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Anyone else think this is on purpose? Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk. They've been neglecting se
by MentallyRetired 7y ago
Anyone else think this is on purpose? Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk. They've been neglecting sellers on the platform for a decade. Why else would the API be absolutely ancient? A huge change is coming.
- bognition 7y ago> Why else would the API be absolutely ancient? A huge change is coming. What motivations do they have to change it? Amazon has very little incentive to change an API that is a cash cow. The AdWords API is much the same. It's a SOAP api that largely hasn't changed in 5+ years.
- freeone3000 7y agoI hope they do this, for a more consistent product experience. I actually do not trust Amazon to deliver a legitimate product now.
- rootusrootus 7y agoI don't expect a big change unless customers start leaving in droves. Something like half of Amazon's revenue is a direct result of the third party sellers, they won't cut that off anytime soon. They neglect those sellers and the API because there is no incentive not to.
- AFascistWorld 7y agoThird party sellers are cash cows once you finish monoplising the market, sellers will be begging to give Amazon more and more marketing money to move their products.
- coldpie 7y ago> Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk. If they remove third party sellers from their platform, I might go back to buying things on Amazon.