Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 week agoAmazon doesn’t handle shipping for a lot of the things they sell.
This is false. Very few products sold via Amazon are shipped independently from Amazon’s logistics services.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Do you have numbers for this? I tried to find some, and couldn’t.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 week ago
From Amazon:
In 2023, FBA had been the preferred choice of 82% of Amazon sellers to deliver their products.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Yeah, so 18% of the stuff is shipped by someone else. IDK if you want to call that “a lot”, but I definitely wouldn’t call it “very few.” Anyway glad we got to the answer, however to characterize it.