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Originally Posted by Busty2
I found a supplement on Amazon that i used to buy in the UK when i lived there. Ordered a bottle to see if it still tastes as good as it use to. Anyway as it takes so long to get here from the UK i decided to see what it would cost to buy 6 bottles at a time.
From Amazon inc shipping 6 bottles cost $79.62
Then i decided to explore getting it direct from the manufacture in the UK
Direct 6 bottles inc shipping cost $57.60
So Amazon is getting $22.02 assuming the manufacture gets the same price for their product as when i purchase direct ?.
Seems to me a great way to make money
Think ill register Valdivian.com |
You are assuming Amazon is making that money. Amazon is simply a market place where people/companies sell things. It's not always the cheapest place to buy but rather the market dictates the price because Bezos managed to corral a bunch of stupid people into his own version of wallmart online. The bulk of those people are too stupid to compare prices much less check for lower than the buy box prices on Amazon it's self..
He is rich because he is making a few % on every sell on that platform and there is roughly 26.5 million sales a day.
Amazon it's self is selling directly a very small percentage of that 26 million items per day. The bulk is other companies selling on the Amazon platform.