…Shaxson on Amazon, part 1:
“research shows that the price of sending a standard parcel via Amazon in the UK has more than doubled since 2017.
Meanwhile, the income from the advertising fees that independent sellers must pay to stay visible to customers exploded: a nearly 17-fold rise from 2017 to 2022.
International research even shows that Amazon uses its chokehold over sellers to pocket more than half of sellers’ revenues in fees. Half!”