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Why do all these membership/eCommerce sites Amazone, Ebay, etc. only have share ability for your social media?
Every site that has business membership only has share ability of your facebook page. Is there a reason they don't have direct connect? Would it not be better for businesses selling on Amazon or Ebay if someone could connect directly to your twitter or face book page by clicking it vs sharing or am I wrong in that thinking? Maybe it's better to share and gives more visibility, I don't know.
Jay has good point, "Ebay/Amazon doesnt want people selling on Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest" But If I'm a company with a facebook page selling products and I have a facebook link do you think a business would mind if a they could trade direct access to their face book link for a Share link? Which do you think would be more beneficial, with a Share link I get to post a picture of a product I sell with direct access, it would take them strait to my facebook page?
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- ?Lv 73 years ago
Companies such as Amazon and eBay allow you to log on to their sites directly. However, many companies now offer the option of connecting using a Facebook or other social network site login. The reason they do this is that someone buys something on Amazon, and through Facebook they tell all their friends (and probably many other people is they are not security aware) what they have bought. Some of those people will think "I like that, I must get one." so they will go to Amazon and buy the same item.
By using Facebook, Twitter or other such sites, companies effectively get free advertising. In addition, many people on Facebook will have friends of a similar age who have similar interests. The possibility that some of these friends will buy the same item is much higher than will be achieved by normal advertising in magazines or on TV. They still allow direct login to the selling site to catch those who do not use Facebook or similar life sharing sites.
That's my view.
- Andy TLv 73 years ago
That is spamming and they would rather tip-toe away from such invasive practice.
- 3 years ago
I don't think you are wrong. It would certainly be helpful, but from a business viewpoint does Ebay really want people to sell things on facebook? If it got too popular it would make Ebay the middle man. Ultimately destroying the brand recognition that they worked so hard to create.
