Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 11 hours agoYou see the things is that the contacts for Costco are complicated AF. I use to work with Costco as a buyer of our stuff and they work at least a year ahead of what SKUs they are going for. They also have to do all the contacts about discounts and rebates and special program offers.
Not only that they also have a threshold that they need to sell before they even pay the vendor.
They held at least $1.5m from us and we didn’t get paid until May.
Costco and Amazon are complicated as hell to work with.
glimse@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My friend’s dad owns a business (trade work, not even selling products) that has contracts with both Costco and Amazon and said the same thing. For Amazon at least, he can’t send proposals or bills - everything is done through an Amazon vendor portal. And he gets paid every time he crosses a threshold, not per job.
When you’re that big, you can just make everyone follow your rules.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I gotta make connections work with pretty much any retailer you can name. And yeah when the biggies say jump you gotta say how high.
That being said, Costco isn’t so bad. But then I don’t deal with the contract stuff. Amazon does indeed suck. Costco is a bit old school but I’d rather that than dealing with Amazon’s shitty AWS APIs.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Exactly and their portals are a fuckin disaster.