Amazon Is Taking Half of Each Sale From Its Merchants

Fees the company collects from third-party sellers have risen for six years in a row, squeezing their margins

By Spencer Soper

13 febbraio 2023 16:00 CET

Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses that sell products on its sprawling online marketplace.

For the first time, Amazon’s average cut of each sale surpassed 50% in 2022, according to a study by Marketplace Pulse, which sampled seller transactions going back to 2016.

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