.); consumer-to-consumer platform sales (eBay, auction sites, etc.). We exclude the following consumer categories from our definition of total retail and ecommerce sales: food services and drinking place sales (i.e., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments such as bill pay, taxes, or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales.
This is niche, but I've sold stuff on eBay before and that there's a special noise that pings when something sells and it's exciting, like to Blake's point. Marcus Johnson:. I was trying to find any research on haptics, there's not a ton. There was a Fast Company article that was written quite recently from Chandra Johnson-Greene of VSP Vision, that's the company name.
It can also handle delivery for products sold on other marketplaces like eBay or sellers own websites. But Suzy, Amazon relaunching Amazon Shipping, what's the point? Suzy Davidkhanian:.
And the third one is Topic, which is owned by Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who has been trying to sort of build a media empire with First Look Media and mostly failing at it. But Topic is great.