"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:24:03 on Sun, 2 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:
You can of course also compete with Amazon using Amazon's platform!

Only in a small subset of products, preferably ones not available via
Amazon Prime.

Or sell them cheaper than Amazon.

It's not a sustainable business to sell things cheaper than Amazon,
while also paying them to use the platform.

It is if you charge people for postage

What? Less postage than Amazon, who will have negotiated the very best
discounts.

IME (not necessarily with Amazon) postage is charged in fixed chunks with
say 6.95 as the smallest chunk,

when all the delivery of the specific item requires is a jiffy bag and a 2nd
class stamp

not everyone has Prime

Prime is faster, there's also their free postage offering.

The things that I looked for didn't "qualify"

tim