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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Friday, May 30, 2008
About Me
- Name: Mark J. Perry
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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6 Comments:
If you look carefully, the information is coming from Oodle.com . I'm not sure how Wal-Mart plans to leverage this. I'd give it a very low chance that this drives more sales on the site or adds advertising revenue.
-Amit
I have learned to never, ever to under estimate Wal-Mart.
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Click on the picture of this link http://walmart.oodle.com/housing/sale/home/-/bedrooms_3/bedrooms_4/price_120000_230000/-/65020/+5/?f=891512677&inbs=1
It doesn't look like oodle.com is appreciated by some groups...
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One has to wonder what is up with Wal-Mart calling this barely alpha site a beta site.
Looks like some fresh faced still wet behind the ears MBA wanted to stick to a schedule regardless of reality.
As the site exists right now it is next to worthless. Unless they have a room full of monkeys writing code Wal-Mart's classified debacle won't be a decent site for months.
I have grown so tired of Craigslist sometimes. I have found other places like, GoGinzo.com, Kijiji.com, and BackPage.com where I can post without so much difficulty. Just my two cents
Too many lefties for them to beat out Craig's List. It doesn't matter what Wal-Mart does, if they have an alternative (which Craigs certainly is) they'll use it.
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