Amazon Just Destroyed ALL FBA Sellers - Why You Should Be Worried

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[@MrXlee1967]

Can you make a video on the alternative? Like what should we do instead of listing on amazon. And can you list on amazon without joining FBA? Would this not remove a lot of the fees, or is this a big negative.

[@taramcdonough3599]

I'm wondering: Since Amazon "changes are changes to your original contract (is it a contract when you first signed up to sell on amazon? most likely). then you have to wonder are you grand fathered in on the orginal contract and ALL of these new changes can be either negotiated with amazon to avoid them or you are protected under law that you are "grandfathered" in and these changes (after the first time you signed up to sell on amazon) and do not apply to you. That these contract changes only apply legally to the new people that want to sell on amazon. Is there a "grandfather clause law that protects sellers prior to these new changes that are protecting Amazon? Meaning Amazon is violating state/federal grandfather clause laws) this is what you need to check into. Grandfather clause laws are very common. For example: A condo board can make changes to their by-laws ie only allowing say 8 people in a vacation rental condo...however, if the board changes this by-law and says they are only going to allow 6 people in a vacation rental condo at a time, this new change only affects the new condo owers (new buyers in the condo building) after the by-law was made. Most condo boards will not tell their condo owners about the grand father clause law. Also, the sellers at amazon need to join forces in a organization (union basically) where you each pay into the pot to higher lawyers to fight these changes against amazon as a Joined force. This would give the power back to the sellers on Amazon not Amazon. The fees could be very low say $10 per year. This will allow for all the millions of sellers to have the same lawyer(s) that fight for all of the sellers. This would give back the negotiations powers to the sellers & take the power away from Amazon & their interest only. To take back power Keep this example in mind: All customers of a store have the power to say no to high prices just buy not buying these products. When there is a boycott of certain goods or services in numbers (such as say potatoe chips raising their prices from $4 to $8 people will boycott these goods which will force the manufacturing company to lower their prices again otherwise the company will be boycotted & eventually go out of business due to low sales) This applys to the amazon sellers having the power when joining forces together where you can negotiate or refuse any new change that Amazon forces on sellers. I believe when you sign up for amazon that that is your legal contract. Which means you can negotiate on that contract. The power for 1 seller is joining forces with ALL the sellers on Amazon. Power in numbers (all the sellers). keep in mind Amazon is very manipulative when it comes to copying a high selling product. Hence why they would want to get a sellers manufacturing info where they could have that same company copy the sellers product put the Amazon name on the product and seller it at the top of the list and put that seller out of business. This happened with a guy that sold back packs (I watched a vd on this). This guy was on the top of the sellers list for selling a specific backpack that is until Amazon Literally copied his back pack and pushed his store of the first few pages and put the Amazon store in the number one spot on the first page. SHameful of Amazon and seems to be against some law dont you thing. Amazon is not a ethical company. This is where the sellers need to join forces and force them into being a ethical company. Thanks for your vd.

[@David-p9y9c]

Can someone establish a website clearinghouse of independent online sellers? Just a listing of the various seller’s websites and general information on what they sell. A Yellow Pages of items.

[@SethiSahib]

@mywifequitherjob Hi dear the same kind of harrassing sellers policies are applied in Amazon India too since 2021... I'm a successful Prime seller with Amazon india, with over 150 listings that are live with rock solid account matrix. .. but since 2021 they have applied a secret policy which they don't agree it's regional search... And the regional search is that buyers across India can mostly see the products of nearest FBA centre , means my products are very less or not visible to buyers in south west east and central India as I'm selling from north india and sales are badly impacted... And lakhs of sellers are affected by this policy which they deny that it exists. Beside this Easyship the shipping services owned by Amazon is becoming pathetic with issues like non pick-up, misbehave staff, stealing on items and buyers are delivered compromised packages is becoming common since last few months... Not just that Claims and reimbursement for damages are becoming pathetic and headache for us the sellers as they are taking much longer time then used be in 2-3days few months ago, beside mostly being denied even with fault of amazon is clearly visible. You can cross check All of these things in seller forums page.. where sellers are daily reporting such issues... Yes stealing of items is also become fashion here with item's send to FBA as mentioned in sellers fourm by follow sellers of india.. so we didn't send our inventory to FBA. Gosh amazon will become a sinking ship 🚢 soon. 🤬😡

[@missrose0077]

Releasing financials would certainly be troublesome for retail theft rings who sell stolen goods on Amazon.

[@weiyuquan2425]

Amazon is no longer stabbing from behind, it’s stabbing you from the front

[@TinkerBTea]

It needs dethroned.

