FutureShop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

FutureShop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

by Daniel Nissanoff
FutureShop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

FutureShop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

by Daniel Nissanoff

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Overview

FutureShop is a book about change. In particular, it's about how our consumer culture is rapidly evolving to allow us to live better, richer lives for less. The catalyst to this change is eBay and similar sites that are quickly growing into mainstream shopping venues and creating unprecedented levels of liquidity for our everyday goods. The wave of the future will be temporary ownership—consumers will be able to buy what they really want because they'll be able to easily sell it when they are ready to upgrade to the next item on their wish list. Veteran Web entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff's invaluable heads-up explores why this change is taking place and discusses what consumers and businesses can do in order to benefit from this new paradigm.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101201749
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/26/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 604 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Daniel Nissanoff is a Web entrepreneur who co-founded the online facilitation company Portero, affiliated with eBay and specializing in the resale of luxury goods. Prior to that, he founded one of the first successful online b2b exchanges, Partminer, and took that company to a market value of $500 million. He has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies about business strategies for coping with the challenges of the online secondary markets. He was a 2001 finalist for the coveted Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Table of Contents


Introduction     1
Primitive Values: The Accumulation Nation     15
Secondhand Nation: Minding the Liquidity Gap     37
Auction Fever: Catalyst for a Cultural Revolution     57
True Liquidity: Creating a Perfect Market     77
Future Value: Embracing the Auction Culture     103
For the Good of All: The Net Effect     131
To Fight or Not to Fight: Corporate Responses to Change     155
Setting a Course: Winning Business Strategies     181
The Evolution of a New Ecosystem: Tomorrow's Opportunities     209
A Note on the Data     229
Acknowledgments     231
Selected References     233
Index     235

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David Bach

An insightful look at an explosive trend ... the future looks bright for consumers and entrepreneurs alike ... the new auction culture is here to stay. (David Bach, author of The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late, Finish Rich)

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