Rachel Ray Gets Shangby’d
Nick Gonzalez
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One relatively young startup, Shangby, has been receiving national coverage this holiday season. Rachel Ray’s cooking show covered the Austin based company before we got our hands on it. The site is like an online Home Shopping Network for goods made in Shanghai.
On most nights they host a live video exhibition from 6PM PST / 8 PM CST. During the broadcasts, viewers can call in to 1-866-212-0875 to ask questions about the products and even haggle over prices. You can also buy items on the site based off of a recorded cast.Live video really captures the look and feel of a good in context, where thumbnails and galleries can be misleading.
Although the company started with Shanghai because of the low prices (price comparisons), specifically around the pearl business, you could imagine the concept working for other locales with low prices, but where shops don’t have an online export business. Mix this idea with a Justin.tv-style head cam and you could have an army of personal shoppers.
I want skinny Racheal back!
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I guess they provide the dog meat for the cooking show.
I would totally Shang Rachael Ray. Current, not skinnier please.
BTW it’s Rachael, not Rachel.
Did you not know that Rachel Ray sucks? And she looks like she would be good at it: http://flomper.com/television/rachel-ray-sucks
I would never have imagined that price comparison sites would be so popular. I guess there are more savvy consumers out there these days.
What’s shanghai like?
I can’t believe someone actually made million dollar startup in shanghai. It’s hell of rich city. They have maglev train, skyscraper, shopping, etc.. I have picture of it. It looks like blade runner city.
Does anyone know…What is like to travel down there?
I shopped ShangBy a year ago - and again last month (for Christmas) - their host Nina is terrific and I was very happy with their service. The live shopping on video is a bit pixelated - but fun to be “in the store”. Seems like the future.
That may actually work out.
As they say on Wall Street nowdays,
“Shanghai, Dubai, Mubmai or goodbye”.
What? Rachel Ray? Mmmmm, delicious!
Shanghai is famous for pearls? I thought Broome was the best place to get pearls from….hmmm, now there’s an idea for a startup
Hyderabad, India is the best place for pearls
Wow, this is fantastic. Does anyone know of any other sites like this from other regions in the world?
Does anyone know why it’s (mis)spelt as Shangby and not Shangbuy?
Rachael Ray, Pearl necklace…
This is such a great idea for a site… gives me a lot of good ideas
Austin + Shanghai = ShangBy
a complete Larry Chiang combo meal would include college credit
Why not ShangBuy???
If I want to buy cheap stuff from Shanghai or any other Chinese city, I just go to the local retailer.
Jon
This is so cool!! I am not sure it will work long term, but still very cool.
Maybe I don’t get it, but who really wants to experience the “joys” of haggling for better prices live over the internet? I shop online so I don’t have to deal with such headaches. And there are much less gimmicky online stores from cities like Shanghai (http://www.mudanboutique.com comes to mind) that offer great prices on pearls (and very low global shipping prices) all the while coming off looking quite a bit more respectable than Shangby.