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Why are you defending Amazon's fees here so much? The costs they charge relate more to their monopoly on where people shop than their actual costs involved

It's just scary to think how much product quality suffers when these companies charge so much in fees. It's a race to the bottom to make any profit at all and they don't have much left to actually consider quality



>The costs they charge relate more to their monopoly on where people shop than their actual costs involved.

[Citation needed]

Offering <2-day shipping across every address in the US is very expensive. Amazon sellers can sell on Amazon without using FBA.


The fees are broken out into line items. Shipping and inventory costs is a relatively small part. General marketplace fees are much higher. Have you ever sold on Amazon or done any research on this?


The general marketplace fees are the same whether you use FBA or not. Your original comment was complaining about FBA fees which are separate from the marketplace fees.


I'm not sure how you interpreted it that way. I was talking about Amazon's fees in general

I'm not sure why you are so stuck on shipping costs. I was clearly talking about all the fees.




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