Amazon vs Third-Party Sellers

Amazon has third party resellers. It's more similar to eBay than you might rhink

Amazon has a real problem "playing nice" with any of the companies that signup on their platform. Even as a product seller, it is virtually guaranteed that if your product ever does really well on Amazon that Amazon will offer to buy you out and, if you refuse, develop a competitor who will then receive total priority on their platform.

Might have something to do with Amazon selling 3rd party inventory and pushing any losses onto actual sellers.

Sounds like Amazon learned from what third party sellers do on their platform.

Difference is that in retailers, they take on the risk and product research. They buy the items from manufacturers, sell it and then sometimes they make their own cheap unlabeled versions (usually buying from the same manufacturer).Amazon is offering a big open marketplace where they invite people to offer goods, then they observe which goods sell well and how are they made, then the push out the sellers and they offer their own versions of it, essentially pushing the risk onto sellers and on

The Amazon and Costco situations are different.When they start by doing independent market research, selecting a product, building/sourcing it and marketing it, then analyzing data generated by their own sales of these products in their own stores (brick & mortar or online), they are the same.The DIFFERENCE is that Amazon also hosts other sellers and uses THEIR data.So, an entrepreneur comes along having designed, arranged fabrication, and imports a product, then pays fees to s

Amazon lets small businesses sell stuff on their web site and it's a big part of their business, why wouldn't they let middle men sell stuff on there? It also has served as portion of their business to point at and say "see we're fair and not a malicious monopoly, we let others use our platform to sell"

This is missing the point. Amazon is acting anti-competitively towards the sellers currently using its platform. That is the problem, not that businesses could potentially set up their own sites. The conflict of interest is the problem; Amazon undercuts its own competitors using their data.Maybe it is a better decision for a given business to not sell in Amazon. But that doesn’t make Amazon’s behavior any less anti-competitive. Many small-time sellers have no way to reach a large market witho

Isn’t half of Amazon just resellers of aliexpress with a markup?

Amazon does it also with popular independent sellers. I know a motorcycle shop that was selling top quality products. Amazon representative contacted him if he would like to sell on Amazon, showed him offers how to stock and sell items. Amazon started a brand with the same name and their products were higher in search, were poor quality China made, jackets that were falling apart within a year. For the same price! Angry consumers targeted their anger to the real website leaving negative comments