Wayfair: CastleGate vs Amazon FBA Product-Market Fit
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The expert is a Wayfair supplier and has 5 years of experience utilizing CastleGate. Her experience as a supplier to several home goods retailers (Overstock, Wayfair, Amazon, and others) has provided her with an understanding of the benefits and costs associated with dealing with all major retailers in the US home furnishing space.
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I'm thinking about the demand forecasting, which seems like such an important piece of this. I'm not sure how they could even come up with a demand forecast for a company or SKUs that have never been in CastleGate. I'm not sure what they would base that on.
We receive monthly emails from CastleGate, requesting us to send products that have sold well on Wayfair. They wouldn't suggest sending anything to CastleGate that hasn't sold or has sold very little on Wayfair. This ties back to the idea that we need to grow on the Wayfair side, so we have more options of what we can send and can send in larger quantities.
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