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octavecat
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CanaryBurgundy
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octavecatBroken link, why did They make a dig about massdrop? Seems kinda fucked up
octavecat
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CanaryBurgundyI doubt it's fucked up. A lot of manufacturers have negative experiences with Massdrop in the same way small businesses did with Groupon 10 years ago.
CanaryBurgundy
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octavecatPretend I’m from an alien planet where we don’t know anything about what groupon did 10 years ago, doesn’t massdrop just help companies sell more of their stuff? I’m curious
octavecat
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CanaryBurgundyI like Massdrop and have bought some useful things for decent deals through the site. They've also essentially crowdfunded and co-designed some products that might not have seen the light of day without their involvement, so I am thankful for that. But others disagree:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/massdrop-input-club-halo-switches,35468.html http://www.massdrama.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Massdrop https://forum.level1techs.com/t/fuck-massdrop/91727 https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/6nd96y/i_knew_massdrop_was_bad_i_didnt_expected_it_to_be/
In the 2000s, Groupon brought digital couponing to the world of small business. They had an amazing sales team. The team would contact small businesses, and say "we want you to pay us for the opportunity to offer a 50% off coupon to new customers". For the sake of this example let's say it is a shoe store. So the shoe store would spend money, then get flooded with customers redeeming the coupon, lose their inventory at below cost, and then find out a month later that none of those customers are going to be return customers, they are just bargain shoppers. Many businesses started putting up "NO GROUPON" signs on doors or flat out just turning customers away when they tried to redeem their Groupon coupons, telling them too bad, take it up with Groupon, we're done losing money.
Massdrop does a similar thing. I see a few patterns they follow: 1. helping bring a product, or an exclusive "Massdrop x" variant, to market (like kickstarter) 2. providing group purchase discounting on an existing product (the "group buy", a la Groupon) 3. just being an e-commerce shop with no clear benefit to the customer (e.g., selling Spyderco at retail, but probably involves some level of business strategy providing occasional exclusives from the manufacturer in return)
Some customers and some manufacturers have had unpleasant experiences with Massdrop and the gist of it seems to be in a similar gray area, where on the customer side neither Massdrop nor the manufacturer want to take responsibility for problems (e.g., defects or wrong item shipped), and on the business side the manufacturer may have not found value in the experience (e.g., the Massdrop cut did not justify the effort). But I hold no opinion here, I'm just trying to help and summarize for you.
You can find more at the above links and digging around on Google.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/massdrop-input-club-halo-switches,35468.html http://www.massdrama.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Massdrop https://forum.level1techs.com/t/fuck-massdrop/91727 https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/6nd96y/i_knew_massdrop_was_bad_i_didnt_expected_it_to_be/
In the 2000s, Groupon brought digital couponing to the world of small business. They had an amazing sales team. The team would contact small businesses, and say "we want you to pay us for the opportunity to offer a 50% off coupon to new customers". For the sake of this example let's say it is a shoe store. So the shoe store would spend money, then get flooded with customers redeeming the coupon, lose their inventory at below cost, and then find out a month later that none of those customers are going to be return customers, they are just bargain shoppers. Many businesses started putting up "NO GROUPON" signs on doors or flat out just turning customers away when they tried to redeem their Groupon coupons, telling them too bad, take it up with Groupon, we're done losing money.
Massdrop does a similar thing. I see a few patterns they follow: 1. helping bring a product, or an exclusive "Massdrop x" variant, to market (like kickstarter) 2. providing group purchase discounting on an existing product (the "group buy", a la Groupon) 3. just being an e-commerce shop with no clear benefit to the customer (e.g., selling Spyderco at retail, but probably involves some level of business strategy providing occasional exclusives from the manufacturer in return)
Some customers and some manufacturers have had unpleasant experiences with Massdrop and the gist of it seems to be in a similar gray area, where on the customer side neither Massdrop nor the manufacturer want to take responsibility for problems (e.g., defects or wrong item shipped), and on the business side the manufacturer may have not found value in the experience (e.g., the Massdrop cut did not justify the effort). But I hold no opinion here, I'm just trying to help and summarize for you.
You can find more at the above links and digging around on Google.
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