This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
On my site I have long since routed requests from Amazon associated IP blocks directly to the wood chipper, so it's nice to see that I was vindicated in doing so. Their request patterns did indeed look pretty scrapey and I was wondering why.
The unsung here of your company if they're the kind that would list products for sale online
Of course it does, it’s Amazon and it’s a huge American company.
They’re acting like Americans do.
Match that with the fact you can try to avoid Amazon and shop in sites directly, only to and the product come in an Amazon box from your local Amazon warehouse, and all shopping is now Amazon.
I hate places that drop ship from Amazon.
It’s like Amazon’s goal is to become the Taco Bell in Demolition Man, only without the fancy.
Fun fact, taco bell was mostly popular in the US, so in the rest of the world, another Pepsi-owned fast food chain was subbed in: Now all restaurants are Pizza Hut
Ugh… they keep sending the small shell!
Why would a retailer turn down an additional resource that drives customers to their site?
Amazon also rolled out a "Buy for Me" feature last year that surfaces products from other brands' websites and lets shoppers complete purchases without leaving the Amazon app.
Ah, that’s why.
Why would a retailer turn down an additional resource that drives customers to their site.
Why would independent artisans be obligated to sell their products through Amazon?
cause it's a monopoly?, and that's how they work?
amazons whole business plan is undercutting popular items by contacting suppliers/manufacturers behind the scenes to capture any new trends, you either have to have a very strong moat/control of your suppliers etc. or you will get boxed out by cheaper amazon brand eventually.
It sounds like it would be very easy for them to never know with this system.
Amazon seems to have jumped in as a middle man and will automatically complete the purchase on the site seemingly forwarding the item itself to the initial purchaser. They're basically just creating an invisible front end for other peoples stores and absorbing it into the main amazon interface.
It’s like the skievier part of DoorDash listings, where they’d list restaurants that weren’t on the platform, make deliveries for them and send angry customers to them when DoorDash fucked it up.
wow, tumblr is fucking garbage
from the bullshit cookie banner than doesn't have a reject button, to the persistent overlay after you clear that.. just... alright, another site to blacklist on my network
So Amazon is basically trying to overtake Google Shopping? To ultimately be able to see what consumers are interested in, beyond the products offered by Amazon. This would allow them to anticipate for trending products, make their own knockoff of it, and list it prominently on their own platform. And if the original vendors want to appear higher (still below Amazon's mind you), they'd have to pay for advertisements: which is where the money is at. Beautiful dark patterns... :)
Yup, there it is. At first I was like "well it routes them to the sellers website, so that's good, right?"
But I had to stop and think "No. That's not how Amazon operates. What's in it for them?"
And it's this. This is 1000% the plan.
Bezos has taken the embrace/exhaust/extinguish business plan to new heights. same thing he did with amazon delivery is the same thing he's doing with whole foods, for all these bougie health food startups.