[@eComCatalystCo]

Couldn't have said it better

[@lyndawest923]

Time to respond accordingly. Shop elsewhere and establish your own website and create a marketing plan. Bring back small business support, independent of Amazon.

[@JonathanMorris777]

No, it's found a way to stab from both sides.

[@SethiSahib]

Exactly... But with smile 😅

[@woodentoyscom]

Selling on Amazon is like being in an abusive relationship.

[@julianthompson9824]

As a seller for many years on there this is the most concise and accurate resume I’ve ever read!

[@MrXlee1967]

@@julianthompson9824 is it not possible to not use FBA? Could you not ship and store the items you're self? Or does amazon make this difficult or impossible? I've seen more and more items from amazon lately, seems like there must be a reward/profit share for employees to find items amazon can sell themselves. I am doing research to try and start my own business but these all seems alarming.

[@vivisects-and-regicide]

So is working there…

[@bondjovi4595]

Buying on Amazon is like being a battered woman that needs to seek a safe shelter.

[@BuiltInception]

1000%

[@bardnightingale]

That's ok. Once I find the item I want on Amazon, I then go online and try to find the same seller or similar product. How a multi-billionaire can keep screwing the people that make his business work is beyond me.

[@fepeerreview3150]

Thank you. I ended all connection with Amazon 5 years ago. I haven't missed it once since then.

[@Zimbob2424]

I do the same thing and I find it cheaper most of the time

[@fedupamerican296]

There are a lot of stupid and or lazy people out there.

[@viewtifuljon8105]

I just look at the sellers name. Going to their own website you can normally save money, I do the same with eBay.

[@Hansulf]

For real

[@deadcell1]

I am an Amazon delivery driver and I can tell you that Amazon hires a bunch of people in their Fulfillment centers who cannot read or speak English and these people have no idea what they are doing. Their mistakes cause the drivers a ton of headaches because we are the ones who have to interact with the customer when they mess up.

[@Dianna-r2w]

Hyde

[@Jaxmusicgal23]

So DEI hires are making this worse?!

[@Petesworkshop2225]

Na.... I hate Amazon but never blame the field workers.

[@cpnoboat7659]

😅 so, now the workers are to blame? My goodness, it's really easy to take advantage of you, and then you're even thankful Open your eyes, man!

[@keekers]

I absolutely adore our regular Amazon delivery driver. We have never had a single substitute driver who is any good.

[@nancydeforest1533]

I sold books on Amazon for a while. They started telling me which books I could sell; told me to delete books mostly to do with the South and the Confederacy. When they told me to delete a book about Lincoln, I closed my account and don’t buy anything on Amazon.

[@kueichenglee7583]

Wowwwwaaaaaaa

[@lyleg.9192]

I think you have a very big lawsuit on your hands you just need to find an attorney just right for the case.

[@Petesworkshop2225]

Then how come I can go to Amazon right now and choose from several Lincoln books? Even a Amazon's choice licon book!

[@FullyYoked]

who do you use now?

[@fishhuntadventure]

@@Petesworkshop2225 Probably the banned books were revisionist history.

[@calmingtruth]

Yep, I created 2 businesses accounts. One just disappeared after we sent in 100 used books. They said we don’t exist. The first business, Amazon stopped me from sending in books. One day I was making 5K profit per month, then sorry. Your business is shut down because a customer said a used book was fake. I purchased the book from my county Library. No way to appeal or talk to anyone. Crazy. Glad I found something better to do. Amazon turned out to be a joke for me.

[@suzihazlove4979]

What are you doing now?

[@SethiSahib]

Show them there e-mails of account, and orders.

[@gravethebeyond]

5000 a month!!! Wow. That's awesome. 💪🎉✌️👍

[@noman-s6l]

​@@SethiSahib"computer says no."

[@dimitarpavlov3955]

You cant have two AmZ accounts unless pre-approved on basis where each sells entirely different products. You are lucky if both of your accounts are not shut down for good.

[@dirtisbetterthandiamonds]

Theres a saying in the ranching business: never take your cattle to a butcher that has a store out front.

[@PaddleFrogs]

@@dirtisbetterthandiamonds that's a good one.

[@JS-jh4cy]

Sounds like the small business person profits are been cut to thousands of prices of nothing

[@rwizard]

My late father-in-law raised cattle in Texas, he would have enjoyed that one. I always liked going out there and helping out. I was known at the local coffee shop as "the useful son-in-law", a nickname that pleased me. We miss him, and miss those days.

[@krashanb5767]

Why?

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Much like never get an appraisal from someone who is offered the sale.

