E-commerce & Retail

Online shops, delivery and rental services that ran out of money or customers.

10 projects

Redbox A dollar a night from a vending machine, until the lights went out mid-rental 2002–2024 E-commerce & Retail Jet.com Walmart paid $3 billion, then switched it off 2015–2020 E-commerce & Retail LoveFilm Europe's Netflix by post: DVDs in red envelopes, bought by Amazon and closed disc by disc 2002–2017 E-commerce & Retail Half.com It once bought a whole town for its name 2000–2017 E-commerce & Retail Blockbuster Turned down Netflix for $50 million, and one store survives 1985–2014 E-commerce & Retail Webvan Right idea, twenty years early, at a billion dollars a mistake 1999–2001 E-commerce & Retail Kozmo.com A video in an hour, free, by bicycle 1998–2001 E-commerce & Retail eToys.com Worth more than Toys R Us, for about a year 1997–2001 E-commerce & Retail Pets.com The sock puppet outlived the company 1998–2000 E-commerce & Retail Boo.com $135 million in eighteen months, on a site nobody could load 1999–2000 E-commerce & Retail