ambellina - 4:23 pm on Dec 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hmm, let's see... things my competitors do that I do NOT:

Negotiate product pricing - on a retail site which is not intended to be a flea market. Ew ew ew!
Minimal SEO - as in no unique metas, page titles, etc. Once again, ew ew ew!
Not validating their code - my homepage was flawless until G mucked up the new analytics code... and I'm too lazy to plug in the fix. Still better than the other guys, though.

My competitors are pretty far behind in a lot of technical things. That's why a site launched under a year ago (mine) is steamrolling over them en route to the top of sales, traffic, etc. The only ideas I've gotten from them are along the lines of, "they aren't doing *x* at all, so I'll do that really well."