Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
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Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
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Re: Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
#2These are pretty steep API fees for a company already taking a hefty cut on every order flowing through this API.
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#3Only the GET requests are metered. An anti-bot/anti-AI scraper measure?
Re: Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
#4These are pretty steep API fees for a company already taking a hefty cut on every order flowing through this API.
Kinda feels like they gave up on getting devs to write well-behaved apps by asking nicely, so now they're charging them. :shrug:
$1/20k gets shouldn't be a big deal?
Re: Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
#5It’s interesting that only GET calls are metered. Is this a common thing to do?
I wonder if this is also being done to limit marketplace data being scraped with the API or limit how this data gets used by limiting low margin business models. Increasing the fees will have these effects.
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#6The focus on charging for GETs is unfortunate given that in my (very outdated) experience developing against MWS, many of the APIs are of the “POST to receive a token that you GET-poll on” variety.
Re: Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
#7These are pretty steep API fees for a company already taking a hefty cut on every order flowing through this API.
Kinda feels like they gave up on getting devs to write well-behaved apps by asking nicely, so now they're charging them. :shrug: $1/20k gets shouldn't be a big deal?
And an annual $1400 which effectively kills side projects.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda feels like they gave up on getting devs to write well-behaved apps by asking nicely, so now they're charging them. :shrug: $1/20k gets shouldn't be a big deal?
And an annual $1400 which effectively kills side projects.
I have a hard time imagining what kind of "side project" would be making use of the Amazon Selling Partner API. It all revolves around managing listings and sales through the Amazon storefront - if you've got a use case for that, it's probably for something serious.
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#9So they charge the sellers and also the API users? Isn’t that double dipping?
Re: Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
#10Uf that also means that the business api is affected? to pull invoices and stuff. https://developer-docs.amazon.com/amazon-business/docs/downl... not sure if that will be paid as well