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> Amazon simply do not care Why though? How does this not hurt Amazon long term? What are they gaining from attracting dodgy sellers in the short term?
by seanwilson 5y ago
> Amazon simply do not care
Why though? How does this not hurt Amazon long term? What are they gaining from attracting dodgy sellers in the short term?
- modeless 5y agoMessed up internal incentives, I guess. It happens to every large company.
- fmajid 5y agoRevenue.
- efitz 5y agoThe answer to _almost_ every question that starts with “why don’t they” ultimately ends up being “money”. The marginal edge cases boil down to “power” or “stupidity”.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoRetail is a low margin business, whereas being a platform for third party sellers is a high margin business. As long as their reputation amongst sufficient number of people is high enough to keep them paying for Amazon prime, then that is the most amount of effort they should put into retail.
- pas 5y agoLong term is subjective. But the more important point is, Amazon is a must-use shipping provider with a crappy platform. They don't give a fuck about the retail part. They diversified with AWS, Jeff plays with his billions, fights unions, tracks piss bottles, cancels or renews Prime shows, goes to space, etc.. etc.. the site at this point is almost just a cute idiosyncrasy. As long as it runs and the orders are flowing, it's A-OK. Of course there's are probably many teams working on "reforming" it. The NEW amazon.com. The redesign. The refactor. The revamp. The modernization. But all of those are just to keep people working there so they maintain the old behemoth while their project slowly gets put on the backburner (and/or gets scaled down to a small demo page somewhere that no one ever sees or uses).