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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by jliptzin on Thursday December 25, 2025 @01:58PM (#46386334)
Not really sure what's so crazy about that. A brick and mortar shop will spend way more than that on renting a good location for their business when they have no clue whether they'll turn a profit. This is just the digital equivalent of that. People trust authoritative domains like vidaliaonions.com way more than something like vidaliaonions-direct.net and they're given more SEO weight as well. At least I know that used to be true; not sure how true that is today but I'd imagine it still is.
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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by cpursley on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:12PM (#46387356)
Yeah, exactly. Go price the equipment it takes to rig out a new upstart plumbing biz (trunk/van, all the hardware, insurance, etc). Startup web businesses is insanely cheap, even with a couple grand on a domain.
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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by dugidugout on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:25PM (#46387417)
You believe brick and mortar shops put money down on a location with no plan at all? This is what OP did, your analogy is pretty weak.
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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by jliptzin on Thursday December 25, 2025 @07:30PM (#46388042)
Yes, I have seen it happen many times.
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