Amazon got this way due to competition in the early 2000s with eBay. Today there aren't a lot of mom-n-pop e-stores. Sure some of it is coming back with Shopify

Amazon got this way due to competition in the early 2000s with eBay. Today there aren't a lot of mom-n-pop e-stores. Sure some of it is coming back with Shopify, Magento and others, but most people starting off in online retail just create a store on one of the big marketplaces: Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Reverb or Etsy. All of them both sell their own products and are also meta-resellers. I wrote about the death of the mom-n-pop estore not too long ago: https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-e-store/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-...