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> A client was on track to be selling $X-million this year of some appliances. Our client was forced to to stop selling because of trump tariffs. Amazon won't a
by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> A client was on track to be selling $X-million this year of some appliances. Our client was forced to to stop selling because of trump tariffs. Amazon won't accept a "higher price" from our little company that only sells $Xm/year.
A devil's advocate view: perhaps the supplier was buying low cost appliances from China, built in factories with who knows what labor standards or whether the work was compulsory, made almost certainly to a lower quality than appliances made in North America, taking advantage of China's currency and trade manipulation to mark up the price and make a larger profit than if they had distributed appliances made in a western nation with labor and wage standards.
Now the U.S. is putting the same tariffs on Chinese imports that they put on U.S. imports to their country and the supplier is having difficulty getting Amazon to bear the cost of the supplier's desire to keep the same margin.
- sutterbomb 7y agoThe devil usually knows a thing or two about what they speak of.
- thfuran 7y agoAre you trying to agree or to say that the parent commenter doesn't know what they're talking about? Or maybe to make some kind of religious statement?
- ggg3 7y agothe devil's advocate's advocate would say that even if that was the case, a private organization being the world police of manufacturers' margin doesn't feel right.
- calimac 7y agoThere goes another hypothetical... BEWARE anytime a rebuttal post started with “perhaps”.
- digitaltrees 7y agoWhy is amazon setting the price rather than letting the supplier and the market?
- erikpukinskis 7y agoHe who takest the buyer’s money dost set the price.
- 5trokerac3 7y agoIn this instance, Amazon is a traditional reseller, buying wholesale and selling it as a Prime item. It sounds like Amazon is telling the supplier what they're willing to pay for the item wholesale (the same price they're currently paying) and the supplier is unable or unwilling to meet that. OP is framing this like it's wholly Amazon's fault and not just a common failed negotiation.