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Comment by Goronmon | Hacker News Reader

So Amazon is going harder into the marketplace side of things, turning Amazon from an online retailer into another version of eBay? This doesn't sound like a positive move for me, but I guess that doesn't necessarily means its bad for Amazon's profitability if other people don't mind rolling the dice on random products by relatively unknown sellers and manufacturers.

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Doesn't this article say the exact opposite of what you just said?

No? It says Amazon is cutting back on the "Sold by Amazon.com" items and pushing those items onto the marketplace, and only sticking to directly selling items from large manufacturers.

No. Amazon is pushing smaller sellers into their marketplace platform which is ride with counterfeits, thieves, and garbage products with fake reviews purchased on Facebook. My wife and I stopped going to Amazon because product quality started getting so bad. It's to the point that I trust Alibaba or eBay over Amazon, which is a shame. I suspect there's a lot of less vocal people in the same boat who've started exploring other merchants.

Yep, I have been alot of stuff from Aliexpress lately because you can find sellers that are quite reputable and actually support their shit somewhat. Amazon? You find people reselling shit from Alibaba and not caring a thing about it.

The article doesn't say that at all. It says that they are going to stop sourcing from small wholesalers and buy directly from consumer brands, essentially bypassing other parties and enabling a factory to shipping center channel. If anything is syaing the complete opposite of what you stated in your comment.

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