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  • treefrog@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Amazon is the mall Best Buy is paying rent too. It’s not a store itself but overhead the store pays.

    To use your example if the cost of the cables is $2 and the selling price is $20, Amazon’s rent is $10 of that. Leaving $8 as Best Buy’s profit margin.

    • NAK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Amazon is essentially running a huge chunk of a retail business for their customers, the people buying and selling products. The reason you pay these fees is so you don’t need to run a website, build and maintain warehouses, pay staff like HR, etc etc