[@rohankm]

I closed my prime membership one year back and must say that was the best decision ever. No more impulsive purchases. Support your local stores.

[@cekz5199]

​@@rc6717 Lol opposite is true, amazon mostly sells plastic junk. Also amazon no longer tries to be lower priced as they control your mind so don't need the low prices anymore. Been that way for about 10 years honestly.

[@josephmarzullo]

You end up paying more for less options.

[@TheEnterthedreaming]

My local stores don't carry 90% of what I order. No one has anything on the shelves anymore.

[@fepeerreview3150]

@@TheEnterthedreaming I stopped buying from Amazon 5 years ago, completely closed my account. The large majority of what I need on a daily basis I can get in local stores for reasonable prices. Occasionally I order something online from a distant retailer. When I do, I order through their own website. I've found a few favorite retailers that carry the specific brands l like for things like clothing or hobby materials that are hard to find locally. I have never regretted leaving Amazon and I have found that in most cases the prices I pay are competitive with similar quality products on Amazon.

[@marcd6897]

@@TheEnterthedreamingyes, but they can order it for me, very often at the same speed and for less money.

[@reaktorleak89]

Amazon lost a $160 order. I thought I got screwed but I got compensated. Now I’m worried for the sellers who I buy things from.

[@angelachouinard4581]

As a former CPA who also did forensic accounting this just makes me disgusted. I understand in detail what this is doing to small businesses even as I get Amazon ads glorifying how they support them. I am really trying to buy direct from seller these days.

[@adaptiveplexus]

Amazon has turned into a complete piece of sh!t

[@patrickcardon1643]

Like its owner... screwing over customers - harder and harder to find products that match your search criteria unless you search for a specific title or product by name and pushing worthless chinese crap ... and screwing over sellers by sinking their business with gigantic costs, no control, no client service and copying their products

[@bondjovi4595]

The 💩 sellers have brought it to its current state of glory.

[@madjunir]

Amazon has now become the wild jungle they were named after.

[@3s0t3r1c]

nah, resellers should not be allowed on amazon.

[@ScottLuvsRenFaires]

Amazon has not "turned into" anything. They were a complete piece of sh!t from day one because Jeff Bezos wanted it that way. They just hid the fishhook from you inside that tasty piece of bait they dangled in your face.

[@Piano_Castle]

Rich corporations sh*tting on those who made them rich... THAT never happens...

[@BlackJesus8463]

lolz

[@morganzweifel2488]

JB sure has forgotten how he started selling books from his small office.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Happens so frequently there is a word for it, 'enshitification'. Pretty much the whole internet is going the same way.

[@BartlettTFD]

@@schrodingerscat1863 AND, add to that, online commerce has driven so many brick-and-mortar companies out of business‼️

[@caroljohnston4345]

They should know better not to bite the hands that fed them.

[@TomThatcher-wi2fj]

I work for a trucking company with 9000 trucks and we will not work with Amazon. They want our drivers available 24/7/365 without notice. They pay below market rates. They want to fine us for things out of our control. The road is shut down, they will fine us.

[@KLondike5]

If you deliver packages for them they will penalize your rating and ability to work by all kinds of nonsense errors in their system or things out of your control. Even if a package is stolen, it's marked against the delivery driver because the customer didn't receive it.

[@hiiipompom]

I signed up for Amazon Flex a couple years back when I was also doing instacart and doordash. I live in a state with a smaller population so often you would have to work through all 3 each week to make it work due to there not being a high enough volume available from each of them to stick to one. Well, I guess after getting hired on to flex I could sign up for multiple shifts throughout the week with a guaranteed pay. Seemed like an okay idea but, I was wrong. The amount of gas and time it took to deliver packages in a "3.5" hour shift was a joke. I didn't think of the gas part being all that bad since I paid my own gas upfront for the other jobs. The difference was those jobs I new what city I was going to be in and most of the time before I accepted a delivery I knew how far away I would be traveling from the store/restaurant. NOT with Amazon Flex, you have no idea where you are going. I tried it 2x and never will ever do it again. The first time it took 27 minutes to get to the fulfillment center from my house. Then you get your palette of packages. You have to hurry and organize them in your trunk from lowest to highest number on the package and it helped if you marked them out. None of this was in their training videos. Then drive to the location to start delivering. Side note the Amazon Maps app/tracker is garbage is so glitchy and constantly timed out. My mistake was thinking they would keep the flex drivers closer to the distribution centers for deliveries. Oh no! They sent me from the distribution center in Salt Lake City by the airport all the way up to Park City, a mountain town, on a 5 p.m. shift. that city was easily a 30 minute drive away and it is a very spread out city. I was supposed to deliver packages to business' that closed at 5p.m. but I couldn't leave the packages at their doorstep, they would get stolen. There were apartment buildings that had no where for me to park and since I wasn't in an Amazon marked truck I ended up parking far away to avoid tickets. I was unable to deliver to of the packages and had to return them back to the distribution center before going home. I think they paid me around $70 for that shift and I spent half of it on gas and had to submit why I went over 3.5 hour delivery window even though I wasn't getting paid any extra for it. It was a nightmare. The second time the story was similar, except I went to their North Salt Lake distribution center and they have no where for you to park. The center closed at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday so when we all got their to load up our cars the person in charge on overseeing us rushed everyone and said we couldn't organize our packages. You don't see where you are going until you scan the palette and take it to your car btw. That 2nd time they decided to send me to a city called Hooper which was 34 minute drive before I even started delivering packages. I got sent out to the middle of nowhere and one street was so sketch to deliver to in the dark that I chose to return the package. Anyway I was so pissed on the way there I called the hotline number for Flex workers and demanded more money or I was driving back and leaving the packages at the door of the distribution center. They did give me more. Not enough to make it feel really worth it, but enough to cover some gas. Sorry for the rant. Amazon is the absolute worst.

