This is not a drill! It’s happening!
Amazon announces the launch of Amazon.co.za in South Africa in 2024
Starting October 17, 2023, independent sellers in South Africa can register their businesses on Sell with Amazon South Africa today.
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This should be interesting considering takealot hasn’t really made a profit yet.
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I really, really, really hope we get access to the same products as the US and UK marketplaces. They always have stuff like switch accessories or physical games that we don’t get locally.
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With all the changes being enforced on Takealot, I wonder if the same rules will apply to Amazon and if Takealot would be able to survive.
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hard agree, the amount of stuff you can get on amazon in US and UK is insane, would be great to have those items here.
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WHAT? That seems absurd!
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Sounds like Takealot better register to sell on Amazon then! 
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Amazon is an online store front, that makes money off of local to the region sellers. This is just another online shop. It doesn’t necessarily bring the same sellers you see on US and European regions to SA. They’re completely separate financial entities, so it’s not like you can order through one, and they magically speak to the other “branch” and you get that benefit. Am I missing something?
The US already owns so much of SA’s retail. This will give them yet another bunch of curlies to tug on, when someone high up, wants a december bonus.
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Yup, very true.
However, I would hope they will at least stock the “Amazon Basics” type stuff locally at a fair price. Not that I’m a big fan of how Amazon rips off ideas from start-ups/kickstarters and produces a lower cost version…
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Spot on. The flood of resellers flogging cheap Chinese goods like a hoard of second-hand Alibaba snake-oil salesmen isn’t going to be slowed by this. In fact, the opposite is more likely.
But, I’m just happy that Takealot will eventually have some competition on the “one stop online shop” front. And if Amazon efficiencies can help to gee up the performance, pricing, and potential deals of other more specialised vendors, double bonus.
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