May 13 2018, 12:01

It turns out, on eBay there are one billion (!) “live” listings (ebuyinc). On Amazon – about 600 million. In December last year, Amazon had 200 million visitors per day (comscore), which is roughly one and a half times the population of Russia per day. Revenue in 2017 was $177 billion, and this year it is expected to reach $400 billion (hmm; source-bloomberg). That means, in one year, Amazon will surpass Russia (exports in 2017 were ~$360 billion, of which just over a third were non-commodity non-energy goods).