5 ms·

The link to the Amazon Prime source is wrong. Now it goes to: http://googleadsenserevenue.org/google-adsense-revenue/how-does-google-make-money/ http://googlead

• sfall 14y ago
  the problem with amazon is that even though it is not a profitable component, it costs more in shopping on average than what the program costs, but they have found that the prime users purchase more on the program
  • gav 14y ago
    There are also secondary benefits of Prime, they are shifting packages from ground residential, which is traditionally a low-margin business to 2nd-day air. I'd expect the increased leverage over their shippers when renegotiating rates is significant.
    • jmccree 14y ago
      I wonder how much of their 2-day is actually sent 2-day? Several times I've hit the $4 for overnight and it still came ups ground. I'd imagine at least half of the products ordered are within 2 day ups ground from an amazon warehouse.