Did you know that Amazon charges fees to sell on their site? When people buy products on Amazon, the company makes nothing. The third-party seller has paid a fee to sell on Amazon, a fee for Amazon to store the product each month, and then a fee once it sells to cover the Prime shipping costs the buyer thinks is free. There is no loss. If the third-party sellers, who usually are small businesses duped into thinking this is the best way, would pull out, that is the real money loss for Amazon.
Comment on Resistance Against Large Corporations is Competition
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know that Amazon has so much money that it can sell at a loss for years if necessary to ANNIHILATE all its competition, right?
No one can compete against Amazon, or Google, or Microsoft, or any of the big companies with profits that exceed the GDP of countries, .
You can’t win by playing THEIR game, with THEIR pieces and THEIR rules.
We have to break stuff, THEIR stuff.
psion1369@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but that’s because they have no competition now. If you start your own business that’s anywhere close to being a threat to them, they’ll start lowering their fees until you physically can’t compete.
psion1369@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which fees will get lowered? Prime? The sellers still have to pay fees to cover it. Amazon won’t care unless the people who are actually paying for everything leave. Be an example and start competing. Doesn’t even need to be a business that sells stuff to compete. Start a blog with talking about sites to buy everything outside of Amazon and Walmart.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”