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Amazon evolved zShops into the successful Amazon Marketplace by learning from their previous failures. They realized that their customers expected to pay a low, fixed price on Amazon, unlike the bidding system on eBay. They also found that zShops was too complicated for third-party sellers and customers. Using these insights, they were able to create a more user-friendly and successful platform, which became the Amazon Marketplace.
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Amazon Auctions, Bezos' answer to eBay, taught him that customers expected to pay a low, fixed price on Amazon but had a different mindset when bidding on eBay that didn't translate. The failed zShops proved too complicated for third-party sellers and customers but later evolved into the wildly successful Amazon Marketplace.
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