Mr Bezos is right: selling things on the Internet certainly seems to have a great future.
Neuroeconomists use devices, like MRIs, to observe the behavior of real people buying and selling things.
Note that much of this involves selling things directly to the public -- not through retailers or distributors.
Media companies may have to raze the once-sacred barrier between content and commerce and start selling things on-line.
Anyone can generate revenues by selling things at prices that are so low that you cannot make a profit.
Apparently our local retailer has a policy about selling things "on or after their release date", whatever that means.
Selling things at break even or even at a loss is nothing new.
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These are mostly e-commerce businesses, selling things like domain names and web hosting.
Mr. VERRALL: Well, the funny thing is, I mean, I think they actually started selling things I think around 2005.
Wall Street's rank and file make their money by selling things: stocks by brokers, bonds by traders and advice by bankers.
That chain became CBS and it was extremely effective in selling things to smoke, drink, drive or make you smell nice.
Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired recommendations and its innumerable fascinating reviews, is very good at selling things.
The losers will include those (like Borders, an extinct chain of bookshops) that keep selling things people are happy to buy online.
"Our whole business is based on selling things that are unpopular, " says the 49-year-old founder and sole owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works.
To put in the simplest terms: there are still just too many square feet of space out there dedicated to selling things to people.
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For a little while, they had peddlers and it was kind of a place for lobbyists, but also individuals selling things there for a little while.
"When Putin came here to open a Pacific Rim exhibition, he was surprised to see Chinese people selling things in the markets, " says Wei Dai Tong, the Vladivostok merchant.
The public is sitting in passive index ETFs now, no need to trade or to have a broker or mutual fund manager buying and selling things on their behalf.
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We understand that unless we have balanced growth, unless we have not just consumer demand here, but are selling things -- selling our products overseas, that long-term sustainable growth is going to be hard to achieve.
But of course to advertisers who are selling things an ad being shown to someone who is actively seeking to buy something is much more valuable than an ad to someone who is simply searching for something.
We're selling these things and we get to see celebrities, hedge fund people.
Bankers, who have made a fortune selling the things, fear that this will lead many firms to shy away from using derivatives.
Merging with BAE would have helped EADS do all of the above: the British firm clocks up nearly 45% of its sales in America, selling such things as armoured vehicles to the Pentagon.
Google, of course, stands to make some money selling the things, but with advertising on apps expressly disallowed (for now) and with a very, very limited user base for the foreseeable future, where's the revenue?
Companies, the plan goes, get added sales, plus lots more information about consumers' behavior--useful for selling you even more things.
"We're very comfortable with the way things are selling, " said Mr Bach.
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