Now we're in the era of Web applications, which are even easier to learn than Windows apps. You just point with the mouse cursor and click. Latency, thanks to bandwidth constraints and Internet traffic, will always be a problem. Instead, the company will offer consumer electronics and other luxury goods. This model represents a far more promising approach to e-commerce than online auctions.
Auctions drive prices up, but tend to have small volume.
Yeah, that might piss off traditional distributors, especially if the model leaves them out of the transaction. Of course, distributors could choose to become suppliers to these co-op channels and use them to increase their own sales.