Making Third-Party Sellers More Attractive—The Case of Amazon
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2023-01-03
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We provide an analysis of third-party sellers on Amazon’s online marketplace from a customer’s viewpoint. While Amazon as a retailer sometimes directly competes with third-party sellers, Amazon is also interested in making the Amazon marketplace attractive for third-party sellers and making third-party sellers attractive to customers. Based on a large-scale survey (n=772) of Amazon customers in the U.S., we examine how much they like to buy from the different seller types (Amazon itself, third-party sellers with/without the Prime logo, i.e., with/without Fulfillment by Amazon). Among other results, we can show that the Prime logo on the seller side combined with a Prime subscription on the customer side significantly increases trust in a third-party seller, ultimately increasing third-party sales on Amazon’s online marketplace. Furthermore, third-party sellers are implicitly incentivized to use the Fulfillment by Amazon service, which generates additional logistics service revenue for Amazon.
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Electronic Marketing, amazon, b2c e-commerce, online marketplace, third-party seller
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Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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