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Re:Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ad... by ajross on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:43PM (#20712008)
"Someone else" (Amazon) was always getting an extra cut. That's exactly the value proposition of a retailer. I mean, there's some complexity here that you don't see with physical retail due to the affiliate relationship, but the principle doesn't change. The whole point to going to a store for an item is that you know they'll stock it in an easily accessible form and quantity that you would have a hard time sourcing from an original manufacturer. And we've always been willing to pay for that service with a markup.
Re:Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ad... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:05AM (#20712341)
> The whole point to going to a store for an item is that you know they'll stock it in an easily accessible form and quantity that you would have a hard time sourcing from an original manufacturer. And we've always been willing to pay for that service with a markup.

That's the expected cut. It's not extra at all.

The extra cut here is giving someone else a kickback and you get exactly zero value for those extra dollars.