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It’s data on what products are selling well, which they use to create clones and then sell under “Amazon Basics” and other brands. It’s a problem because the s
by orev 5y ago
It’s data on what products are selling well, which they use to create clones and then sell under “Amazon Basics” and other brands.
It’s a problem because the small sellers take the financial risk trying to sell a new product, then when Amazon sees it’s doing well they make the clone and get the profits.
- random314 5y agoI am wondering if Walmart and Costcos store brands are allowed to use seller data!
- throwaway2048 5y agoAmazon on one hand wants to pretend to be a third party market place to avoid liability, regulation, inventory holding risks and so on, and on the other hand wants to collect all the profit, data and exert control as a first party seller. They can't have it both ways.
- makeitdouble 5y agoThis is such a recurring take, I wonder how we could deal with it in a constructive way. To illsutrate my point, please take a look at the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+amazon+wallmart+seller+data&hl=en https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+... I think it indicates a deeper problem, either on how we perceive these companies, or how Amazon succeeded in making itself look like a random traditional company. I don't know the solution outside a very prominent decade lasting lawsuit we could all point at, the same way we had the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit decades before.
- random314 5y agoTBH, Walmart is pretty fucking huge. Bigger than Amazon in retail revenue.