The class about Corporations unfortunately wasn't about how to make a lot of money ;-)
Amazon, eBay, Kickstarter, SwapTree and Flattr are the topics that are introduced here.
Everyone knows Amazon right? Amazon is a platform to buy all kinds of stuff with a section of customer reviews. These reviews help to make the decision for a certain product easier. If you want to find out what the product you are interested in really is like, you have to read especially the bad reviews. What disturbed the customer? Why do they criticize the product? Was it only because it took too long to be delivered or was there a technical problem and the product wasn't working as it should?
These are questions need to be answered when buying a product, so Amazon is being pretty helpful with these reviews.
eBay also relies on the evaluations made by the users, you are interacting with people all over the world or just in your own country and have to find a way to trust the other person your money and be sure you will get the product you bought for it.
So, evaluations made by customers is on the one hand a very good way to find out whom to trust, but still you have to be careful and not just check one or two evaluations but a few more to find out if these are really true.
Kickstarter, I have to say I hadn't heard of that before. Kickstarter is a new way to raise money for projects. For example, if you have a great idea you want to bring to life but don't have enough money on your own, you can place your idea in Kickstarter with videos and descriptions etc. and ask for a
self-chosen sum of money. If people like your idea they can invest money in your project.
SwapTree is kind of a modern bric-a-brac market on the internet. People who want to get rid of their own stuff place it on the online market and create a whishlist with things they want to have.
So people sell their own junk and at the same time buy the stuff others don't want anymore.
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