[@yanicyoda4762]

bezos has robotic people working in india/philppines .they will just shut you down for minor things.And Amazon priority now is For Cheap sellers in india and china .US sellers cant compete nomore .They are actually shutting down shop left and right

[@AfrocentrikQueen]

Wowww 😮what an abuse of power. Glad people are figuring them out and sharing this with the public.

[@edgarcorreiamelo]

AI is doing that.... On the other side they just repeat what their system shows... AI don't care about your business, about humans....

[@vainwretch]

Amazon should not be allowed to compete with anyone that sells on Amazon.

[@yanicyoda4762]

we Need to call our congress people .They Need to look into it ASAP

[@pixality7902]

​@yanicyoda4762 along with everything else that needs reform ASAP. This country is so jacked up and the list of things that need fixing is so long, that we can't even address it all, even if my fellow americans didn't send people to congress, who only care about their ability to leverage their position into money/power.

[@thatoneguy378]

This!!!

[@thatoneguy378]

​@@yanicyoda4762 this!!! Contact the Ftc. And contact your state senators and state reps and your states attourney General and file complaints.

[@keithdunwoody1302]

It definitely seems to violate monopoly laws. It's so disgusting to treat people this way.

[@rumannkoch4864]

Same thing eBay is/has been doing to its Sellers for years! eBay always sides with the Buyer, even if you the Seller did no wrong. You can appeal the outcome and win, and still lose the sale... AND the item! Recently I sold a thirty-year old analog tool and the Buyer asked for a refund more than 30 days later - the reason being that it was not accurate as a similar new digital item!. I pointed out that I had done nothing wrong but still offered a 10% refund. The Buyer was not happy and filed a Return with eBay citing 'Listing Not As Described'. Long story short - I won the case, but the Buyer then filed with his credit card company. I sent them all the evidence, yet they did not even respond, and my account was charged back without the Buyer returning my item! So I lost both the sale and the item!

[@blinkinflip]

ebay and amazon are serious corporate tax evaders and should be squashed like the bugs they are.

[@michaelstonebreaker3387]

I've had friends get scammed on antiques before, and I got scammed on PayPal. There's no recourse or appeal.

[@blinkinflip]

@@rumannkoch4864 double claiming is fraud and expressly against eBay’s written policies- for what that’s worth 👍

[@lawrencediggs7957]

Thanks for the tips. I'm not a seller, but I care about the seller's experiences.

[@lyndawest923]

Exactly. I had already reduced Amazon purchasing. I am shopping elsewhere from now on.

[@rosecady6821]

Amazon is run by an evil, greedy man. Why not just stop buying from Amazon completely? The sellers, drivers, and warehouse workers are all getting screwed. How much evidence do you need to make the right choice?

[@cpnoboat7659]

​@@lyndawest923I did that years ago and I don't miss it. Still, I use Amazon to see prices or names of sellers to purchase directly from them outside Amazon.

[@createdtorisetv]

You literally articulated everything my business went through on Amazon. Thousands of dollars down the drain. Amazon sucks. They killed my business. Get out while you still can.

[@beuzilla]

Same here.

[@janellc900]

Months ago I heard about an online platform that has a section for American businesses. Publixsquare or something like that. Do you know about it? I want to find all ways to support individual and small businesses. It's often impossible to find things within a reasonable travel distance. (Due to the wipeout of small local businesses from the pred practices of Amazon, etc.)

