Value America or VA was a dot-com company founded in Nevada in 1996[1] by Craig Winn and Rex Scatena,[2] and relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia in February 1998.
[6] Also, many of the products Value America was trying to sell were easily available in many other places, making it difficult for them to compete by methods other than low prices.
[4] The remains of the company (in particular the custom supply chain management system they had commissioned) were sold to IT product distributor Merisel in October 2000.
[8] The company's life was charted in the 2001 book dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath by its Senior Vice-President David Kuo.
Founder Craig Winn self-published the book In the Company of Good and Evil [1] arguing that others are to blame for the firm's failure.