AuctionBytes features an interesting interview with Amazon.com’s Director of Business Solutions Matt Williams about the Pro Merchant program, Gold / Platinum-level requirements, account reinstatements and Amazon’s feedback system.

Via Steve Weber’s Selling Books blog comes this Fortune Small Business article on eBay’s recent changes and the reaction in the 3P community. Of course the expansion, rather then migration, to Amazon is not a new phenomenon (3P sellers now drive around 30% of all products sold on this channel world-wide) but gains new interest [...]

I am going to start a Thread Of The Week series to highlight sellers discussions around Amazon that are worth noting for online retailers interested in or active on Amazon (from various seller boards). Most of the times these exchanges are educational, at times disturbing and on rare occasions even funny (unintentionally). To kick this [...]

I think it’s not an understatement to say that 2007 was Amazon’s best year ever. Besides blow-out quarters (42% growth??), it launched a slew of technology services that are no longer being questioned, it was one of the best performing stocks in 2007 and online retailers flocked to it (reportedly away from eBay, but there’s [...]

Seeking Alpha has a good analysis of this year’s Amazon Customer Vote hoopla that resulted in lots of shoppers being disappointed over NOT winning anything. Yes, that includes me. But it also highlights that the media attention and buyer interaction resulted in significantly more traffic to the site and, yes, sales for Amazon and you, [...]

Via the Wall Street Journal comes news that Amazon was the most-visited online retailer on Cyber Monday, receiving 10% of the visits to the top 100 US sites. Of course this is pointless since everyone is pinning their hopes on Green Monday (December 10th) as the peak of the 2007 holiday shopping season.
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It appears that competing against Amazon during the current holiday season has just become a little tougher for third-party merchants. Similar to Q4 last year, Amazon is offering select buyers a free one-month Amazon Prime trial. Not only did I receive the offer after purchasing a great Sony kitchen radio but a good number of [...]

The Telegraph is featuring an interesting profile of one of the most prolific Amazon reviewers in the United Kingdom, Peter Harris from Leicester. His reviews span mostly the books and music realm, but it’s worthwhile to get some insight into the people that spend hours sharing their opinions with the world. He was impressed when [...]

Via Weird Enough comes an interesting blog post on the most expensive products available on Amazon.com.