Amazon.com and e-Bay

Amazon.com is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products.
I have heard that Amazon’s distribution system is incredible. Now, the article says that Amazon.com is opening the program to vendors who list their items elsewhere on the Web--on their own site, through Google, or even eBay.

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Sold on eBay, shipped by Amazon.com

I think that this system will help Amazon growing more and more, but it seems very controversial decision. Bezos is now doubling down on his company's gritty infrastructure, and he says “one day Amazon could do the dirty work of storing products and fulfilling online orders for many of the e-commerce companies on the Web.” Some of online retailers are unhappy with the new system, too.

However, competitions among online stores are always good for customers. A customer buys surplus books and sells them on Amazon and other sites. According to the article, “Since he signed up for Fulfillment by Amazon last September, he says that his sales have jumped more than 30 percent, and a third of the orders that come in are from members of Amazon Prime, the company's premium discount shipping program.”

Unlike some struggling online stores, now everybody can do e-commerce easily without having own distribution system. I am excited about the new system, but I feel a little anxious about that customers can not see and think about the system of the company (unlike Wal-mart or Costco), yet Amaszon.com is such a big company.