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No idea where they got their figures from but maybe the shortfall is the difference between pure retail and other stuff, like order fulfillment, advertising, se
by dazc 11y ago
No idea where they got their figures from but maybe the shortfall is the difference between pure retail and other stuff, like order fulfillment, advertising, seller fees, etc?
- adventured 11y agoIt's just really bad reporting. The sales figure Amazon reports, is its share of revenue and does not include the merchandise value of what its merchants sell. You can safely bet that Amazon's retail dollar keep, is about eight times the size of AWS right now (excluding their hardware and digital goods business). Amazon handles about 40% of dollar figure sales of all merchandise on its site (and 45% of all units sold). Amazon breaks out the units sold figure, but the dollar figure is a ballpark guess from analysts that track Amazon. You can roughly double their sales to get the total merchandise value of goods moving across their retail site.