[@RandomUser25122]

I got out 2 years ago when they repeatedly told me that my 2 month led stock was aged out so I needed to remove it or sell it within days. They then started charging me fees for old stock even though I produced documents t9 show they confirmed receiving goods only weeks ago. After 2 aged stock fees, I sold off my stock and had them destroy the rest, only to have them inform me once it was done that they’d made a mistake and my stock was indeed not Old stock. Of course, they refused to reimburse me a single penny, so I quit selling with them. Appalling behaviour from a publicly listed company.

[@Gambelina]

Same

[@mrfoameruk]

60% killed my business. Two people were made redundant due to following CS's advice on how to do something. Years of building it up were gone in one second. There was no way to contact them directly about the issue, and when I did manage to get through to someone, I was told I needed to contact them via logging into my account, which I had explained I could not do as that was the issue. Catch 22. They really do hold your life in their hands. They take your money but don't care anything about your business or the damage they inflict.

[@boysatt]

I am a reseller of Amazon products that are liquidated from the warehouse. I buy pallet loads of stuff, mainly automotive and industrial items. I get lots of bulk items of the same product and noticed what seems to be common in their warehouse is barcoding the items wrong. They cover up manufacture barcodes with their own so they can scan and track items easily, but what if they barcoded the all of a certain product wrong? Well I'll tell you, once they notice they just pull it and send it to liquidation. I have literally purchased truckloads of stuff that was inventoried wrong in their system, I can't imagine what the 3rd party seller feels as I pay less that 5 cents on the dollar for them.

[@asphaultassult]

How did you find those items?

[@israelvasquez462]

Where do you buy your liquidation pallets ?

[@vibesmom]

Whoa that’s not good. The sellers barcodes are so important for not running into problems when storing and picking. Bad barcodes slow down everything. I’m interested, how can you tell they’ve covered over your barcodes?

[@LatitudeSky]

And I'm a retail customer who shops at stores run by people like this, who buy liquidation pallets. I see the same thing, where liquidated items have an Amazon barcode that doesn't exist. It's not that they don't still sell the item. I can search for it by name and there it is. But the barcode they put on the products goes nowhere. This and other games I see have really diminished my view of Amazon.

[@Iantrypsk]

They miss label stuff to much because they move inventory around to much to keep up with delivery time and the moving truck is techcally a moving warehouse. Operation scale allows you to do neat stuff, they liquidate like everyone is just that they are huge so mistakes look worst.

[@appleimacdude]

I buy no sugar added jams a lot - frequently, 1 jar is broken. When I contact Amazon, they refund all 8 jars - when all I need refunded is 1 jar. I am sure this screws the seller, and you find in the future that seller does not want to sell to you. Obviously, the option should be there for the purchaser to indicate how many of the items were broken.

[@boedayious4993]

Classic predatory business practices. SEARS used to do this in several ways eventually your business was undercut - squeezed out - taken over. Customer info - supplier info - your product costs must be SECRET AND UNDER YOUR CONTROL. IF NOT eventually you will be out of control of your business and yes -- OUT OF BUSINESS. Love you guyz. You stay in control. UBER type of plat forms transfer all the risks and costs to you and retain all payment customer infomation ❤❤

[@KLondike5]

Good comparison. Uber gets to see the tip before summoning a driver for the UberEats service. They then craft a lower payment for service and blend the tip in to make it look palatable. Only after the delivery is complete, can the driver then see how poorly Uber paid them.

[@amandaann3272]

Basically Amazon can steal your items, pay you pennies for said items? Then turn around & find the items and sell them at full price and keep all the profit! Rich get richer scheme! But Amazon sellers need to Stop selling returned items without checking them! Tired of getting used products!

[@laptech3767]

That's an Amazon issue, Amazon labels return items as new and sells it. -amazon seller

[@leinster22]

They steal the intellectual property and data of its sellers then create their own versions. When that’s accomplished they abandon the seller altogether

[@Dragonited]

There was a nightmare scenario involving that when a reusable diaper seller sold them through Amazon and a customer returned a used one to Amazon that they sold to another customer. The new buyer left a review that they got one with poop inside it and their buissness crasched and Amazon refused for a long time to remove the bad review that was Amazons fault.

[@KLondike5]

Amazon also mixes inventory so even though you bought it new from one seller, the same item is in their inventory at a closer warehouse from somebody else. So they ship you that one instead of the seller you thought you were dealing with in order for you to get the item faster. So the second seller's item you received may be mislabeled on purpose or Amazon may have just ignored that you status just to send it to you faster. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the second reason.

