PM (#26008764)

In retrospect the idea of selling everything online was the first great idea. Even if it was a bit of rehash of Sears I think they were the only one that had that vision.

Second great idea was free 2 day shipping with Prime. Great for their cash flow and customer retention.

Third great idea was AWS.

Still TBD are advertising and the marketplace. They make a lot of money but at the long term risk of customer satisfaction.

Also TBD are the media plays (Twitch, video,music,.etc.). Not clear if they will ever make money.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by wyclif on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:40PM (#26009166)

We are firing on all cylinders

And yet, reviews are still horribly broken and have been for years. Also counterfeit products and books are everywhere on the site.

Amazon is going to have to fix those hugely important things before I'll buy the Kool-Aid that they're "firing on all cylinders", which is just CEO pep talk.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by deaddodo on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:47PM (#26009996)

The marketplace makes me use Amazon less now. I don't care if there are 40 5v-DC power bricks and 10 of them are 10% cheaper. I care about vetted products and the confidence I'm buying the product I'm looking for.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by geogra4 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:00AM (#26012547)

Honestly for little stuff like that I'd rather go straight to the source from aliexpress than bother with Amazon as the middleman

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by sharkweek on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:37AM (#26011186)

For fun... what are the major “bad” plays they’ve made?

The phone is probably the first that comes to mind.

That big MMO they tried to release was pretty bad.

I’m gonna try and predict the future and suggest their LotR original series will be bad.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by treis on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:54AM (#26014084)

The phone is the most notable miss.

They've also made a clone of pretty much every other ecommerce site without any real successes.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by swiftcoder on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:13AM (#26011646)

Eh? The MMO seems to be doing ok in pre-release. It was the MOBA that bombed hard.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by sharkweek on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:14AM (#26014315)

Ah that might be what I was thinking of, haven’t played either.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by laurent92 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:11PM (#26008926)

The media part could be about owning the consumer, even at a loss, or owning the providers, or preventing Google from approaching the user login market to tight, etc.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by yoube on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:29PM (#26009080)

BWS is actually an Australian liquor store brand. Beer-Wine-Spirits. Memorable enough once you get used to it as well.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by felipelemos on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:08PM (#26008903)

And you can't have a copyright in that name, specially if you are selling books.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by dialamac on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:37PM (#26009930)

Names are not copyrightable in any case. You mean trademark.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by duud on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:51PM (#26022378)

You could potentially trademark books.com

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-46_8n59.pdf

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