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Updated October 2026

Selling Amazon seller data for AI training: what it's worth and who buys it

Independent and sourced. We feature companies that pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it. How we earn

Mercor lists listings and inventory logs for retail and e-commerce, the two records an Amazon seller lives by.1

Match my sellerWhat is it worth?
Marketplace seller team planning an inbound shipment beside stacked cartons

An Amazon seller does not run the storefront, the customer relationship or most of the reviews. What its team does produce is the operating record behind its catalog: listing drafts and A/B tests, keyword research, PPC bid decisions, supplier negotiations and POs, inbound shipment plans to fulfillment centers, and the long, careful cases opened with Seller Support when a listing is suppressed or an account health warning appears.

That makes a marketplace seller's data different from a Shopify brand's. There are fewer customer conversations, because the marketplace handles most of them, and much more supplier, inventory and listing work. Mercor names listings and inventory logs for e-commerce. Polyshares names retail and buys Slack, spreadsheets and ERP exports, which is where most seller teams plan.

This page is for Amazon-first and multichannel marketplace sellers with ten or more staff, including teams spread across the US and overseas sourcing offices. It covers what a week of seller records looks like, which buyers fit, why records the marketplace generates are a separate question from those your team wrote, and what to ask before licensing anything.

US online stores and mail-order firms with 10+ employees (marketplace sellers have no separate count)

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US online stores and mail-order firms with 10+ employees (marketplace sellers have no separate count)

of Mercor's three e-commerce record types are a seller's core: listings and inventory logs

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of Mercor's three e-commerce record types are a seller's core: listings and inventory logs

O*NET email score for shipping and inventory clerks; purchasing agents 100

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O*NET email score for shipping and inventory clerks; purchasing agents 100

buyers and purchasing agents are a benchmark occupation

GDPval5

buyers and purchasing agents are a benchmark occupation

Worth

What a seller's data may be worth

Set for a typical seller, 18 staff and 7 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.

Buyers

Which buyers want this data

Buyers whose own published rules fit Amazon and marketplace sellers. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.

Featured partners

  1. #2 in our ranking

    7.4 out of 10

    Polyshares

    Buys Slack, spreadsheets and ERP exports, where seller teams plan reorders and track suppliers, with no headcount floor.10,11

    Typical payout
    $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says8
    Fees
    None, Polyshares says12
    Time to get paid
    An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days13

    Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.14,15

    Get matchedRead the reviewVisit Polyshares

Everyone else we reviewed

By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.

  1. #3 in our ranking

    7.1 out of 10

    Mercor

    Names retail and e-commerce and lists listings and inventory logs, the core of a marketplace seller's work.16,1

    Typical payout
    Mercor does not publish a range17
    Fees
    None, Mercor says18
    Time to get paid
    By wire 2 to 4 weeks after signing19

    Watch out for: It confirmed a cyberattack in 2026, and class actions followed.20,21

    Read the review

  2. #4 in our ranking

    7.0 out of 10

    Nyne AI

    Names NetSuite, QuickBooks and Asana, which many sellers use for POs, landed costs and launch plans.2

    Typical payout
    $100K or more, Nyne says22

    Watch out for: Pays only after the dataset is accepted, and publishes no timeline.23

    Read the review

We feature buyers that pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it. How we earn. No buyer publishes prices by industry, so within each group the order is the same as in our main ranking.

Who wants this

Do buyers want Amazon and marketplace sellers?

No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.

  • Troveo puts retail or e-commerce in its third of four demand tiers: "Standard buyer demand for your industry."24
  • Polyshares takes retail and ecommerce, without marking it premium.25

Which buyers take a seller your size

Shown for 18 staff, a typical seller. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.

  • micro1We can introduce you

    30+ employees (its partnership page says 30 to 200)26,27

    Too small at 18 staff

  • PolysharesWe can introduce you

    No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more28

    No size floor

  • ModeWe can introduce you

    20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)29

    Too small at 18 staff

  • PewterWe can introduce you

    20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)30,31,32

    Too small at 18 staff

  • GreppedWe can introduce you

    No headcount minimum stated33

    No size floor

  • VentraWe can introduce you

    30+ US employees and 3+ years of records34

    Too small at 18 staff

  • Mercor

    None stated35

    No size floor

  • Troveo

    No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2036

    No size floor

  • Nyne

    20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years37

    Too small at 18 staff

  • Endless

    Roughly 30+ employees38

    Too small at 18 staff

  • Supersoniq

    50+ employees and 5+ years39

    Too small at 18 staff

What buyers value

What in a seller's records buyers value

What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.

