Power Sellers
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Power Sellers, every show
Winters: Raising marketplace standards inevitably squeezes out individual sellers for power sellers
“The flip side of that is it creates a dynamic where only power sellers remain that can do all the standards. So the more, you know, individuals a lot of times can't keep up with the demands of the marketplace. And you certainly eBay is a prominent example of t…”
Wertz: Marketplace scale is driven primarily by power sellers, not hobbyists
“You see in almost every marketplace that they usually start out on the supply side with very small sellers, hobby sellers, or people that only put a little bit of their inventory onto the marketplace. Over time, like, most of the development and the scale of t…”