I guess this is old news -- how did I not know this until now? Amazon owns Zappos?? (AND Endless? And don't they also own 6pm.com? So they pretty much own every shoe site?)
This article on Amazon's foray into high fashion says so.
I ordered from Diapers.com recently, and then realized Amazon owns that too. Which is weird because I think of Zappos and Diapers.com as competing with Amazon. They all have such different prices and models.
Wow! I have to imagine these sites existed independently at first and then Amazon snapped them up. Otherwise, like you said, it's weird that they have different prices for the same product, and Endless sometimes has coupons but Zappos never does, and Zappos has free 2-day shipping but Endless does not. But it would explain why Zappos and Endless have the same (very helpful) all-angle pictures of shoes. I almost always use shoebuy.com -- I wonder whether Amazon owns them too.
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