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---- Major Third Party Sellers Drop Out Of Amazon Marketplace
jwolthuis - 6:01 pm on Feb 18, 2011 (gmt 0)  you are paying
Amazon to compete with Amazon on Amazon's home turf.  I sell a
hundred-or-so products on Amazon, and a thousand-or-so products
on my stand-alone site. (I also sell on eBay, Sears, Bonanza,
etc).  Of those hundred products, about half have other sellers,
either Amazon or third-party, a mix of Prime and non-Prime.
Although Amazon is technically "competing against me", and I'm
"paying them" a commission, I justify that payment based on the
customers they bring to me. They run a very fast, popular
website that gets a ton of traffic, and that's certainly worth
my commission payment.  What's the downside? They sell a few
more widgets than I do. I didn't incur an expense because
someone bought from Amazon instead of me. It costs me nothing to
list with them (I'm not a Pro-Merchant). In fact, the sales and
profits I get from Amazon