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Old 03-18-2011, 08:07 AM   #710
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
My point was that if all Amazon's products were sold for less than 1c, they could not afford to operate.
That would depend on how many they sold and what the variable costs were. If their variable costs were nil, and they sold billions of them every second I'm sure it would be profitable. Most of Amazon's staff and other fixed costs are caused by them selling real items anyway. If they moved to a purely digital stock using automated systems those costs would be a lot lower.
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