Comments on: Amazon Let’s Us Pay Them to Grow

By: How Amazon Exploits the “Mid-Tail” | Adam McFarland

How Amazon Exploits the “Mid-Tail” | Adam McFarland — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:45:39 +0000

[...] October I wrote a post about how Amazon uses data from sellers like us to gain a competitive advantage. You can pretty [...]

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:15:54 +0000

Dude! What’s up! Long time no talk. Ironically I was just on PayMyRent the other day checking out your progress. Writing you an email now…

By: Paul D. Allen

Paul D. Allen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:57:40 +0000

Great read! We need to catch up on a lot of this kind of stuff!

By: Adam Holland

Adam Holland — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:50:01 +0000

You think Amazon does this in a big scale? This is NOTHING compared to Google.. ::cough -BIG BROTHER- cough::

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:52:29 +0000

Good question Robert. They do not take any additional money when the sale is from an affiliate link.

By: Robert L. Goodwin

Robert L. Goodwin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:30:10 +0000

I got a question.
When someone buys one of your products from amazon thru an affiliate link, do they take that additional 4% to 10% (affiliate comission) out of your cut.

By: Dale Ting

Dale Ting — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:14:44 +0000

Hey Adam, maybe you should take the “when you can’t beat them join them” approach. I’m the proud owner of Amazon stock. Ticker AMZN.

By: Adam Gilbert

Adam Gilbert — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:33:20 +0000

That’s why I’m bullish on Amazon. Great post!

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:29:04 +0000

Dave – I remember that post of yours. I can’t believe they closed your account down so fast.

I agree that it’s mostly great to use Amazon as a manufacturer, but if they become a large part of your buying they’ll start to dictate what you make and when you make it (like Walmart does for so many consumer products, controlling DVD release dates for example).

Btw, I coincidentally read an article today that both Walmart and Sears are now opening similar marketplaces. It’s surprising it took this long for other sites to try to copy the model.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:09:37 +0000

It’s definitely great to use Amazon as a manufacturer! You then can control what Amazon can do, because if they want to sell your product direct, you can control that. I’ve had my own issues which I’ve mentioned here, and based on some of the comments I’m not alone:

http://www.davepit.com/my-amazon-seller-central-rant/

Regardless, like you said, they are in the business of making money, and it seems like a genius plan. The only downside as others have mentioned is the tarnished relationships with resellers.

That’s why if anything I’m glad that they took us off for the products we sell.