From a new report on Amazon’s third-party seller fees…
Using a variety of fees, Amazon now pockets a 34 percent cut of the revenue earned by independent sellers on its site, our analysis found. That’s up from 30 percent in 2018, and 19 percent in 2014.
Ouch. That’s almost double the fees in only 7 years 😱
As I wrote in my Amazon FBA primer, the golden age of starting a business on Amazon seems to be long gone.
Nowadays much of the low hanging fruit has been picked and you have to operate at a higher level – and often with a big budget – to achieve significant success.
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