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by blairanderson 7y ago
I run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers[0] and can absolutely confirm the research from wsj is accurate. Why? Amazon has broken down HUGE barriers, which make it incredibly easy to start selling. You (anyone reading this) can easily
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers[0], and that reddit post you linked to was mine. 100% agree with you, the click-bait is totally FUD. This program is not a big deal and won't hurt anyone. I was actually contacted by 2 di
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I am run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers[0] and honestly "felt" that FEDEX pricing was too good to be true. Fedex was probably net-negative on the deal. We often saw examples where multiple pallets worth of inventory was
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by blairanderson 7y ago
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investig... This was first implemented at 10% then pushed to 25% a few months later
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers. We have roughly 2-dozen Amazon suppliers and our first-hand experience is that Amazon is absolutely stifling competition/business to the detriment of customer. The biggest problem is `ag
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by blairanderson 7y ago
You are ostensibly correct but basically incorrect. If you sell a product on Walmart and Amazon, Amazon forces you to sell it at the same price or they will not offer it immediately for sale. They change the page to make it look entirely ou
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I would bet money that Amazon has an internal LLC/P&L for this type of non-competes and litigation. I can see it now: _We implemented automatic non-compete lawsuits and income and increased 3x/month-over-month._
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Location: Kirkland, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Ruby-on-Rails, Jekyll, Heroku/Netlify, Postgresql Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/1536309 Em
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by blairanderson 7y ago
This is the fluffiest BE article i've read. > So maybe that’s the real test of Amazon’s pride: can it work out how to let us shop, rather than just buy? Why even write this article?
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by blairanderson 7y ago
thats 5% of his equity if sold at the same valuation of the last funding ($47B). Its easy to point fingers at rich people, but this seems like a fairly logical cash-out. More stakeholders means more legitimacy.
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by blairanderson 7y ago
TL;DR Amazon wants "Zero Packaging" which is their way of saying they want suppliers to pay for packaging, and every product should be manufactured for eCommerce consumption. Unfortunately: - Most manufacturers cannot afford dual
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I know for certain they're working on this, and pushing this boxing up the stack to suppliers. As of August 1st, Amazon started charging/fining their suppliers $2/unit if large items are not able to ship in their own packagin
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by blairanderson 7y ago
If you rent to someone and they don't give it back, the easy thing to do is call it theft, but legally its a breach of contract known in the rental world as "voluntary parting". I used to work for kitsplits biggest competitor
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Shopify Launches programmable fulfillment and new developer tools(venturebeat.com)
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Amazon does show "verified purchase" but who's to say what a genuine account is?
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by blairanderson 7y ago
I would think conversions from ads are weighted the same. Same as reviews from conversions with ads.
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Net Pure Product Margin after cost of goods sold and various agreed services such as damage allowance are deducted.
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Amazon Consultants understand brand economics and translating those into Amazon retail economics. By the time brands are talking to us, they already have products developed OR are actively launching them every year. I am a software develope
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Our data shows "Amazon Choice" is essentially a join table between product and search keywords, ordered by a multiplier of conversions, ratings, and availability. - Customers are happy when they get stuff fast - it needs to be ava
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by blairanderson 7y ago
This seems like an obvious theory, but its not backed by any data. We have seen products with choice badge that are negative margin.
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by blairanderson 7y ago
i would be interested in seeing that, because I do consulting for suppliers selling to Amazon and rarely see flucuations like that on badges.
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by blairanderson 7y ago
TL;DR this is an AWS stack with 10 AWS services required to build/deploy a static site with HTTPS/CDN I will be staying with netlify
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by blairanderson 7y ago
see: https://freight.amazon.com/ also: https://ship.amazon.com/
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Yes its going to continue in a huge way. Their retail team used to consist mostly of buyers. Most of those resources have shifted to private label. Imagine a thousand people previously managing external brands now focused on finding/cr
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by blairanderson 7y ago
Its usually a brown cardboard overbox with a barcode that has extensive droptesting. More common these days is for manufacturers to produce items, and separately purchase very durable over-boxes that are sent to eCommerce customers like ama
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by blairanderson 7y ago
You mentioned two processes that have been in place with Amazon Vendors/Manufacturers for many years. 1. Amazon Direct Fulfillment (dropship): Order is shipped directly from the manufacturer to the customer. Amazon pays for the shippin
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by blairanderson 7y ago
TL;DR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19821813
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by blairanderson 7y ago
> Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 93% of advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2019, up from approximately 91% of advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2018. holy shit
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by blairanderson 8y ago
where does YC state they will only fund a single company per vertical?
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by blairanderson 8y ago
This is exactly the LAMBDASCHOOL model. I fully support more attempts to spread this out! Competition is good!

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