This week eBay launched a new website in the US that is meant to compete with Craigslist, the highly popular free classifieds site. Craigslist makes almost no income, backed instead by investors, including eBay, whose funding allows the site to provide a mostly free service in cities all over the US. But eBay has taken advantage of its insider perspective, and its new site, Kijiji, hopes to improve upon the classifieds site model and bring it more into the mainstream.
"We’ve learned a lot from Craigslist," an eBay spokesman said. "We think this market has room for several classified services."
dollars a year, and yet enrich T-Mobile at the same time. In the
cellphone world, win-win plays like that are extremely rare."
of digital distribution, they can’t do anything better or faster than
anyone else.”
frequent calls from you regarding your billing or other general account
information," the letter reads. "While we have worked to resolve your
issues and questions to the best of our ability, the number of
inquiries you have made to us during this time has led us to determine
that we are unable to meet your current wireless needs." Haha! Hilarious. In a culture where "the customer is always right," it’s not such a bad thing for customers to realize that when we’re really difficult, we’re sometimes not worth the effort.
iPhone was worth the hype and/or the money last week, some of you might enjoy
this video of the iPhone being purposefully destroyed. It is one of many attempts to break in the back door to unlock the mysteries of its brilliance, but after so many stood in line and spent $600 for the precious, it’s kind of fun to watch it smacked with a hammer.
TowleTech is written by TR correspondent Daniel Williford.