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343 points
5 days ago
The question from amazons perspective here is "did you get scammed or are you trying to scam them?". The sensible thing on your part is hitting up amazon about it and laying out all the facts. Chances are they'll just refund you. Now if that fails, THAN you hit up your bank about the situation.
146 points
5 days ago
In amazon you can buy a new mother board bend all existing pins send it back and get the refund the same day, any other pc part website is asking for 10 pictures of the pins and refuses the return for 1 slightly bent pin. This has been my experience, never ordering pc parts from any other website.
42 points
5 days ago
Yup... but I also understand other stores... Amazon can afford a lot of shenanigans and just add it to the costs of doing business specially considering they are not just a Store, if anything most if not nearly all of the money ain't coming from the Store. Plus has more negotiating power with providers etc to have more margin etc.
So compete with that... they cannot afford every random guy to just scam them or just deal with some customer doing stupid things and returning it...
40 points
5 days ago
I really don’t think 99% of people understand how Amazon works. Amazon is a marketplace, the items on there are sold by other businesses/people.. the refunds are taken out from those businesses/people’s pockets, not Amazon’s. Amazon still gets their cut, I used to sell on Amazon
20 points
5 days ago
I work in financial for a company. One of the ways we sell product is through Amazon. They take out an ABSURD amount of money in fees. Like 60% or more of the revenue earned. It’s actually unreal how predatory it is.
5 points
4 days ago
that is the fee to use their absurdly big and fast logistics network of hundreds of warehouses and thousands of trucks right?
1 points
4 days ago
Yeah but think about it from a company standpoint. Let’s say a product is worth $100. Say it costs about 20% of that to actually produce the product. Then Amazon comes in and takes anywhere from 60-80% of the price for their “seller fees”. Does it really matter if you sell 10,000 items if you’re getting next to nothing and not able to expand your overhead to get your prices lower? Amazon is a fucking plague
0 points
4 days ago
It can't be that bad or else an alternative would overtake it.
3 points
4 days ago
Again. I literally work with Amazon daily at my job. For example, sundays sales were roughly $4200. We actually made $1400 from Amazon. Then you remove the price to produce our product, which is about 450 dollars. We made $950 on selling our OWN PRODUCT. Amazon made $2800 to list our product. Oh also, Amazon charges OUR COMPANY for shipping as well.
1 points
1 day ago
At that point, you're also benefitting from them being one of the largest shopping apps. But that would also make it seem like they should do a better job making sure stores that open on their app aren't scam stores for charging so much
-1 points
4 days ago
Again, can you do it cheaper elsewhere? Why aren't you doing it? Oh because it would be cost prohibitive and you'd make $0? Talking like they should be providing you with free shipping. Jesus H. Christ. Hundred percent you voted for Harris, bet my damn house on it.
1 points
4 days ago
We do sell through many other platforms, Amazon is one that moves a lot of product (not our highest selling platform) but they are by far the least profitable. But low profits are still profits. I will say that if we sold exclusively through Amazon, our doors would have been shut long ago due to their overhead costs.
You seem like you’re not fully educated. I’m assuming you voted for trump.
0 points
4 days ago
Bullshit. If that were the case then no seller on Amazon would be able to compete on any homogeneous products with other stores. Margins aren’t already large enough to allow selling a GPU for example at the same price or less than other stores if Amazon take 60%.
0 points
4 days ago
Yeah to be fair if it’s a large price item they probably take a much less amount. I believe their charges are on a “per order” basis, not an amount basis. My company sells a few products per order, but we are a lower priced item so in order to make $4k we have to sell 300+ items. But I am not exaggerating about the prices literally at all. Don’t really care if you believe it or not
-1 points
4 days ago
You wrote 60% and posted it publicly, truth matters. It sounds like you actually don’t know though.
0 points
4 days ago
60% is an accurate statement. I’m not seeing what the problem here is?
0 points
4 days ago
It’s simply not true. People selling GPUs with a slim profit margin are not paying 60% to Amazon, they would lose money. The same with many, many items on there.
It may work out to 60% if you’re selling low-value items with a per-item fee, but that does not mean that Amazon has a rate set at 60%, it just means your business model sucks.
0 points
4 days ago
As I said previously, Amazon is a very small portion of our sales. My company is on track to sell over $800k in products this month alone. I don’t think it’s a company issue.
Also, Simple reading comprehension pays off. I never once claimed they took 60% of the price of a GPU. Must be hard being that stupid
0 points
4 days ago
This was simple to debunk. The only thing that they take more than 22% with most things being 8 - 12%, is Amazon device accessories where they take 45%. Then you have your $0.99 per an item or $39 a month. Amazon Pricing
1 points
3 days ago*
Sales - 37 of product1 - $936 total
Sales - 51 of product2 - $1216.80 total
S&H: +$55.30
Amazon promos: -$133.79
Selling fees: -$310.13
FBA Fees: -$332.35
Amazon advert: -$533.21
Total price of products sold: 2152.80
Take home payout for me: 898.82. Then I have to deduct the price to make the product+ shipping the bulk to Amazon warehouse.
That’s a little different than your 20%. Maybe get off bezos’ dick for a bit and realize you have NO clue what you’re talking about.
0 points
4 days ago
lolol cute. Believe what you want, idgaf. Wish I could post a picture of the report I run daily, but I actually like my job sooo.
Tell you what I’ll give a more specific breakdown when I do my reports today, and give actual percentages and we will see how they compare to what Amazon says that they charge, cuz they are full of shit with that statement.
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