{"id":10397,"date":"2023-06-14T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/14\/amazon-under-fire-for-ramping-up-sellers-fees-and-advertising-costs\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:37:21","slug":"amazon-under-fire-for-ramping-up-sellers-fees-and-advertising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/14\/amazon-under-fire-for-ramping-up-sellers-fees-and-advertising-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon under fire for ramping up sellers\u2019 fees and advertising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some delivery and storage costs for European vendors more than doubled in 2017-23, analysis shows<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has been accused of being \u201cno friend of the small business\u201d after a report discovered evidence that the online marketplace has ramped up fees and advertising costs for sellers.<\/p>\n<p>It found that between 2017 and 2022 Amazon had tripled the amount it earned from fees for independent sellers in Europe, including for listings, deliveries and digital support. That growth far outstripped the rise in sales, which doubled over the same period.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/14\/amazon-rising-fees-advertising-costs-sellers-delivery-storage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0bc6c8ac6e309ceed5ba0764cf609a88e269db88\/0_267_4252_2552\/master\/4252.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=64816f64c9d42fe11cd67e522d246ace\" title=\"Amazon under fire for ramping up sellers\u2019 fees and advertising costs\" \/>Some delivery and storage costs for European vendors more than doubled in 2017-23, analysis shows<br \/>\nAmazon has been accused of being \u201cno friend of the small business\u201d after a report discovered evidence that the online marketplace has ramped up fees and advertising costs for sellers.<br \/>\nIt found that between 2017 and 2022 Amazon had tripled the amount it earned from fees for independent sellers in Europe, including for listings, deliveries and digital support. That growth far outstripped the rise in sales, which doubled over the same period. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some delivery and storage costs for European vendors more than doubled in 2017-23, analysis shows Amazon has been accused of being \u201cno friend of the small business\u201d after a report discovered evidence that the online marketplace has ramped up fees and advertising costs for sellers. It found that between 2017 and 2022 Amazon had tripled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/14\/amazon-under-fire-for-ramping-up-sellers-fees-and-advertising-costs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon under fire for ramping up sellers\u2019 fees and advertising costs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}