Amazon

Definition

Amazon.com is an American-based multinational e-commerce company. It is America's largest online retailer.


You can buy from many different departments such as books, music, toys and electronic equipment and much more.

Features

Like e-bay people can also sell items they no longer want. So as well as it being a business to user online retail site it is also a user to user retail site.


For example this CD can be bought at the normal retail price of £4.99 but also at a lower price of £3.18.

Other businesses can advertise on Amazon which normally change as to the item you are viewing. For example when I was viewing the CD above an advert for headphones came up as it is relevant. This acts as an income to Amazon as the adverts posted by companies always cost.

Amazon also has many other features such as a money converter and wish lists.

Also a lot of the products have reviews so if you are comparing two products you can see which one other buyers prefer and what is good and bad about each product.

Also you can preview the album before you buy it and if you only like a few of the songs you can download them indivdually as mp3 downloads.

Another feature of Amazon is that there is a tab on the site which tells you what the best deals of the week are on the site such as if a television had been reduced in price it would appear on this page of the site. As it is called 'Deal of the Week' it is updated each week so it is always new and up to date.