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by zxienin 2076 days ago
Do you consider it a risk, that Amazon one day can decide to turn the tap off?
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An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it can make planning difficult.
+1 In meanwhile, this is great value add and win-win.
They definitely do worry about that. They have had close calls before and had to negotiate with amazon to keep things going.
If Amazon cuts off the tap, some other major retailer would gladly step in to supply the data in very minimal time. Referral traffic is valuable.
No other major retailer has anything close to as many skus as amazon. And for any of the sites that do have a lot of products via 3rd party sellers, most of those products are much higher priced (they are probably being drop shipped from Amazon) and those prices don't change much.

So I think ccc would lose a lot of its usefulness.