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No one is nitpicking. They just don't buy your argument."nitpick" implies a person is addressing a minor detail and not addressing the central point. This perso

No one is nitpicking. They just don't buy your argument."nitpick" implies a person is addressing a minor detail and not addressing the central point. This person, and the comment above (by me) is directly addressing the central point you made, and saying it's weak. Building all the infrastructure required for FBA is much more difficult than choosing products. The proof is in how many people have done one v the other. Amazon does a decent job on both sides - building the infrastructure, and figuring which products to sell, at scale (they do 100's of billions of non 3rd party sales every year).

22289d 3y ago
I rephrased it to accommodate the nitpicking and you completely ignored it, going right back to hard/easy rather than scalable/unscalable. FBA is scalable. These people are doing the unscalable part. "But I was nitpicking whether the word nitpicking was accurate" I'm not choosing a new word, get out your thesaurus. Then read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
- danielmarkbruce 3y ago
  And it's still wrong. Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales. As does Costco, Walmart, Target, and probably a dozen other stores I'm not aware of. It scales, big time. Choosing products to sell when you have a giant distribution engine is one of the most scaleable things in business. If you want to trot out the principle of charity, it goes both ways. You assumed people were nitpicking. It was wrong. Every way you want to spin it by changing words, wrong.
  - 22289d 3y ago
    > Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales. And the remainder is not scalable. All of that done by their sellers. As evidenced by the fact that they are not doing it themselves. I'm beginning to think this thread is being astroturphed. All of you are employing an identical strategy of latching onto minor issues with how things are phrased. A standard PR tactic. And Amazon has a long documented history of astroturphing.
    - danielmarkbruce 3y ago
      Yes. Anyone who disagrees must be engaged in nitpicking, PR tactics, and astroturfing. This all seems very rational. Lina, is that you?
      - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
        Do you know when the astroturfing checks come in by the way? Also is that W-4 income or am I contractor?
        danielmarkbruce 3y ago
        You are human? You must be amazon's first gen astroturfing infra, mechanical turk style. I'm part of amazon's skunkworks Astroturf-LLM service. Automated, at scale astroturfing. I believe we will make it public facing via AWS soon.
        ToucanLoucan 3y ago
        Fucking AI taking our jobs

22289d 3y ago

I rephrased it to accommodate the nitpicking and you completely ignored it, going right back to hard/easy rather than scalable/unscalable. FBA is scalable. These people are doing the unscalable part. "But I was nitpicking whether the word nitpicking was accurate" I'm not choosing a new word, get out your thesaurus. Then read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

danielmarkbruce 3y ago
And it's still wrong. Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales. As does Costco, Walmart, Target, and probably a dozen other stores I'm not aware of. It scales, big time. Choosing products to sell when you have a giant distribution engine is one of the most scaleable things in business. If you want to trot out the principle of charity, it goes both ways. You assumed people were nitpicking. It was wrong. Every way you want to spin it by changing words, wrong.
- 22289d 3y ago
  > Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales. And the remainder is not scalable. All of that done by their sellers. As evidenced by the fact that they are not doing it themselves. I'm beginning to think this thread is being astroturphed. All of you are employing an identical strategy of latching onto minor issues with how things are phrased. A standard PR tactic. And Amazon has a long documented history of astroturphing.
  - danielmarkbruce 3y ago
    Yes. Anyone who disagrees must be engaged in nitpicking, PR tactics, and astroturfing. This all seems very rational. Lina, is that you?
    - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
      Do you know when the astroturfing checks come in by the way? Also is that W-4 income or am I contractor?
      - danielmarkbruce 3y ago
        You are human? You must be amazon's first gen astroturfing infra, mechanical turk style. I'm part of amazon's skunkworks Astroturf-LLM service. Automated, at scale astroturfing. I believe we will make it public facing via AWS soon.
        ToucanLoucan 3y ago
        Fucking AI taking our jobs