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Another PL seller here with a few brands and a couple hundred products: "No brand name" flag is tricky because the Amazon catalog team actively does A/B tests to hide brand names a…

I run a remote-first ecom business with a dozen or so team members. About a year ago, one of our account managers had a life issue, ghosted us, and she held a fairly critical role …

I love SMAC -- I wish they had a real sequel to this complete with storyline. Most Civ clones really don't nail the narrative feel of SMAC as you explore the planet and grow your s…

I see a buncha folks complaining about how the high end macbook laptops don't have color -- for what it's worth there's plenty of fun colors to be had from buying case covers and s…

I audibly LOLed mid-standup call, and now my entire team is playing with this and it looks like this is eating up what little productivity we have on Friday. Thanks Endless Toil!

As someone affected by this: -The old kindles are great products that last a long time -I don't expect Amazon to support them forever, but kindasorta bricking them on their way out…

+1 to this. I was around for the 90s and early 2000s to see when MAP wasn't tightly controlled by the brands; the B&M stores got destroyed because they simply couldn't price-compet…

I mean, 1-2 day shipping is a huge part of their consumer-first policy, which is why every seller has got to do FBA -- for the longest time until COVID, the algorithm heavily penal…

So game-theoretically: if I know the price for an item is the same everywhere, I'll buy it at the place where I see it first (one of the big values of brick and mortar stores). If …

Long-time Amazon seller/brand here, so here's the crux of the case: 1. Amazon is a search engine for product 2. It values being the cheapest destination for products (MFN most favo…

Long-time seller/distributor here -- the main reason for this is mandated by brands, who want to make sure their MAP (minimum advertised price) is respected across all channels. Ba…

"I think about salsa almost as much as I think about software." I feel you on this. :)

Love tango as a dance form... but the scene is limited and not very accessible, which limits its popularity. As an ex-organizer of the salsa scene, IMHO a scene is defined by its e…

Social dancer here -- without hyperbole this was a lifechanging hobby for the better, and while I haven't been able to "meaningfully contribute to" as a criteria, I am a much bette…

Ooh good point. Out of curiosity, have you compared the relative effectiveness of ChatGPT and Claude vs Copilot? Given your existing enterprise contract, does copilot have a monopo…

My loose understanding as someone adjacent to the AI model space is that you have good models that are costly and cheap models that are decent, so a lot of the publicly visible fig…

So if I understand this correctly, Medvi is basically a frontend to white label telehealth services, with wildly successful targeting on an exact niche (GLP-1 served online). So th…

It's prob the other way around -- for almost a decade, Amazon's made it incredibly accessible for any Chinese factory, trading company, and middleman to spin up new brands on Amazo…

FBA products only

I dunno why that's a whole meme, but nobody of any scale is doing that. We produce products through factories like most established sellers.

Amazon third party seller (low 8s) here: last time this happened was during COVID and it ended up being a permanent FBA shipping price increase. Practically speaking shipping accou…

So consider the alternative (because this happened to us): 5-6 years back, one of our brand stores sold a thing ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DKG3NX7 ) that created an entire nich…

"Aligned interest"

That is probably part of the court case: does Amazon.com searches favor VC purchasing in any way, shape, or form. This would require disclosure of their algorithm weights and what …

Amazon seller/distributor/agency here; I've been in the space for over a decade. The title is a little clickbait-y. As far as I understand it: 1. Think of Amazon as a search engine…