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Surreal trip through the $175 B Amazon Marketplace(courtesy of The Verge) When you buy something on Amazon, the odds are, you aren’t buying it from Amazon at all. Plansky is one of 6 million sellers on Amazon Marketplace, the company’s third-party platform. They are largely hidden from customers, but behind any item for sale, there could be dozens of sellers, all competing for your click. This year, Marketplace sales were almost double those of Amazon retail itself, according to Marketplace Pulse, making the seller platform alone the largest e-commerce business in the world. That and more on the specific instance in the article that sounds Hellish and arbitrary at the Verge. I purchase a lot off Amazon. I did the vast majority of my Christmas shopping there. I use Subscribe & Save, Prime Pantry, Prime Reload, Twitch Prime, and a lot of other Amazon programs. I try to stay away from Kindle, but even have books there now, and excised Alexa in favor of Google Home (though it's really two devils in that case, rather than a devil and an angel). But seeing these articles, it makes it hard to support them. But so far, the convenience outweighs my conscience. That, and knowing people who make a lot more money in that way than they ever were able to through Mail Order, eBay, and Brick and Mortar. |
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