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[–] 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

2b. Company thinks their online store is a boutique and sell the stuff for 50% more than Amazon

Somehow it happens even more often with small businesses. My city is small and irrelevant, so when I saw a book with the history of it, I wanted to buy it. On Amazon it was sold for 15% off, on marketplace directly by the publisher + free shipping. So I went to buy it on the publisher website and... MSRP + need to pay shipping

This publisher was doing a war price against itself. A small niche book where you're the only one to sell it. Why would you need to discount this heavily on Amazon?

Numbers:

On Amazon: 13€ + shipping paid by the seller (+customer has free returns in one month). They can't have more than 50 cents of profit for each copy sold

On their own website: 15€+5€ shipping (+customer needs to pay 7€ to return it within 2 weeks). Healthy profit for each copy sold.

You need to be an anti-bezos activist to choose the second option, though.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Somehow it happens even more often with small businesses

    "Somehow"… amazon forcing all sellers on their platform to give them the best price or risk being delisted

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    This is why you see SKU numbers like 301710-A and 301710-B and the products appear identical.

    They "give" Amazon the best price for 301710-A but they sell B on their website for the price they want. The physical retailers also like them because if they match prices - no they don't - it's not identical.

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