Digitising planning | Jack Ricketts, Principal Planning Officer, Southwark Council, and Miranda Sharp, National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Part 1 of 2.
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Most people think Amazon is cheap, often it’s not.. Here’s a simple example: if an item costs us £10 and we want to make a £3 profit, plus we have people pack and ship it via the cheapest economy method, which costs £4, and add £1 for overheads, we need £18 incoming to achieve that £3 profit..However, when selling on Amazon, they charge a minimum of around 17% of the total sale price.
Amazon also has very generous 30-day return policies, often at the seller’s expense, along with other policies that can penalise sellers.This also opens the door for occasional fraudsters who exploit the system to get items for free.These extra costs must be factored in across all buyers.
Those ‘easy returns’?They’re covered by you, the customer.. For Amazon sales that we fulfill ourselves, we calculate an effective cost of 25%.
This covers their 17% seller fee, plus additional hidden fees, and a margin to account for fraud, A-to-Z guarantee claims, returns, and dishonest buyers.
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