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Amazon Prime Day sales up 30% for third-party merchants

Published Wed, Jul 13, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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AMAZON.COM Inc said Prime Day sales from third-party merchants surged 30 per cent compared with a year earlier, fuelled largely by international demand.

While US sales appeared to start slowly on Tuesday, hampered by technical glitches, the world's largest e-commerce company built momentum on the summertime promotion it created last year to entice shoppers to subscribe to its US$99-a-year Amazon Prime membership.

"Led by strong growth internationally, we are seeing more than 30 per cent…

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