Ishod is the best!
But I'd be pretty skeptical about cheering for Parade World as a service. Like others have mentioned, there are bunch of services that have the same business model and although it might seem pro-customer at first sight, I think the only ones who really end up with the money is the Parade World itself.
Here's an example. We had a online pizza service here that worked on the same model: the site has pizza places and gives you the closest ones, connects customers to the stores etc. and then they took 12–18% of the sale as commission (plus the 24% sales tax). Sounds pretty basic so far. But as the service grew, they also started a added premium service with monthly subscription, that recommended your place over others (as in gives you the ad space). And then then the monthly price almost doubled in couple of years.
So it became a catch-22.
- If you are in the service, you maybe get more sales, but the amount of € you get per pizza is a lot less. More work for less income.
- You need to have that premium subscription, so you can get customers over the competition, but it will cost you a shit ton.
- If you leave the service, you'd lose a lot of customers or have to spend a lot of money to compete.
- They can't raise their prices to cover the expenses, because customers would just pick the cheaper option.
- The pizza shop still needed to cover the costs for delivery too, so more pizzas meet more expenses for the deliveries.
The shops compared it to having extra person working for the shop, but who makes more money than others working there. After a while, some shops tried to get out of the service, but it didn't really work out. Now a even bigger food delivery company bought that pizza delivery service (after they basically doubled it's profits every year it existed), so now there's even less options.
Of course skate shops are a bit different than pizzas, but the basic same premise still stands.