[@carywhozawhastit2024]

just wanted to suggest a correction. Amazon can't "find" something that wasn't lost. They know exactly where your product that they're stealing is!

[@topsteve9898]

I was astonished recently when my partner discovered that for some goods , she is charged more as a Prime member than someone who is not! She found out by accident when ordering something our son found on his (Non Prime) account but when she went to buy it, the identical article / seller etc was over 40% more for her.Having contacted them they initially told her thaty it was a technical glitch but further investigation revealed that this happens frequently.What a way to treat someone who has paid extrafor special services/ treatment.Appalling and then to lie about it???? It makes sense then that sellers will obviously be treated in an offhand manner - it's an ethos....

[@zwiftingwithdemonhunter]

Well, you didn't really believe they were going to give you that free two day shipping for free, did you?

[@donquique1]

I have been shifting some of my purchases to temu and aliexpress after I found out amanzon selling me same items for 50 percent more.

[@topsteve9898]

@@zwiftingwithdemonhunter No I didn't but bear in mind you're already paying for Prime -so in short you pay a fee for 'Special treatment' and in return you're being charged more again for an identical product on top of that...a nice double whammy'Gordon Gekko - 'Greed is good..'Lol

[@nismo2070]

I noticed that as well. A coworker with Prime was looking at a computer and her price was 20 dollars more than what I saw. And I don't even have an amazon account!

[@rosecady6821]

The "free shipping" is not even covered by Amazon. The seller ends up paying for it. So you pay extra to Amazon for free shipping, then they charge the seller for the shipping and charge you more. This is one more way that Bezo pays for his super yacht. Will this get you to stop buying on Amazon?

[@nicolaspeters2555]

Amazon knocking off successful products from their sellers, then advertising on the SAME page at a discount is deceptive and in my mind amounts to stealing. It is a stab in the back and shows you dealing with them is a NO NO.

[@TracyAceAlpha]

Walmart does the same.

[@sajabdul6221]

Amazon is the devil shameless, never buy from them the bigger they are the faster and harder they'll fall.

[@kojoefante]

@@TracyAceAlphait doesn’t make it right ..

[@thesequelvintage]

Ebay does it too, but their end game is to basically increase their per-click advertising fees.

[@stuartd9741]

Amazon has been doing this for a while now. One of many reasons I stay the F away from this toxic platform..

[@christopherstaples6758]

yes I have had that ,an entire pallet get lost but then amazon seems to start selling the same item . ..

[@1day193]

How did you know

[@MrOldclunker]

Time for sellers to use a different platform to sell products. All Amazon was doing all these years was build their own product line based on the best sellers they were shipping for in their first place.

[@monkeywrench1951]

Have a heart… Amazon needs your manufacturing cost so they can get information for the amazon basics products.

[@elisadearmas9778]

You must be kidding

[@blacksheepshepherd]

​@@elisadearmas9778 He is right.. Amazon wants your heart 😂

[@kojoefante]

You’re slow smh

[@helprehouseourvets6919]

​@@elisadearmas9778Of course he was!😂

[@davidagnew8465]

LOL! What we need is FBW, FBT, or even FBG (why have to follow a link when you just found what you were looking for?)!

[@123_bob]

An evil company .. Amazon I refuse to buy from that platform after I spent 4 months working in one of their distribution centres. Real time labour abuses.

[@coleshores]

And they still would prefer to replace you with robots.

[@Chris-ot7lf]

Yeah when I first worked at Amazon back when George Bush was in office I loved the place but once the recession hit they started getting strict. Came up with a pick rate u can get 99% pick rate if it's not a 100 u get wrote up. I was the last group that got hired on full time then after that they never hired a full time employee for the rest of the 2 years I worked there. They bring temps in and then hey get rid of them right before they can collect unemployment that way Amazon don't have to pay benefits.

[@frankcheung99]

I have been selling on Amazon for 3 years now, I used to ship FBA only, now I ship 40% FBA, 60% FBM. 2 months ago I just leased a 4000-square-foot warehouse, next year, I should do 70 or 80% FBM...

[@8180634]

They must have a major theft out the back door problem. They lost a $10k case of my stuff, how does a box that big vanish? I'm the manufacturer and only seller on Amazon, it's not like it got mixed with another sellers inventory.

