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Easy_Coder - 3:59 pm on Sep 20, 2006 (gmt 0)
As we begin to give these partners our customers in lieu of more business over the short term we lose our actual business over the long haul don't you think? It's juts a matter of 'when' before we see other major shopping comparison engines (Shopping, Pricegrabber, NexTag) implement their own checkout engine where they keep the customer isn't it? That's bad for us small business/site owners because it gives these large sites negoiating leverage with our suppliers when they all of the sudden have a natural distribution channel built in because 100 merchants now sell xyz widget via their commerce systems. Oh, and if we don't like it guess what... they're not our customers any longer. Anybody else worried about this?
Don't you folks think this is getting slippery? The market feels like it's on the verge of a long swing from the independent owner to the big site with deals like this and google checkout...