This is neat. My biggest complaint with Amazon these days is there's just so much noise on the site. For any given search I expect like half the results not to be serious ones. Even when you filter for just prime, there are tons of edge cases like the mini version of a thing will be prime but the regular version is not, or only one color is prime, or sometimes the item is clearly more expensive than in a store so you're paying the full consumer cost of 2-day shipping even though it's prime, sometimes the item has changed slightly but still includes the old reviews which are now misleading, etc. In some ways these are nitpicks, but Amazon have set the bar so high that now I expect the magical experience that I get with Amazon-fulfilled items for everything on the site.<p>Anyway I feel like amazon would be even better if these low quality listings were moved off to a separate site which was explicitly 3rd-party (whether from businesses or individuals) similar to Ebay. And then the main site would have "official" stuff where amazon does more quality assurance on the listings and it's all fulfilled by them and Prime. (I also think that better curation like this is necessary for purchasing through Echo to really catch on at least for me, there are way too many gotchas in Amazon listings that I still feel like I need to actually focus and look carefully through the listing before I buy anything).<p>My idea is obviously very different than this Bangalore-only product but there's a glimmer of a separate 3rd-party only site here and I hope Amazon evolves in that direction.
In USD:<p>14 cent fee for anything less than $14.72<p>73 cent fee for anything $14.72 - $73.58<p>$1.47 fee for anything more than $73.58<p>This service reminds me a lot of craigslist but with a fee. Does India not have a similar service?
This is tangential, but I presumed a launch page like this for an Amazon product would be copy-edited by a native English speaker, even if for India, no?<p>("Sell as Individual" should definitely be "Sell as an individual", a very common mistake with non-native English speakers.)
Man - I'm so impressed by Amazon pushing this stuff out and constantly leveraging their existing infrastructure.<p>This looks to be affiliated with Junglee (<a href="http://www.junglee.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.junglee.com</a>) so might mean Amazon is repositioning it as P2P.
If framed properly (ie. this isn't Amazon quality, buyer beware!) this would be the single most exciting advance in commerce for myself.<p>99% of the friction of me selling used stuff I don't want or new stuff I produce is the shipping and money handling logistics.<p>I can't do Craigslist/Kijiji. I'm socially awkward and would rather throw away item X than risk the possibility of an awkward situation where someone's messing with me or trying to barter the price down, etc.
It's getting difficult to keep track of all the services Amazon is offering these days. If it's products then the feature will be integrated into the search results so it should not be a problem. But it feels like they are announcing something new every other week these days.