Amazon Says It Plays Fair with Third Party Sellers

by: Bparty

No none of them are fair with sellers.
Ebay - look into how sales cut in half (for me every April starts a new downturn) every year for years now.  I feel I am paying for my items to be seen. It should be illegal for them to take my money and then do otherwise, no matter what is in their policy.
They should be required, if they want to collect money or hold money in trust for  sellers, to have the same requirements to met that any bank would and the same regulations to live up to.  The foolishness that goes on with these companies is just ridiculously dishonest.
Etsy- Etsy makes so many monetary mistakes with customers money it should just not be allowed to be in this type of business anymore.
Amazon - Again, I am paying Amazon for a service which is to provide for fair exposure to my listings.  If you put zero sellers in the buy box or  "sold out" until 2 months from now while you have several sellers with in stock items that will never be seen because your ad says it is sold out for 2 more months.  
When you have bots looking for unknown issues and then remove a listing and ask a seller to jump through hoops for these unknown issues and refuse after asking specifically what is the issue through many many emails and never to receive an honest answer, this is a problem.  They should be required to specify the line or word that the listing has erred on and then what the error of policy is exactly and what needs to be done specifically to remedy it.  
I feel that my payouts from amazon seem fine.  But, I have heard many stories from others where they just keep the sellers money, sometimes for unknown reasons.  This seems completely illegal and again, they should have to answer to an actual banking regulator for this.  There should be no way for them to actually keep another sellers money past a reasonable return period.
Walmart - Walmart provides the worst accounting of sales and payouts of any site.  They also give minimal reasoning for non listed items, but better than most in this case.  
On all these sites, sellers are penalized for things beyond their control and in some cases these sites want to charge them money for things that are beyond sellers control - this should not be legal.
Maybe there needs to be a special oversite for these large marketplaces.  Maybe a little bureaucracy would do them good, since they always want to impose their bureaucracy on us.

by: COVID-19

These bigwigs should look into how eBay steals sellers' unique photos and written descriptions for other (lazy and unoriginal) sellers to use.  It is very galling to spend your time and resources on your own photos and detailed description only to have some lazy scums click on "Sell One Just Like This" and they never have to spend more than a minute on a listing.  eBay is forcing you sellers to help your competitors.  Yeah yeah yeah, I already know what the eBay sycophants will say "You agree to this in the ToS."  Still doesn't make it right.    

by: thehosst

Ina, the issue is not just the companies and executives but the most damaging issues happen at botton-feeder inside fraudsters working at Amazopoly, Google and eBay.

I was ask 1,500 a month to stop my product feed monthly suspension, by someone  who called me right after I was told by a google merchant staff: hang up now, someone will call you in a few minutes to help you with your issues"

Same experience with eBay and with Amazon we all know the same scams. The top executives are too lazy or too stupid to fix those big issues and we the small sellers are suffering the power of GIGANT companies, perpetrated by 1 dollar a day starving scammers in their 'customer service" departments.

I don't see any articles or comments on this subject. Buy hey, just wait for the comment of the very same rats saying "this never happens"

by: The End

We MUST take control of these privately run market places via Government.
Erase these aberrations and replace them with SANE, Clean government Control.
No funny business.
It's time.
No Golden Parachutes for morons, no stalking of monitors, no catering to out-of-country entities.
This will put Everyone on the level playing field.
AND it will bring down the cost of selling on these platforms.
We can ALL have Fun again   :o)

by: Mark4

Amazon has been creating monopolies for their "Brands"  What happens is the 3rd party sellers get hit constantly with "suspected intellectual property right violations" even when they are not. Amazon is even hitting sellers who sell used items which is protected under the 1983 Supreme Court Case. After amazon hits sellers with these they suspend their accounts, thus getting rid of competition for the "Brand" and creating a monopoly for that brand. Just look at Apple.   We have had this happen to us alot, each time we pass the info on to our congressman and their attorneys who are collecting data on this. There are law firms specilizing in sellers who are victims  of this treatment by amazon. If this happens to you, contact your state congress folks. Also you can move your inventory very easily now that Walmart has partnered with Shopify.  Walmart is not playing this game, at least not yet.  

by: toolguy

@COVID-19

The title doesn't mention eBay, it's about Amazon.

How about trying to stay on Topic! ~ LOL

by: toolguy

I have NO idea what Amazon does or doesn't do.

I DON'T buy there and I DON'T sell there.

I refuse to make Jeff Bezos any richer then he already is.

by: RKTOYS

This just in, Joseph Stalin says he's fair with Siberian gulag residents.