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by binarysolo 7y ago
(Amazon seller/manufacturer here) What happens is that Amazon suppresses your listing from search so you don't get exposure. Think about it this way, Amazon is customer-centric, so when it delivers search results it's implic
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by binarysolo 7y ago
This kinda makes sense - esp since housing inventory is a recurring revenue generator. That being said, I am curious how much of the inspection cost they'd pass on to the lister -- it seems like getting a guy out to check each listing
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Semi-automated -- with CL you have (had?) RSS feeds that post search queries to you, now I think there are email options as well? I wrote my own reader for fun and it would basically ping me when a certain combination of items hit the site
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by binarysolo 7y ago
My former one-person online biz (2013) is now 10 people - we run Amazon end-to-end ops for a few large brands and manage ~100k SKUs -- basically the work is all operations research + grunt work. We do mid eight digits in revenue. A friend
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Spend 20+ years in Taiwan and China here: most media use 希拉里. There might be specific conventions which compel them to print the full name (if it's a very formal thing?) but they'd do it once maybe, then revert to 希拉里.
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Native Mandarin speaker here - please take this article with a grain of salt as it reeks of whitesplaining. I know the writer spent a bunch of time in China but a bunch of the "nuance" of how the names are interpreted seem either
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by binarysolo 7y ago
re: Broadway - it's because the Chinese name is borrowed from NYC's Broadway - 百老匯. Chinese translators really like to translate names and locations which impart some meaning but still sound kinda similar to actual word. Bai-lao-
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Looks like this is basically a Bose product with Amazon branding so it should be pretty good. That being said, as an owner of both the Bose QC35 and the Apple Airpods, I'm curious to see how this fits a use case. The over-ear Bose hea
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by binarysolo 7y ago
SBA is an interesting offering meant to address long tail brandowners who can't qualify for vendorcentral now that they raised the requirement for it to be ~$10M/year. That's all, nothing insidious here, Amazon is just tryin
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Eh, as a third culture kid with a US passport and 50%+ friends being international/TCK - it's honestly because the VISA process is appalling. Out of a sample of 10 international students I went to school with at Stanford 20 years
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Great ad - engaging, entertaining content that doubles up as exposure for the product. The best kind of ad that is actually useful. (This post is appreciating it, not knocking it for that.)
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Huge bummer, I loved it as a participant. Didn't realize it was a venture-backed business... for some reason I thought it was a nonprofit.
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Seems like Apple changed the search/discovery algo and he got hit with it. Don't think anything particularly devious has happened, but seems like the App Store search team really hit some folks who were trying to organically build
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by binarysolo 7y ago
These guys need to hire an Amazon reinstatement specialist - they're like $2k-10k a pop and basically help suspended guys get back to Amazon. It's nontrivial to get the business back but the main barrier is playing Amazon's g
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Ask this in the Amazon sellercentral forums, not here. Yes there are pro Amazon sellers here but most people here don't really know anything about how the Amazon reinstatement system works at all - as others pointed out it's unfo
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by binarysolo 7y ago
The commenter is just being sarcastic. It's easier to penalize others and self-justify than to care and help others.
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by binarysolo 8y ago
I did a search on the thread and didn't see it, so here's a shoutout to the USA Rail Pass (15/30/45 days of travel on Amtrak; while not unlimited, it functionally is in practice): https://www.amtrak.com/t
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Amazon used to do a bunch of POs from super high to super low volume - which meant a lot of sloppy purchasing (typically buying too much and having excess). Basically their strategy is now 80-20, do the big ticket items direct and let the w
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by binarysolo 8y ago
For prospecting purposes - it's only worth it to engage with manufacturers if you do X million of dollars on their product, so why not have a smaller vendor do all the legwork to grow the listing, prove the product, then cut them out.
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Amazon does do this - it's called Amazon Transparency. https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Also interested in what you use to park your extra domains. I have a dozen or so domains of former/future ideas and would love to at least have them maintain themselves. :)
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by binarysolo 8y ago
+1, this is a lot more common than people expect... though the "best practice" I've seen from megacorps doing morally gray things is to form a front/shell company that takes all the heat. Surprised Google didn't ta
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Yep, Target.com is 2.89 with $25 free ship https://www.target.com/p/formula-409-powerful-all-purpose-cl... -- but for what its worth, the online stores are mostly loss-leaders for the big department/grocery stores
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Amazon manufacturer/distributor of home and kitchen goods here - the rule of thumb is that if it's <$20 (and especially if it's <$10), Amazon's pricing structure to its third party sellers basically compels low dol
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by binarysolo 8y ago
#3, followed by #2 (which he'll liquidate at a loss to not deal with returns in a year). No chance of #4, and if #1 happens we won't hear about it -- for what it's worth, most everyone I know in #1 are keeping it entirely on
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Would love to have an email/chat with a fellow FBA seller as to why you're quitting and how you're offloading your store. I've had a few other vendor friends burn out and I'm curious as to what's going on for
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Amazon seller here, around a decade of experience, doing low eight digits on mostly exclusive products (trademark+IP on products). Out of curiosity, but to the layperson, does the Amazon third-party marketplace seem like an exciting place t
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by binarysolo 8y ago
I would love it if they had an “Alexa, OK Google.” I have a pretty extensive Hue+Echo IoT setup, but it def feels like the Echo is training me to speak the “magical incantations”, instead of me using it to ask semantic queries. Siri is al
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by binarysolo 8y ago
I def feel for the guy and how he basically got years of his life ruined by a big player, but him and his family did some pretty shady stuff with regards to the company computers and data.
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Mildly interesting trivia: there's a Chinese idiom stating "compare 3 shops for a good deal" (貨比三家不吃虧), I guess that makes sense from a statistical standpoint. :)

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