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Kolysh believes Zinc is a top-two scraper of Amazon
“We are probably like the number one or number
Two scraper of Amazon and all these other sites.”
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Zinc was Jet.com's biggest service vendor prior to its launch
“We were actually like a, their kind of biggest vendor of services before they launched for a year and after they launched, a lot of their sales were actually happening through us.”
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Zinc holds under 15% of the Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage software market
“In terms of the market, we probably have less than 15% of it in terms of Amazon to eBay.”
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Kolysh: Priceyak accounts for about 60% of Zinc.io's revenue
“About 60% of the total revenue of the company, I would say, comes from Priceyak.”
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Zinc's Priceyak automates 20,000 to 25,000 daily orders on Amazon
“And we place like 20 to 25,000 orders a day on Amazon.”
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Kolysh: Zinc Maintained Profitability for Three Years, Doubling Annually
“We've maintained profitability for the past three years, and we've pretty much doubled every year”
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Zinc used mandatory EU seller addresses for direct-mail marketing
“In the EU and UK legally sellers have to have their address on the listing. So that was even easier to get their contact information. We did a postcard campaign where we just mailed them postcards with some you know, information about Joe Lister and about Pric…”
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Zinc drove roughly $260 million in platform gross sales in 2018
“That being said, like last year, I think in total sales driven, we, it was like two hundred sixty million or so.”
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Kolysh: Zinc's co-founder was a major arbitrage seller in high school
“My co-founder was actually one of the biggest arbitrage sellers when he was in high school and that's kind of where part of the origins of zinc came from.”