Chapter 3.2 E-business{0}
What should you do with your old electronics? Well, gazelle.com has your answer. Gazelle.com offers to pay cash for your used, old electronics that you don’t use anymore. They recycle them or they re-sell them to other people. Gazelle.com is a company that buys and sells used electronics. They are definitely apart of the ebusiness world. Gazelle.com describes their business as, “An easy, fast, and safe way for you to sell electronics and recycle electronics. When you sell cell phones, mp3 players, laptops, or other gadgets to us, you’ll earn cash and help save the environment by keeping old, used gadgets out of landfills. You get green while being green! The bottom line is you want to sell electronics and we want to buy electronics. A perfect match! ” They are also a “green” company so many people tend to lean towards them because they want to help the environment. The article, “Why I sold my used iPhone to Gazelle.com,” it states that Gazell.com has a no landfill policy which many consumers love. Everyone loves a “green” company, and because of that, they seem to be doing pretty well in the e-business world. In the article, the seller chose to sell her iPhone to them because she said it was environmentally friendly and that they get their stuff done quickly. Within days they sent her a box so she could ship her phone and get rid of it quickly. She said that it was a very efficient company.
In section 3.2, we discuss what kind of e-businesses there are. There are four different e-business models: Business-to-business (B2b), Business-to-consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-business (C2B), and Consumer-to-consumer (C2C). Gazelle.com falls into the category consumer-to-business model and the business-to-business model. They fall into those categories because they buy items from consumers, and then they turn around and sell those same products to other businesses such as eBay and overstock.com.
I think Gazelle.com is a great company. They are easy to use, environmentally friendly and they are very big in the e-business world. They can get rid of the electronics that you don’t need and do great things with them. If you were to get rid of it yourself, then it probably wouldn’t be as effective. They can do many things that help their consumers and other businesses, which make them extremely successful. It seems like a great company to me.
Works Cited
Baltzan, P. & A. Phillips. (2009). Business Driven Information Systems.(second edition). New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Gahran, Amy. (August 19, 2010). “Why I Sold My iPhone to Gazelle.com.” CNN. Retrieved September 14, 2010, from http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/08/19/gazelle.used.phone.gahran/index.html?iref=allsearch