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jayne's avatar

I quit Amazon a few months ago. too much crap, orders arriving over multiple days in mountains of packaging and not necessarily the best price. I had become sick of scroll shopping - time for virtual isles with formiliar items having exceptional reputation - separarte focus on new untested products and real reviews. No more unidentified crap knockoffs. Worse: my grocery store is Whole Foods (closest) and now I have to pay $109 membership fee to get discounts on food! I'm a one person household. The whole Amazon "value" thing is totally escaping me!

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Mike F's avatar

The problem with Amazon is of course "margins." Physical products don't have much margins that's why Amazon doesn't make money that way. All the "selling" allowed them to build AWS which is their big profit center. The Marketplace lets them collect fees which encourages volume at the expense of quality and the margins of the sellers, who are in a never ending race to the bottom. They simply don't have much skin in the product game because their profit comes from services.

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