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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
Amazon has so much power that Standard Oil and US Steel would have been jealous.
Almost everything sold is available there.
They pretty much control the prices, and do everything that they can to drive them down.
They decide who sells there, at what price, and always on their terms.
They control the distribution through their own fulfillment and logistics network, and receive dramatically lower prices than anyone – ANYONE – else receives.when they do partner with another logistics company.
They dictate the terms of returns, and force sellers\manufacturers to accept ANYTHING returned, at their expense of course.
They have 100m+ people locked in by Prime, which they get for perks like Netflix and others.
If that’s not enough, tens of millions of homes also have Alexa suggest buying things on Amazon.
If a company does start to make inroads, Amazon simply buys them.
They’re not a monopoly, they are the Borg. Resistance is futile.