[@HobbyOrganist]

I had a similar issue with one of hte carriers, I forget if it was DHL or UPS, but I shipped 2 wood crates with sculptures in them out to a customer in California, the tracking showed both arriving at their facility in California, one tracking showed delivery of one crate, the other showed no further progress. I called customer service, they said they would look for the shipment. After a couple of days they told me the shipment was not located and was lost, ok, well, I had paid for EXTRA insurance on each crate beyond the included $100, that's when the biggest shock of all- the CSR told me; "Oh, I'm sorry sir, the insurance ONLY covers damage or breakage" WHAT???? so WTF did I pay an extra fee for $400 more insurance on an item that would not have gotten broken or damaged in a wood crate??? So that's another scam there- you pay for extra insurance on an item you ship out and it ONLY covers damage not theft or loss in THEIR OWN system! I can it not covering "porch pirates" but this shipment vanished in THEIR WAREHOUSE.

[@thomasrogers4250]

I closed my Prime account last week. It's just not worth it anymore with all the hiccups in their system now.

[@OntheWater7988]

Boycott Amazon

[@my1vice]

Boycott the scammers on Amazon instead.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

@@my1vice Amazon themselves are turning into scammers.

[@EricBlue05]

​@@my1vice Amazon IS the scammer, that's the point.🙄

[@stuartd9741]

Agree. its the only thing they care about....

[@fepeerreview3150]

I ended all connections with Amazon 5 years ago and have never regretted it.

[@sentimentalboxer]

A Congressional hearing on this is overdue. How is their scheming even legal?

[@Chubbchubb2313]

Silly you, Amazon owns the politicians. They cruise on Bezo's 250 ft. Yacht.

[@samfromuk796]

Only problem is that Congress is owned by Amazon and other big corps otherwise they would have been on this immediately. There needs to be an Open Source version of Amazon with sellers as the associate members. Temu and Shein need to be taxed extra because they are subsidied by China.

[@theboringchannel2027]

Competition is not illegal.

[@sentimentalboxer]

@@theboringchannel2027 did you watch the video?

[@samfromuk796]

@theboringchannel2027 it's a bit like Google/Microsoft/Apple monopolising search because they own a platform. They have an unfair advantage. It's the same with Amazon they own the platform and are backstabbing their users just like typical Zionists do

[@utah32804]

It's much tougher now to create and sell your own products online. In the past, when Google was more fair with its search results, you could work hard to make a good website and get good visibility on search engines. But that's not the case anymore. Even if your product is the best match for a search, you’ll be lucky to appear in the top 10 pages of results. Good visibility is really hard to achieve because big companies spend tons of money on ads for search terms, and often the links you see are not relevant to what you're looking for. I can't imagine how bad it is when you lose total control of your product advertising and delivery.

[@manahapu]

Companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook... all need to be broken up.

[@stuartd9741]

​@@manahapustop using or spending money with them....

[@RonYates1]

Let's not forget about the weeks or months of time lost as a result of "lost inventory". How much has this cost you in lost sales? Let's also not forget the punishment you'll face if you run out of inventory on FBA and then you lose your Page 1 organic listing position.

[@justinzeller737]

I had a really simple individual working for me, couldn't understand even after being shown what to do again and again. After a few months i realized he would never learn what i needed him to. He got a new job at the amazon warehouse, he told my wife he regularly misses pallets and doesn't get the required products on the trucks going to their shipment centers. He doesn't understand English and doesn't care that he is basically working without knowing what his job is for Amazon warehouse. I was so glad when he got his new job at Amazon because he was no longer my problem, now he's yours.

[@glenthegoalsguy]

I feel that amazon has become the biggest casino in the world for amz sellers. The house always wins.

[@bkrafter]

I used to FBA and stopped after a year with Amazon. That was 12 years ago. It wasn't nearly as bad then as it is now. I would never go back to selling with FBA. Thank you for the update.

[@Chicago48]

AMZ depends on the Chinese sellers vs. American. I guess the Chinese govt subsidizes their retailers.

[@cheezykey1139]

What do you do now

[@Pipping-Hot]

@@cheezykey1139 I work at Walmart now.

[@SWilkin676]

I remember reading an article a while ago that said Amazon warehouses were chewing through workers at an unsustainable rate and would "run out" of workers in a few years. Maybe that is coming true now or they are worried about loss of immigrant labor under the new administration.

[@jasonmoquin]

That is not a rumor, it’s a fact. At the one I work for, as a part-time second job, they practically hire anyone who can pass the drug test. They have to just to have enough bodies to match the peak volume. During the 3 years I’ve been there, over 90% of the new hires leave within a year and they never come back. Over half don’t even make it 3 months. The faces are constantly changing because most people don’t want to stay. I can understand why. I work sortation, in various roles, and it can be a physically demanding and unhealthily repetitive job. It kills your back, arms, legs, and feet even when you follow the safety guidelines. It wears you down, man. How anyone can do this for 40 hours a week I have no clue. And for that matter, they short you hours constantly. Each shift is 4 hours, but they can require you to stay an hour later or …which happens most frequently…make you leave an hour earlier, too. If you work 10 shifts a week(full time) then you could end up only getting 30 hours of pay if they flex down every shift in the slower months. It’s brutal for the full timers that way. If it wasn’t a college town, we wouldn’t have enough fresh hires to replenish the workforce.

