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Certainly, it doesn&#8217;t seem as if this is going to be a business model with a lot of long term survivors, so a good bit of this funding is going down the toilet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/rxQ8nhJbCMg\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/rxQ8nhJbCMg\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out buying up Amazon marketplace sellers is huge business at the moment, with VC firms flooding the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1065062828.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lA9R-73","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129,"url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=129","url_meta":{"origin":437,"position":0},"title":"Amazon Prime Reading","date":"October 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A new benefit has cropped up for Amazon Prime subscribers - now they have unlimited access to a subset of the Kindle Unlimited library, meaning free reading, most importantly of magazines like National Geographic Traveler and Popular Mechanics. 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