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Topic: Amazon.com

Posted By: Misty
Subject: Amazon.com
Date Posted: 28 March 2005 at 2:53am

I am just curious. Does anyone have any idea how much it cost to build the web site for Amazon.com? Does anyone have any idea how many products Amazon.com actually sells?

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Posted By: Steve 1970
Date Posted: 28 March 2005 at 11:27am

wouldn't be a bad idea to have a Auction add on with forums

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 28 March 2005 at 1:52pm

Amazon.com is probably one of the most advanced Online Store Datacenters. If you compare it with what it was 5 years ago it went quite a way... It's more then one store as it "re-sells" for ToysRus and many many others so I would assume they effectively sell a few million products. As it's not something you can load on a shared host, you would have to put development, servers, other architecture, support staff etc into the pricing which will end up again in the millions.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 29 March 2005 at 3:40pm

Apprently they only got into annual profit last year, or two years ago.