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Re:Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees O... by erichocean on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:22PM (#18656874)
> As proof that I am clearly not qualified to run a nearly trillion-dollar company, I offer this advice to Amazon -- ditch the marketplace. No more third party sellers.

Last I heard, it was ~50% of their revenue. And they take a 15% cut of the price, plus a per-transaction fee, for the cost of maintaining a product catalog (which they already do).

Not a chance they'll drop it.

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Re:Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees O... by rootusrootus on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:47PM (#18660090)
If they do not find a way to believably eliminate the counterfeit problem, the marketplace may end up a lot more than 50% of their revenue.
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