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      <![CDATA[@10: "Have you seen all the cheap plastic shit on Amazon though?"<br />
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No, because I don't use it to buy cheap plastic shit.
        
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      <![CDATA[@10: ". They 'steal' profits from artists buy buying their material in bulk paying them less money for their services because they have capital to throw around."<br />
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What a terribly dumb analogy. Artists don't get a higher percentage of the profits from brick & mortar stores, you know.
        
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      <![CDATA["I don't think this Amazon = Walmart analogy is going to last for long" - I've had this frame of mind for about 2-3 years now (few bad experiences have made me anti-amazon for life). They 'steal' profits from artists buy buying their material in bulk paying them less money for their services because they have capital to throw around. I think putting an equal sign there is taking it too far, but in the sense that they buy bulk products, offering discounts other chains can't possible offer, selling things at a loss to attract customers, Amazon takes on many of wallmart's most profitable strategies. It's the same tactic only on the internet, where there is a more level playing field and as a consumer I can shop around still and not have to drive a million miles away to see if the same product they're selling can't be found better somewhere else. That's why I like 'the wallmart of our era' better, only you can't have a wallmart on the internet because the playing field will always be level. Have you seen all the cheap plastic shit on Amazon though? I'd suggest looking through their catalog, it's just a fucking wallmart for the internet if I ever saw one. I always have to find better products elsewhere, Amazon is like a poor man's corner shop.
        
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      <![CDATA[3,000 of the 36,000 post offices in the U.S. are being closed as "unprofitable."<br />
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This trend continues, the U.S. privatizes post offices further until all we have are Fed Ex and UPS: so they raise their rates and inexpensive postal service will be dead, and good luck Amazon.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Fnarf: "Bu-bu-but Will in Seattle already tole us that this is impossamable, because he has secret access to the component manufacturers."<br />
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      <![CDATA[@3, dont forget about the sooper-seekrit 3D ipad (that Will has seen!) that is coming that will blow everything out of the water.
        
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I could remember when people had to get in their car and drive to get cheap shit...now it just comes to you in a truck.<br />
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      <![CDATA[I bet they are released right before x-mas, possibly November 2011. Pre ordering beginning maybe in September...
        
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      <![CDATA[Bu-bu-but Will in Seattle already tole us that this is impossamable, because he has secret access to the component manufacturers.
        
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      <![CDATA[They're on top for a reason.<br />
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When can a pre-order a tablet?
        
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