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Will eBay and Other 3rd Party Platforms Follow Amazon with a Seller Business Insurance Requirement?

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StockX and GOAT are platforms built to avoid issues requiring insurance by sellers. This is a benefit of selling on those sites. The seller and buyer remain anonymous throughout the transaction, placing the burden upon StockX and GOAT to maintain a friction free exchange. While this appears to be a benefit, the amount of money…

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Amazon’s Push of Small Biz to New Platforms Signals a Happy Moment for those Who Hate Sneaker Resale, but it Ain’t All Roses

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Sneaker resale, like all resale, is one of the most misunderstood topics in business analysis. The Grey Market, or the place where retail arbitrage, bots and backdoors, operate to sell products for profit, is just that, grey. Consumers who hate resale and are unwilling to listen to any reasonable explanation for why it exists. Those…

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I.T. Ep. 203 | I’ve Overlooked This Issue In Regard to Basketball Sneaker Sales Decreasing

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Check out my Books: https://arch-usa.com/product-category/books/ I’ve been writing about basketball and performance footwear sales for years. Recently, I’ve begun to move from inside of my sneaker culture box to examine footwear with a wider scope. I once operated one of the best performing Seller Central Marketplace stores on Amazon. The store had a perfect 5…

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Before Nike Dropped Amazon, Birkenstock Led the Way in 2017 Exiting the eCommerce Giant

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Source: https://www.birkenstock.com/us The November 13th, 2019 announcement by Nike that they were ending their pilot program with Amazon’s brand registry is being touted as a smart business move by most media outlets and I agree. After reading through most sites and recognizing that the discussion around Nike was completely devoid of depth and a true…

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Insider Ties Ep. 158 | Why Making a Million Dollars on StockX is a Paradox

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Links mentioned in this video: A picture of my Amazon Sales from Oct. 2011- Feb. 2013: http://www.arch-usa.com/wp-content/up… Buy my book Nike’s Consumer Direct Offense, Amazon & StockX: The Disruption of Sneaker Retail: https://amzn.to/2N3PMjT Shaq wants to buy Reebok: https://arch-usa.com/shaq-is-eyeing-r… StockX is the most revolutionary e-commerce platform created in the last ten years. As incredible as…

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How Will the Supreme Court Sales Tax Ruling Shape the Online Sneaker Market? 

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The Supreme Court handed states broad authority Thursday to require online retailers to collect sales taxes, overturning a pre-Internet court precedent that had effectively exempted many merchants from collection duties. Source: US Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Merchants to Collect Sales Tax The third party marketplace remains a growing and disruptive force in…

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