Amazon Sells facts
While investigating facts about Amazon Sells, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On Black Friday 2013, Cards Against Humanity had an "Anti-Sale" with increased prices, and still had a sales spike and maintained its best-selling status on Amazon.
In 2013, J.K. Rowling secretly released a book under a different name in order to release a book "without hype and expectation." When she was revealed to be the author, the book surged from 4,709th on Amazon to the 1st best-selling novel.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 17 of the best facts about Amazon Sells I managed to collect.
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In 2009 Amazon sold diapers at a 100m loss to scare Diapers.com into selling them their business or face being ran into the ground
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In 2014 not only did Lush Cosmetics sue Amazon UK successfully for selling knock-offs, they also trademarked the name of Amazon UK's managing director and released a shower gel in his name with a tag of "Rich, thick, and full of it"
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Ecuador are going to sell a third of its Amazon rainforest to Chinese oil companies.
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A Japanese company are building giant pilotable mechas called KURATAS and selling them on Amazon
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Amazon UK has sold more copies of Fifty Shades of Grey than the entire Harry Potter series combined, replacing J.K. Rowling with E.L. James as its best-selling author.
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How To Sell on Amazon FBA For Beginners In The UK STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL (MUST WATCH!)
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Avon were successfully selling their cosmetics to women in the Amazon in 1994
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The yellow part of the Amazon logo isn't a smile, it's actually an arrow pointing from A to Z, because they sell everything (from a to z)... and it's a smile too.
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There is a Chinese website similar to amazon that sells items that are illegal almost everywhere else in the world. e.g Corpses and Disguised Weapons. Search for anything you're brave enough to find.
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Roomba Vacuum collect mapping and navigation information on rooms in the home and now the CEO wants to sell that data to companies like Google, Apple and Amazon.
The Amazon Logo has an arrow showing they sell items "from A to Z" - source
This site has found the worst companies selling on Amazon with the most fake reviews - source
Amazon was selling more Kindle E-books than paper books back in 2010
Amazon won't sell the confederate flag but sells Hamas and Hexbollah flags - source
