eBay vs Amazon Competing-Product Mapping for a Seller
Client Snapshot A US seller operating on both Amazon and eBay across ~3,000 SKUs in tools and hardware. The Challenge The seller knew their prices differed between the two platforms, but had no idea whether they were competitive on either. The blocker was that the two marketplaces describe the same product completely differently — different titles, different attribute schemas, different identifiers, and on eBay, frequently no identifier at all. Without a reliable map between "my Amazon ASIN" and "the eBay listings selling the same thing," no competitive analysis was possible. Objectives Map each SKU to its competing listings on both platforms Surface price, shipping cost and total landed cost per competitor Identify SKUs where the seller was materially over- or under-priced The Actowiz Approach We treated this as an entity-resolution problem rather than a scraping problem. Listings were collected from both platforms and passed through a matching pipeline: ident...