On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:16:02 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Amazon does this sort of thing - their main products are books, music,
>> and videos, but they've created a sort of "marketplace" where you can
>> buy nearly anything you want...
> 
> I see... So if I buy a fridge from Amazon, I'm really buying it from
> some other random company. Amazon just runs the website and processes
> the payments? (And takes a slice of the money...)

Yep, exactly. :-)

> I was wondering how a book store is suddenly able to sell cars and
> office desks...

Third party vendors. :-)

Jim

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