[quote=sdrealtor][quote=markmax33][quote=sdrealtor][quote=sdrealtor]Ummmmm…ziprealty is on life support in case you didnt know. Redfin while doing better is an extremely small niche player.[/quote]
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I really don’t have their financial statements so I can’t verify it. I know all my friends under 30 use it to look stuff up. That’s enough for me to know the inevitable is coming.[/quote]
Lots of people used pets.com and webvan also. Traffic doesnt always mean a viable business but you know that dont you? Yahoooooooo!!!!!!![/quote]
When I use to live in the bay area. My favorite story as a customer was buying my Audi in Jan/2000 from carorder.com
They’re business model: grab as many customers as you can, because that’s what VC’s like.
So they subsidized all car purchases.
I bought a $35k car without haggling for $7k.. They subsidized the car purchase by sending the dealer a $7k check and all I had to do was place the order through them. I took delivery at the dealership (Rector Motorcars) and just paid the difference. Told my buddy about it, and we bought 5 additional cars (Infiniti) $7k subsidized…We sold the remaining 4 used and pocketed the difference. Again, all because carorder wanted a large customer list. I wish I could have gotten those subsidies last year off of both the x5 and the 550….
Needless to say, we know what happened to carorder.
There use to be an old saying back in the bay area.
The bigger the red number, the more glorious it is! I kid you not. Those were the days.
