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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Announces He's Launching 'MyStore,' a Patriotic Rival to Amazon

Felis Leo said:
If they ever were to do so? In two words, vertical integration.
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Vertical integration is not a panacea just because a company "could" do it. Amazon is in the cotton-ball distribution business, not the cotton-ball manufacturing business. Walmart could afford to buy cotton farm land too. Why aren't they doing it?
 
craig said:
He visited Trump shortly before the insurrection and suggested he declare martial law.
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Mike Lindell has always been a 'cling-on'. He clung to Trump and loyal to the end because Mike Lindell, as many of them were, was making tons of money supporting him. But Mike Lindell never had the brains or connections to even suggest martial law, that was all Michael Flynn's bright idea since he still has connections inside the Pentagon and was confident they could pull it off. These men were more than disgusting, they are traitors to this country and if it were up to me I'd hang them all in a row in front of the Capitol about the same location as the gallows they had set up for Mike Pence. Get rid of them all, they have been nothing but undemocratic, unpatriotic, greedy and pure evil.

Flynn suggests Trump deploy the military in 'swing states' to 'rerun' the election, soft-pedals martial law https://theweek.com/speedreads/9559...-states-rerun-election-softpedals-martial-law

Former National Security Adviser Michal Flynn tiptoed once again toward urging President Trump to declare martial law to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory, citing discredited voter fraud claims. Trump "could immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these voting machines," Flynn told Newsmax host Greg Kelly Thursday night. "He could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states."

Using the U.S. military to force states to redo an election is "not unprecedented," Flynn added. "These people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done. Martial law has been instituted 64 times, Greg. So I'm not calling for that. We have a constitutional process," and "that has to be followed."
 
reflechissez said:
Vertical integration is not a panacea just because a company "could" do it. Amazon is in the cotton-ball distribution business, not the cotton-ball manufacturing business. Walmart could afford to buy cotton farm land too. Why aren't they doing it?
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Why haven't they? Because it presently not to their benefit to do so. It is more profitable to let others take the risk of crop failure, farm labor, poor harvests, etc. But I say “presently”. Monopolies generally either seek vertical integration or the next best thing: monopsony and chickenization of their inputs. I could foresee a future in which Amazon controls most e-retail clothing manufacture and can dictate the prices of cotton to cotton growers since they could end up being one of the few major buyers.

And if you think such a future is preposterous, I would welcome for your consideration Zephyr Teachout’s Break ‘Em Up, describing the present state of American monopolies and the dangers they represent to the American body politic.
 
PoS said:
I get a low five figure check from Jeff Bezos every month, so I aint gonna say anything bad about him.
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Sorry, I forgot you were an author, PoS. I thought you were referring to drop-shipping or something like that.
 
Helix said:
I look forward to not buying anything from that moron.
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I've been told on this board that if I don't buy something, the folks selling it won't miss me.
 
code1211 said:
I've been told on this board that if I don't buy something, the folks selling it won't miss me.
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in that case, no harm done.
 
code1211 said:
I've been told on this board that if I don't buy something, the folks selling it won't miss me.
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How much would you say you have purchased on Amazon in the last 2 years?
 
reflechissez said:
With no comparable on-line competition.
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Leading edge. Just like Montgomery Wards Catalogue back in the day. Seems like folks who can take what's there and do something new with it sometimes find gold where others did not.

I wonder if this might lead to something.
 
HumblePi said:
Bezos started that online book selling from his parents garage.
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I wonder if his father ever stood in the door that led to the kitchen glaring at his son wasting his days in that garage, hands on hips, shaking his head wishing that lazy no good would get some ambition and a real job. ;)
 
code1211 said:
Leading edge. Just like Montgomery Wards Catalogue back in the day. Seems like folks who can take what's there and do something new with it sometimes find gold where others did not.

I wonder if this might lead to something.
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Selling things on line is no longer leading edge.
 
Maybe he can be like Alex Jones, have a ridiculous show where he says idiotic things in order to get his followers to buy more stuff from his web store?
 
code1211 said:
I wonder if his father ever stood in the door that led to the kitchen glaring at his son wasting his days in that garage, hands on hips, shaking his head wishing that lazy no good would get some ambition and a real job. ;)
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His parents invested $250,000 when he started Amazon.
 
trouble13 said:
I have not seen his site to have an opinion of it. His idea is solid and its been done before.

