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by rhizome 3290 days ago
Doesn't Amazon already have a lock on all that?
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Amazon's "lock on all of that" has pretty much ruined their brand from a retail seller standpoint. They're catalogue is overrun with garbage and counterfeits. It's quickly becoming eBay. I used to look at stuff in brick and mortar stores and then buy from Amazon. Now I look on Amazon for research and buy from brick and mortar stores so I know I'm not buying Chinese counterfeit garbage.
No arguments there, but to be clear I was speaking primarily to the Alibaba -> FBA pipeline.