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Is that really the case? Most of Amazon's offerings from what I can see are priced at a premium. AWS is much pricier than competitors, and the physical goods th
by joefourier 8y ago
Is that really the case? Most of Amazon's offerings from what I can see are priced at a premium. AWS is much pricier than competitors, and the physical goods they sell (at least here in Europe) are either on par or more expensive than dedicated European online stores, let alone Aliexpress/Banggood/Gearbest/etc. In the UK/Ireland at least, the main attraction from Amazon is convenience - for those items that are available with Amazon Prime, the shipping is much faster than competitors. Beyond those however, I've honestly had better deals and faster shipping with eBay.
- smacktoward 8y agoThe thing is that Amazon is so big and has so many other profitable lines of business that, if they want to, they can swallow losses on the one that happens to compete with you for as long as it takes to choke you out. You can try to keep up with that, but since you’re not as big and diversified as they are, you will inevitably fail. What to them is just a paper cut will be more than deep enough to bleed you white. (They’ll raise the prices once they’ve driven out enough competition to assume a dominant position in the sector, of course, but that will come too late to do you any good.)