What in a seller's records buyers value
DataWhere it livesWhy a buyer values itRaise with the buyer
Listing drafts, tests and revisionsSeller Central exports, listing tools, Google DocsTitles, bullets and images rewritten against conversion results, the record Mercor names as listings.Nothing specific
Supplier negotiations and purchase ordersEmail, WeChat or Slack Connect, ERPPrice, MOQ and lead-time negotiation with factories, and the quality issues that followed.Supplier names and confidential pricing.
Inventory and inbound shipment plansInventory planner, spreadsheetsReorder points, fulfillment center limits and stockout decisions, written down week by week.Nothing specific
Seller Support and account health casesSeller Central case log, emailLong written appeals and plans of action, with the marketplace's response.Whether the marketplace's terms treat case text as its data.
Advertising bid and keyword decisionsAd console exports, spreadsheets, SlackWhy bids were raised or cut, with the results the team was looking at.Marketplace-provided reports that may be covered by its terms.

A week of records

A week of data at a seller

  • Monday: a suppressed listing, a case opened, and a written fix sent with new images.
  • Tuesday: the reorder sheet updated for 300 SKUs and four POs sent to two factories.
  • Wednesday: a factory reports a two-week delay, and the team agrees in Slack which SKUs to air-freight.
  • Thursday: a title and bullet rewrite on the top listing after a week of falling conversion.
  • Friday: ad bids reviewed by campaign, with a note on each change and the reason for it.

Process

How it works with each buyer

In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.

Polyshares

What it buys
Slack, email, Drive, CRM, tickets, design files, calls and ERP10
Offer range
$100K-$2M+8
Personal data
A third-party PII partner scrubs data before it is licensed40
Excluded data
Data held on behalf of clients is excluded41
Fees
Charges sellers no fee12
Time to offer and payment
Offer 1-2 weeks after intake; paid Net 30-6013

Mercor

What it buys
Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Confluence, Salesforce, GitHub, Drive, Notion and 100+ other tools42
Who qualifies
Not published
Offer range
Not published17
Fees
No fees18
Security
SOC 2 Type II43
Time to payment
Wire 2-4 weeks after signing19

Nyne AI

What it buys
QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana and Jira2
Who qualifies
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years in business37
Offer range
$100K or more22
Offer policy
Says it beats written offers from other buyers44

Selling or closing

Selling or closing your seller? License its data first

When a marketplace business is sold to an aggregator, the buyer takes the listings, the inventory and the supplier relationships. The internal record of how the business was run is a different set of records, and some of what a seller holds was generated by the marketplace. Before a sale, ask each licensing company which records it would include, and whether a license can close before the business changes hands.1,2

Selling your business Closing your company

FAQ

Amazon and marketplace sellers: questions, answered

  • Fewer customer conversations, more supplier and listing work. The marketplace handles most customer contact, so a seller's record is listings, inventory and POs, which Mercor names as listings and inventory logs for e-commerce.1

  • It records purchasing judgment, and buyers and purchasing agents are an occupation in OpenAI's GDPval benchmark. Purchasing agents also score 100 out of 100 on O*NET's email scale, so this is written work by nature.5,4

  • The usual starting point is what your team wrote about listings, cases and plans. Reports the marketplace generates are a question for the buyer. Nyne says exporting a record does not by itself grant permission to license it.45

  • Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more employees, and a few state no minimum. Some count only US W-2 staff, so overseas contractors may not count; ask each buyer how it counts headcount.26,37,46,47,48,36

  • No buyer publishes a price for marketplace sellers. Published ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims. A seller with several years of linked listing, inventory and supplier records has more to show than one with only sales reports.7,49,50,51

  • Yes, ask for it. Nyne says names, identifiers and customer-specific details are removed before release and that you can exclude data categories entirely.45,52

  • Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.

  • Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.

Before you sign

Questions to talk through with your buyer

Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.

Questions for this kind of business

  • Which marketplace reports and case records are excluded under its seller terms?
  • How are supplier names and confidential prices removed?
  • If the business is sold to an aggregator, what happens to a license signed before?
  • Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
  • How does a license affect a sale of the business: reps and warranties, change of control, earnouts, exclusivity?

Questions for any buyer

  • Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
  • Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
  • Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
  • How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
  • What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
  • Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
  • Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?

How this page was made

Figures come from the published sources listed below, and what a buyer says about itself is its own claim. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote. Drafted with AI help from our research, then checked against each source. Updated October 2026.

We feature companies that pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it. See how we earn and how we rank. This site does not give legal, tax or financial advice.

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