UKNM: RE: M-box

[Edward Jezard]

Fiona,


M-box pledges to get customers (retailers, manufacturers and dot coms) up

and running with a home delivery service for the same cost as running a high

street operation. The margins are the same as running a high street store,

so there is no extra premium for consumers to pay. The way that m-box does

this, is by utilising existing infrastructures - milk-rounds, couriers,

convenience stores, postal service. E.g. milk floats pass people's doors

every morning so the added cost of dropping off goods ordered online is

minimal.


All m-box customers benefit from pooling together on m-box resources and so

benefit from economies of scale e.g.. a number of different m-box enabled

retailers can use the same milk float to deliver separate goods to near-by

locations. Obviously, if a retailer chooses to offer a premium delivery

service (e.g.. courier) a fee may be charged to the consumer, however, the

low overheads of operating on the web may mean that the e-retailer, for

example, is able to absorb this cost.


Most of what you need to know is on the website - www.m-box.com. Can you

tell me how you heard about m-box? Are you a journalist? Hope this helps.


-----Original Message-----

From: Fiona Campbell-Howes [

fionaquinquireme [dot] com (mailto:fionaquinquireme [dot] com)

]

Sent: 17 October 2000 16:32

To: Edward Jezard;

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Cc: Bernadette McAndrew; Tricia Tomiyoshi-Marsom

Subject: Re: M-box



Edward, thanks - I'm quite interested actually.  What is m-box' revenue

model?  As I understand it, m-box is paid by the retailer to have goods

delivered, but m-box then pays another third-party to deliver them or keep

them until the customer picks them up.  Where does the mark-up occur?

Doesn't it mean that people will paying premium prices for the stuff they

purchase? What sort of goods are we talking about anyway?


I'm not really having a go, just curious.


Fiona


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