Amazon has recently made 3 changes impacting sellers: 1. Refusing to Pay Lost Profits for Damaged / Lost Items Every year Amazon pays out tens of millions of dollars to sellers for their lost profits due to lost or damaged
Why Amazon Has Become More Expensive And It’s Stock Price is Lagging
If you’re a shopper that pays attention you will have noticed prices in Amazon have been escalating the past few years – and Amazon has said its prices will go higher with tariffs as an excuse. At the same time
HelloCustom Price Comparison
HelloCustom is a personalization service for Print on Demand Products. It currently offers 3 pricing options including a “deal” which may not be a deal depending on your volume. Here is the analysis: Option 1: Pay $29.99 per month plus
Amazon Ads Destroying Its Marketplace
I saw a Facebook ad for Jack Archer jeans and decided to do a search for the product on Amazon. Of the first 22 results: 15 Ads 4 Amazon own products 3 Actual sellers No Jack Archer jeans. But after
AI Could Clobber Amazon
When Amazon becomes a commodity and just another website, like how Amazon tries to make a commodity of sellers … it could get ugly. As product searches begin shifting to AI I ran a few product searches comparing Amazon’s results
ChatGPT vs Grok AI Stock Volatility Analysis
Here is a test comparing two Artificial Intelligence services – ChatGPT and X’s Grok AI. The first test is comparing the output to the question: what are the most volatile types of investments chatGPT: The most volatile types of investments
The AI Over Hype
This post may not age well if in a few years AI has become super intelligent, taken over the world and squashed humanity … but for now – yikes the over hype is real. Seems like every company is promoting
Restoration Hardware Stock – Yikes!
I was looking at the biggest stock losers from the initial blow of Trump’s tariffs and Restoration Hardware led the list with a 40 percent drop. This high end furniture retailer sources most of its product from China and Vietnam
Daily Mail Adds a Paywall Like Other News Sites
The Daily Mail added a paywall today, joining other news sites such as CNN, Fox, NY Post, etc. creating barriers to reading the news and requiring cash payments or at least forking over your email so you can be spammed
Security Tip: Disable HTML in Emails
If you are getting emails that look like web pages with fancy graphics and formatting then you have html enabled and literally are receiving web pages as email. It also means you are receiving tracking graphics letting the sender (spammer)