Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands

Post by mcwm » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

33W wrote: post #69

mcwm wrote: post #52

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Hello: author here! I honestly have no idea what that tracking tag is, but 07/20 was the date I started writing this story! Guessing it's just Amazon tracking to see where traffic is coming from. But if you have any other questions about the story or my journalistic integrity, I'm here to answer them!

Hi Mike - can you clarify this sentence from near the end of the article? I'm only seeing two payments to Amazon. It’s now gotten to the point where it’s quite easy to pay Amazon three times in one order: for shipping, which you get access to through Prime, and for a product that’s actually just an Amazon-made product.

Post by throw2016 » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

justicezyx wrote: post #53

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Before you ask whether that sounds reasonable, I'd need to be convinced this is an ad. To me it is an article, one that apparently someone had to thumb through a couple hundred patent applications to write, among other research.

I used ads as an example. The article can be described as an article embedded with Amazon afflicted links. Put that in the disclaimer.

Post by j-c-hewitt » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #29

x2398dh1 wrote: post #10

What's funny about this article is: 1. It's obvious clickbait - "secret" brands - how salacious! Yeah, as though a company wants to keep things it sells secret. 2. Each time you click on a link from the Quartz article, you are given a url with a link tracker tag. For example, for the Arabella brand, you get: 16352060011?tag=quartz07-20 So basically someone sat there behind a computer, authoring an article while using…

I feel a little differently here. 1. Amazon most likely does want to keep it quiet that these are house brands, only because they have to walk the line between third party sellers, traditional retail and their house brands. There are examples of Amazon straight up copying items and putting them under their "Amazon Basics" brand - check out their laptop stands vs the Rain Design mStand. 2. I suspect that it's just a s…

Post by komali2 » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

taco_emoji wrote: post #67

mcwm wrote: post #52

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Hello: author here! I honestly have no idea what that tracking tag is, but 07/20 was the date I started writing this story! Guessing it's just Amazon tracking to see where traffic is coming from. But if you have any other questions about the story or my journalistic integrity, I'm here to answer them!

How would Amazon change the URLs on your article ? More likely, if you didn't do it on purpose, is that Quartz's CMS automagically appends that tag into any Amazon.com links.

Post by DanBC » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #33

x2398dh1 wrote: post #10

What's funny about this article is: 1. It's obvious clickbait - "secret" brands - how salacious! Yeah, as though a company wants to keep things it sells secret. 2. Each time you click on a link from the Quartz article, you are given a url with a link tracker tag. For example, for the Arabella brand, you get: 16352060011?tag=quartz07-20 So basically someone sat there behind a computer, authoring an article while using…

I don't understand this kind of callous judgement of writers trying to make money. We don't see judgement here for the Amazon engineers that wrote the ref system, or Amazon for, well, selling product. I find it frustrating - somehow the writer has no integrity because they want money for their work? What, to you, would have been an acceptable way for this writer to present their research? Raw data handed to the inter…