If the seller is an affiliate that’s covered in their contract. The seller won’t see a loss in money, but Amazon will rake in a few dollars for shipping fees.
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 2 months ago
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Assuming you mean discount, they pay the third party the agreed value, and give the discount from their percentage, or, if they think they can recoup it with more sales, they pay the difference from their own pockets.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Let’s say the third party lists it for $35.50
Amazon applies a discount of $0.51 cents to bring it under the $35 amount for free shipping.
Someone buys it for/that $34.99 but Amazon still pays the original seller based on the seller’s original listed price.
And so Amazon subsidised it, but still came out net benefit because the amount of the subsidy was less than shipping cost, or less than the price of some other item the customer now had to put in their basket to get over the free shipping threshold again.