Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
by mrexroad on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:47PM
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> "The Juligo headlamp has become a top-selling item on Amazon. And we all know what happens to top-selling items: They get arbitraged. Other people -- Becker’s peers -- are now selling her headlamp on eBay and making a few extra bucks off her work. Does it bother her? “I think it’s awesome,” she says. “I can earn some income, and they can earn some income. It’s really fun to watch that.” "
of course she doesn't mind, her "product" is basically a quality control sticker.
> She developed a brand called Juligo, a niche in camping equipment, and found a particular hit with a headlamp. It’s just an ordinary, generic light made by a Chinese manufacturer, which she had stamped with her brand. “I’ve sold tens of thousands of those buggers, a ridiculous amount,”
however, would she still think it's awesome if someone else purchased those same headlamps from the Chinese manufacturer, put the same/similar sticker on it, had no quality control, and flooded eBay at lower cost?
of course she doesn't mind, her "product" is basically a quality control sticker.
> She developed a brand called Juligo, a niche in camping equipment, and found a particular hit with a headlamp. It’s just an ordinary, generic light made by a Chinese manufacturer, which she had stamped with her brand. “I’ve sold tens of thousands of those buggers, a ridiculous amount,”
however, would she still think it's awesome if someone else purchased those same headlamps from the Chinese manufacturer, put the same/similar sticker on it, had no quality control, and flooded eBay at lower cost?