Pepsi took a market share from Coke. Fox took a market share of the cable news market. Lindell can do it if he has a good business model.
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Yes but Trump Vodka never took a market share from Absolut, Trump Shuttle doesn't have a share of Southwest's business and we all know how much market share Trump's casinos currently enjoy.

Lindell is not Pepsi, never will be.
 
HumblePi said:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Announces He's Launching 'MyStore,' a Patriotic Rival to Amazon https://www.newsweek.com/mypillow-c...nching-mystore-patriotic-rival-amazon-1583037

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Monday announced that he's launching "MyStore," an online marketplace for entrepreneurs that will rival Amazon, the largest global internet-based store.

Speaking on Steve Bannon's War Room: Pandemic, Lindell said, "I'm looking at another thing we're going to be launching, which is MyStore, which is a rival to Amazon."

Currently, a version of MyStore is on the MyPillow website, featuring a range of patriotic and miscellaneous products, including "Freedom Flags," "Freedom Coffee," "USA Flag Pole," and conservative books about former President Donald Trump.

Lindell boasted that his online store will include a range of products from "entrepreneurs and investors" in a video shared on the site.

"For years entrepreneurs and inventors have come to me with products and ideas. They don't know how to market them and I haven't had the time to show them. And now today, I am proud to announce this platform called MyStore.com," he said in the clip. "I am going to put vetted products from great entrepreneurs on here, like you see a sampling of them here today, that are going to change this country."

He added: "We're finally going to be able to see these products and be able to get these great entrepreneurs, their great ideas, out to you, the public."

The section of MyStore on the MyPillow website appears to have been added over two years ago. In October 2019, Lindell promoted the platform at the Made In America 2019 event.

It is unclear how the new version of MyStore will differ from the existing. Newsweek reached out to MyPillow representatives for further information about the development of MyStore.

After being banned from Twitter for promoting inaccurate election theories, Lindell announced in early March that he will be launching a new social media platform called Frank, which he claims to have been working on for several years. The site is scheduled to launch April 20 after delays.

On Saturday, Lindell sent out an email promoting his upcoming conspiracy theory documentary, Absolute Interference, which will also be released April 20. Since Trump lost the White House to Joe Biden last year, Lindell has repeatedly promoted baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen by the Democrats.

"Mike Lindell presents Absolute Interference," the promotional email for the new video said. "The sequel to Absolute Proof with new evidence foreign & domestic enemies used computers to hack the 2020 election." Absolute Proof was released this February.

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Jeff Bezos will probably peed his pants laughing if he reads this story.

Mike Lindell has a backup conspiracy story to the Dominion one that he can't use anymore

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Trumpublicans are such freaks.
 
BlueTex said:
They operate in a constant state of delusion.
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Their strategy is to continually make up untruths about Democrats in order to justify their own criminality. The latest rush to implement Jim Crow voting laws was in response to the lie that 2020 was "stolen".
 
Allan said:
Yes but Trump Vodka never took a market share from Absolut, Trump Shuttle doesn't have a share of Southwest's business and we all know how much market share Trump's casinos currently enjoy.

Lindell is not Pepsi, never will be.
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Bolded part highlights a big problem and mental shift in our culture. He will never be Pepsi if he has your attitude. Most people fail before they succeed but what sets them apart is that they learn and try again. If you never try because of fear, you will never succeed.
 
trouble13 said:
He will never be Pepsi if he has your attitude.
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He will never be Pepsi because he's batshit crazy. As a result of that major character flaw he'll be unable to raise capital. For some strange reason investors aren't keen on backing lunatics.
 
Chillfolks said:
If he offers the products enough people want to buy ar a price that is reasonable then he should be successful. If he is hoping his and trumps name is enough to make the businesse succeed without offering what people want then it will fail
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Personally, I would love to know that as I shop Amazon there are no Trumpists also shopping. I hope the guy gets all the ass clowns in his car.
I'd like to see local stores become red and blue also.
It would be a much nicer world. No more big, loud pickup trucks where I would shop, just Mercedes Audi and Infiniti.

I really hope he is successful and others follow.
 
Allan said:
He will never be Pepsi because he's batshit crazy. As a result of that major character flaw he'll be unable to raise capital. For some strange reason investors aren't keen on backing lunatics.
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I bet people said that when he said he was going to start a pillow company too.
 
trouble13 said:
I bet people said that when he said he was going to start a pillow company too.
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How much of your own money would you be willing to invest in this new company Mike is going to start?
 
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