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Raiding Clearance Aisles and Reselling on Amazon for Profit
- Zecar 8y agoIncredibly unethical for them to not disclose their conflict of interest at the top of the article, however it is par for the course for the WP. DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS what a fucking joke of a paper.
- Zecar 8y agoSince this post is about to vanish, I'd like to post again and reaffirm the notion that it's unethical for WP to not disclose their conflict of interest about this article. Y'all need to quit with the echo chamber antics. Bezos is not yours, or my, friend. He's a modern-day robber baron.
- ec109685 8y agoThis is an interesting gap that these resellers are filling. What Target, Walmart and other chains should do is ship their clearance to Amazon themselves to avoid the middleman, but I guess that isn’t possible given they compete in other areas?
- mindslight 8y agoI suspect what they would actually do is calculate if shipping them back to their own warehouse and selling the rest of the inventory online would make sense. But I think what they've really done is tighten up their own logistics (and marketing periods) to avoid shipping too many extra items out to the stores in the first place. I remember clearance sales being much bigger back in the day. Today's clearance is probably still being sold above the incremental production cost, with a rebate from the manufacturer since it wasn't sold at full price. It doesn't matter that they're technically leaving some money on the table - their core business is moving "fresh" stuff at higher markups. (Also, that Monopoly thing was a different type of arbitrage than Brickseek)