Newegg and Walmart have fallen to the same thing Amazon has: allowing 3rd party sellers.
They're not as far along, but going down that path is what causes so many issues with counterfeits and generally poor experiences. I accidentally bought some thermal paste from a newegg seller who shipped it via slow-boat-from-china, and it took weeks to get to me. It was technically listed, but I hate any shopping experience that forces me to be on high alert not to get screwed (as minor as super-slow shipping is).
Target is getting into the 3rd party seller game through Target+. It appears they have a pretty tight process for what gets approved to sell and who gets to sell it. Target by culture is extremely intentional about what they allow on their shelves, and it appears they are following suit with their 'curated' 3rd party sellers.
I honestly don't understand the 3rd party seller thing.
I went from buying almost all PC parts from NewEgg (without even bothering to price shop), to pretty much avoiding the site entirely.
If you look at almost any of the 3rd party sellers' pages and sort by rating, you'll pretty much see the same pattern on all: a tiny handful of 4-5 star reviews, 1 star reviews by the bottom of page 1, and the remaining 80 pages of products have no reviews at all.
Is this really helping Walmart/NewEgg/Amazon/etc vs them just selling the same products directly themselves? Why do this -- are they just trying to avoid these sellers starting competing no-name e-commerce sites?
> Is this really helping Walmart/NewEgg/Amazon/etc vs them just selling the same products directly themselves? Why do this -- are they just trying to avoid these sellers starting competing no-name e-commerce sites?
My thought would be this allows them to pivot from being a "logistics" company to being a "tech" company, providing a "platform" for others.
Walmart website is still stuck in 08. I have to search for things 3 different ways and even then I can’t seem to get one search page to list products of the same type
Amazon is increasingly overrated, they peaked a decade ago and have declined to a warehouse club/flea market.