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Ding ding ding. Middlemen get squeezed and are mad about it would be equally fair headline here.
by notyourwork 3y ago
Ding ding ding. Middlemen get squeezed and are mad about it would be equally fair headline here.
- omnimus 3y agoAmazon is also the middlemen.
- LadyCailin 3y agoThey serve more of a purpose than the dropshippers at least. Common market place, guarantees, etc.
- Stephen_0xFF 3y agoYeah, but they created a moat and became sticky. Netflix knew they were a middleman too so they started to produce their own content years before the streaming wars. I worked for one near the border that bought American industrial parts and sold it to Mexican factories. I helped build their quoting and ERP software, but the boss wanted to build a platform for him and his competition to try to become sticky and build a moat. Middlemen should always be finding ways to stay in the process.
- chongli 3y agoBut Amazon adds real value. They built out a huge logistics and PoS system. They have warehouses everywhere. They have millions of subscribers for Prime which gets people to buy large amounts of stuff on the site. Any business owner is free to build their own website, set up payments, set up accounts with FedEx and UPS, and rent some warehouse space. That’s a tough row to hoe!
- eru 3y agoAnd if someone manages to squeeze Amazon out, good for them!
- hackerlight 3y agoOk but that is just one example. If the guy they chose for the example happened to make his own firepits he'd also be getting squeezed.