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Old 02-18-2011, 04:11 AM   #33
jehane
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Originally Posted by sabredog View Post
This goes back to the Harvey Norman debate though, and I suspect that we would see very different numbers across goods types. A lot of people don't like to buy electronics overseas due to warranty and service issues, but with books that is simply not an issue. I think that for the 20% of people who buy 80% of books* the price, availability and convenience of online shopping overseas would be sufficient to drive a lot of traffic that way.

*Pareto principle estimate
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