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"Privatize the profits, socialise the costs" may as well be Amazon's corporate motto by this point.
I feel for sellers who are faced with a slowly shortening list of alternatives to sell their products via to get as wide a customer base as possible, and feel pushed onto Amazon by its ubiquity. It's a shit service for sellers.
Oh come on ill give you that in 90% of corporate enshitification cases but if this was true amazon wouldnt still be the cheapest option for buying anything. I hate amazon as much as the next but lets be accurate here. Amazon Prime video, maybe but as far as deliverable goods, come on. They got walmart beat at their own game of lowest cost products.
No extra charge is temporary.
And Bezos could take a slight pay cut that he wouldn't even notice to help cover costs. But, no, the greedy rich are going to be grredy.
Do they pass the revenue to their logistics 'partners'?
Hardly, and you know it
Not called the "trump surcharge" smh
Much like planting a tree, the best time to stop using Amazon is yesterday. The second best time to stop using Amazon is today.
Honestly this is one of my signs for the collapse of the US economy. The other is collapse of goods being taken into Florida since that was an economically hard route to begin with. My last marker just before total collapse is the abandonment of trans continental trade outside of rail freight, possibly including the effective market collapse in the fly over states.
So... its dynamic pricing, applied to their vendors.
That's sure to be a stable paradigm.