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This is why I hate the "marketplace" of these stores. In many cases these products never hit their inventory at all, they are functioning like a search engine a
by mattmcknight 2mo ago
This is why I hate the "marketplace" of these stores. In many cases these products never hit their inventory at all, they are functioning like a search engine and payments processor.
- eddythompson80 2mo agoThat’s generally in their definition. “Amazon Marketplace” came out in 2000 allowing 3rd party sellers on their platform. However, until maybe the mid 2010s, they favored product sold by Amazon over 3rd party in their results and recommendations. I remember numerous forum and Reddit posts from the late 2000s about “How Amazon scams 3rd party sellers” by only wanting them there to give the illusion that they have everything but once some category starts selling, they will vendor it too and steal your customers. At some point in the second half of the 2010s Amazon figured out they can’t compete with a million foreign randomly-generated companies on price, and their users didn’t seem to mind too much. They figured their users cared about delivery times, ease of returns, ease of dealing with Amazon instead of dozens of online sellers, etc and they leaned heavily into that. They will handle fulfillment and take their cut and let people buy whatever garbage they want. They still screw sellers too btw. Ask any one who is trying to sell something on Amazon and they will fill your ear with how much leverage amazon has over them. You can check r/FulfillmentByAmazon/ Or r/AmazonSellers for stories.