Re:Was Etsy too good to be true?
by mattmcknight on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:47AM
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I'd say the primary similarity is the marketplace of third party sellers. For products where Amazon.com is the seller, it has about as many problems as anywhere else. Where Amazon.com is not the seller, it is like etsy or ebay, where the product listings themselves are completely unreliable. The #1 thing I hate about Amazon is how they mix third party items with items where they are the seller. However, third party has grown from 3% to 58% of sales on the site, so I don't see how they can get rid of it or fix it.
https://qz.com/1592802/jeff-bezos-third-party-sellers-on-ama...
Re:Was Etsy too good to be true?
by onemoresoop on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:45PM
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I suspect that was a deliberate move to squeeze more profit in a quicker manner.
> Amazon is running into similar issues too with counterfeit items and other scammers
amazon has been running into this issue for decades. it's a constant ebb & flow. this is not new information.
you have to spend money to make money
It all boils down to inability to scale. These companies have internal narratives that they will scale completely horizontally and that they can automate everything. But at the end of the day I don't think anybody has eliminated the need to perform due diligence on their supply chain. What's strange is that Etsy and Amazon would rather their brands be damaged than hire more people to police what goes on their platforms