Top third-party Amazon sellers compete like stock traders

[dealmaker]

Top third-party Amazon sellers compete like stock traders
Just beneath the placid surface of a typical product page on Amazon lies an unseen world, a system where third-party vendors can sell products alongside Amazon’s own goods. It’s like a stock market, complete with day traders, code-slinging quants, artificial-intelligence algorithms and, yes, flash crashes. (Wall Street Journal)

 

[CyJackX]

I've speculated that technology will one day enable all online-vendors to function on a bid/ask market, I think that'd be swell.

I wonder, though, how second-hand eBay goods could make it onto such a system; probably would have to have some standardized quality-checks, or at least some sort of self-managing market check.

 

[JackRab]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-29/china-has-exchange-traded-donkeys