Shopping From Your Mobile Phone

Listen Up: Mobile Retail Isn’t Just About Apps

…that cites that eBay expects $1.5 billion in mobile sales this year, and that Amazon mobile site traffic is second only to eBay. The nature of sales on eBay, which are through auctions that require constant monitoring, don’t suprise me, but eBay sales are not normal retail transactions. I personally do not understand why mobile sales would be better than desktop web-based sales because there is nothing special about on-line purchases that require using a mobile device.

If you don’t own a computer and a mobile phone is your only connection to the Internet, then you may use a mobile phone to shop, otherwise, who needs to buy retail items right there on a phone? A connection between mobile phones and retail shopping may exist in research.