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by hippich 6y ago
If I remember correctly, at that time it was legal to book it this way. Perhaps that was "innovation" that allowed Enron to shoot to the moon?
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Fed says it will start buying corporate bond ETFs in early May(marketwatch.com)
1 points by hippich 6y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 6y ago
That's an interesting view of it, I did not consider it. It is essentially the way we are using credit cards - we are not increasing our leverage, but at the same time, we are building a credit history for the company. Just sent you an
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by hippich 6y ago
We did not. Amounts are insignificant for each individual supplier and negotiating, keeping track of, and be leveraged (delayed payment is just that - a bridge loan offered by a supplier) seems like a burden for now. Despite higher risk tol
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by hippich 6y ago
Frankly, with all the bailouts going on, I am not sure our conservative approach to growth was right. Not sure if cash flow conservatism is a virtue anymore. But that is totally a different discussion :)
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by hippich 6y ago
In our case it is longer then usual, as the assembly chain is quite long and we are very conservative with cash flow. Manufacturing on avg is 15-45 days in China in my experience. Sea freight - 2-3 weeks, and couple more weeks to get throug
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by hippich 6y ago
We are working with many suppliers to arrange the final product. The positive here is that we have much better control and fewer points of failure (and competition). Downside - we are still quite small for each individual supplier.
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by hippich 6y ago
yes, they specifically prohibit that (adding flyers). The customers is Amazon's, not seller's (but all the risk is on the seller).
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by hippich 6y ago
Our revenue is about $1m there. We are paying for everything upfront, wait for the sea freight to arrive, clear the custom, etc. Amazon also pays once every two weeks + keeps about two weeks of proceeds on hold on a rolling basis. That toge
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by hippich 6y ago
I would certainly love to read more about your experience. Not sure if you are tied with some kind of NDA, but if you can share more - please post a complete story!
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by hippich 6y ago
You can't blame engineers implementing the business logic defined by management. Current business logic appears to be something like "remove humans making decisions, implement algos doing the job, remove the ability to question th
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by hippich 6y ago
I think eventually it will break itself. Sellers facing such risks will add a significant premium for selling there. Also, even tho you are called a seller and bear all the risks, you do not even see the customer's address (for FBA ord
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by hippich 6y ago
I was researching another issue we have currently, and saw a bunch of similar topics (funny how these were in the "suggested topics" block =)) I posted a few of these. What you noticed about negativity, I experienced myself on the
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by hippich 6y ago
You can bet sellers will move where customers go. Unfortunately, that is not happening, and if anything, during that virus time, Amazon appears to increase its positions (another interesting topic to discuss, btw).
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by hippich 6y ago
In theory - yes, in practice, you speak with someone who has no authority and appears to be there solely for the purposes to be not helpful enough for seller to give up. Only once I was able to reach someone who was able to make a decision
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by hippich 6y ago
From their SAS - Core program FAQ: "How many accounts does each account manager manage? Each account manager manages between 12-15 accounts. We limit the number of sellers that each account manager has in their book of business so they
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by hippich 6y ago
Looks like mods noticed HN traffic and closed the topic. Wanted to ask how they resolved it in the end.
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by hippich 6y ago
Sellers sell where buyers go. Unfortunately, Amazon today represents a very-very large portion of online sales. And if you don't sell there, you lose. And convenience (I think? I don't think it is a place to find a best price anym
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Amazon Seller Account Under Attack by Fake Buyers(sellercentral.amazon.com)
1 points by hippich 6y ago|0 comments
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“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”(sellercentral.amazon.com)
711 points by hippich 6y ago|194 comments
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Figure Amazon Seller Ruined – 6 Figure Mistake by Amazon Employee(sellercentral.amazon.com)
1 points by hippich 6y ago|0 comments
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Robintrack keeps track of how many Robinhood users hold a particular stock(robintrack.net)
7 points by hippich 6y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 6y ago
Per Amazon's policy - no, the seller can not have lower prices on their own website than on Amazon. In practice, for now, it is not enforced (at least in my experience). https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t&#x
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CME switches options model to accommodate negative prices in underlyings [pdf](cmegroup.com)
2 points by hippich 6y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 6y ago
I think we start seeing that in the U.S. with younger congress members not being satisfied with lumping them all together with more traditional politicians. Who knows, maybe we will get that here too. EDIT: Also, if the system tries to equa
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by hippich 6y ago
I see a lot of parallels between political organizations, organisms, computer systems, etc. A larger system with vertical integration is more efficient at producing the result. In our life it manifests itself in affordable mobile phones, be
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Roll Your Own Network(roll.urown.net)
3 points by hippich 7y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 7y ago
Granted, I am total noob in that topic, but how your example of cream and coffee mixing and reaching equilibrium different from a cell receiving an electrical spike pushing it to do its thing until it is done and settling at some equilibriu
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by hippich 7y ago
I did not have a printer at that time. Notepad with a lot of addresses and registers' values... Also, did not realize one can print from the SoftIce directly, as I assumed it run at the lowest level before all the printer drivers. Cert
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by hippich 7y ago
Slightly offtopic, but I always laughed at these types of animations in hacker movies. Until one day I made a tool to extract strings (mostly passwords or hashes, purely for academic purposes!) through SQL injections in SQL Server when the

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