On Amazon.de a marketplace gross revenue of approximately 10.25 billion euros is generated
More than one-fourth of German e-commerce generated on Amazon. Source: shutterstock.com
About 27% of German e-commerce sales are generated on Amazon Germany. This can be calculated after some marketplace sales data from Amazon sellers leaked, according to Ecommerce News.
In an email sent to some of its marketplace sellers, Amazon Germany revealed – probably unintentionally – some previously unknown details about the marketplace sales of Amazon.de, the German version of Amazon. And with that information, some conclusions can be drawn with regards to the total turnover of Amazon Germany’s marketplace sellers.
According to the mail, on Amazon.de a marketplace gross revenue of approximately 10.25 billion euros is generated. This number was previously kept top secret by Amazon and stems from information found in the letter, combined with Jeff Bezos’ recent letter to shareholders.
Sales of Amazon.de’s marketplace. Source: ecommercenews.eu
Two months ago, Bezos announced that 58% of Amazon’s merchandise sales would be generated by marketplace merchants. And with total sales of 277 billion dollars in 2018, that would translate into worldwide marketplace sales of 160 billion dollars.
And in an email to its sellers, Amazon Germany promotes sales on Amazon with the following arguments: “Amazon.com is Amazon’s largest marketplace in the world: 50% of Amazon’s revenue is generated on Amazon.com and Amazon.com generates revenue that’s seven times as big as it does on Amazon.de, with just half as many merchants.”
So, if you take 50% of the worldwide marketplace sales of 160 billion dollars, announced by Bezos, then you get marketplace sales on Amazon.com being worth 80 billion dollars. And if you divide that number by 7, you’ll get about 11.47 billion dollars – or 10.25 billion euros – worth of gross sales for the marketplace sales at Amazon Germany. And that number is actually lower than many experts in the German e-commerce industry had expected from Amazon. For example, t3n suspected Amazon to generate sales worth over 18 billion euros, while Carpathia estimated it would be worth about 14.5 billion euros.
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