I like being motivated by Sales, Accomplishments, Awards, Winning and Recognition. Like many of you I spend a lot of time planning, for me 80% planning and 20% work.
The two worst things about DD+7; It is not the Delivery Date plus 7 Days. I am not going to review that here however, one example… We have had a few orders where people order three things by FBA. The entire order shows as “Pending, Awaiting payment verification” yet one or two items ship, the one they can not ship sits there. The order does not get released to DD+7, until the last one is gone.
I have gone from motivated to…
Just one example not the main point of this thread.
First the AI then Actual Intelligence…
What are the total annual sales by independent third-party sellers on Amazon?
Total annual sales by independent third-party sellers on Amazon account for over 60% of all physical merchandise sold in Amazon’s stores. In 2025, third-party sellers generated over $400 billion in estimated merchandise sales.
What does the average amount a company make on sweeping accounts for 7 days?
A company’s 7-day earnings on a sweep account depend entirely on its surplus cash balance and the 7-day SEC yield. Assuming current money market and bank sweep yields of 3.50% to 4.50%, a business with an excess balance of $100,000 will earn approximately $67 to $86 per week.
What is the average amount a company makes on a FDIC sweep account for 7 days?
The average amount a company earns on an FDIC-insured sweep account depends heavily on the yield structure of the account. Rates range from low-yield standard bank deposit sweeps to higher-yield money market or treasury sweep networks 3.00% to 5.00%.
Now to a bit of Actual Intelligence, AKA AI…
Therefore;
400 Billion or $400,000,000,000.00 a year over 7 days (rounding up one half penny) is $57,142,857,142.86. Over 57 Billion in Sweep Invested every week. At 5% that would be $25,562,468.55 a week. Over $25.5 Million made off the backs of sellers each week with DD+7 and sweep accounts. They likely get better than that since they would be sweeping $400 billion a year.
Source, my brain trained on a slide rule, and my Partner/Wife’s brain headhunted out of our company four years ago to the 10th largest bank. Plus our combined community service of over 63 years on community boards. Including local and regional boards, me as chairman for many years and for her, also Town Treasurer for 18 years. Thus an understanding of Sweep Accounts based on this experience. Now we may be off by a Million/Billion or so, but chump change to Amazon.
That is $1,329,248,364.60 or nearly $1.4 Billion a year!
…and be sure to say, “Thank You Sir, May I Have Another.”