[@ratedmark4704]

It'll be 99% automated soon. I would assume a good majority of the issues that he's complaining about is worker related not particularly Amazon's setup. Mislabeled a box by an idiot can cause a multitude of problems. The issue is Amazon probably doesn't have enough detailed information to pinpoint when/where this is occurring or at least staff for overview. My sister-in-law works there yet can't raise her own kids. Bottom of the barrel people who don't give a shit.

[@Iantrypsk]

​@@ratedmark4704You need a bigger warehouse and layouts to store the goods for automation are not space efficient. Is a solved problem, you dont see giants doing it because warehouse space is fucking expensive with the same day 1-3 days shipping culture.

[@visceratrocar]

Warehouse work is one sector that really needs to be fully automated

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Amazon is doing just fine. They pay quite well for mostly low/unskilled labor. Many don't like it because they are expected to work hard and be efficient - anathema for all too many moaners.

[@vmlinuxz]

The most important part of this is that amazon will easily find the profit martin of every product that and knock off or undercut the best products themselves. This is amazon essentially just cutting their sellers throats en masse.

[@markgerard2]

We are in Australia and most sellers here have smartened up and won’t go near Amazon.. Amazon has bent forced to go it alone basically..Why do people think an Amazon business is a great idea…

[@kevinmoore8780]

Same story happened on Ebay years ago. Slowly fees went up and new fees for some services that simply weren't needed. I was never a big seller on Ebay but stopped years ago. I do have some items I want to sell but only those with a high margin and also ones that tend to be small so that shipping isn't so much of a pain. I don't like buying from Temu and AliExpress but I find they often have the same item for less and for low coast items - many items that are not on Amazon as Amazon sellers could never make money on such low margin products. This Christmas I did tend to move directly to companies who made their own products and shipped them directly. That feels so much better for everyone.

[@Alone-in-a-dessert]

Unfortunately, Facebook Market place is the only reasonable place to find local artisans and unwanted items. I hate to do that, but when it is local, you’re not out anything for shipping etc. Just meet in a safe public place during daylight hours only. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@misspat7555]

I remember back in college (20+ years ago now! 👵🏻), I sold some stuff on eBay; it was awesome, just list the items and collect the cash once sold! Then, years later, I’m thinking when I had some baby things from my baby shower I never even ended up using, I tried going on eBay to sell them. I had to pay a fee just to list the items! But what if the item doesn’t sell after a few months? A recipe to lose money! Never sold on eBay again, though I did end up buying niche items my son wanted there a couple times.

[@siquoyiablue]

This is why i never sent them my product. I ship my own products plus i have my own website.

[@Chicago48]

At this rate, the only FBA sellers will be Chinese.

[@jazzcatjohn]

Just curious, how do buyers know about your product?

[@siquoyiablue]

@@jazzcatjohn I run ads via Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. I have social media channels I post on as well. Plus I go on Podcast using Podmatch to talk about my product.

[@tedcash2834]

@@jazzcatjohn the seller can list item only with amazon, when an order comes through via amazon, the seller is notified and then the seller ships the item to the buyer directly

[@Shabbir-A.]

you are smart

[@walkingwiener3571]

We sell your product. Tell you we lost it. If it sells good we produce it ourselves and kick you out! what a great business model. I dont need a prime account. just go out to buy stuff

[@nenew1330]

Its happening on all platorms too. Product becomes trendy then here comes the sharks & whales.

[@Singlesix6]

@@nenew1330 The world has always been like that. There is no real cure for it.

[@ladybistre9596]

I have often wonder why someone hasn't came up with a competitor website for Amazon & Ebay? There is clearly a need for it with so many online sellers. I would totally buy from a seller owned website if I knew of it. I buy a lot on Amazon but only because I dont see any other competition to give my money to.

[@RambleOn.]

Etsy used to be great, but it alienated the best sellers... still prefer to buy from small businesses like that, than Amazon.

[@wobby1516]

Thats what happens when companies get too big, we’ve seen this kind of dishonesty with supermarkets when there buying power is so great that they dictate wholesale pricing. It then requires government intervention to control these behemoths.

[@kathyd9324]

The greed of Bezo is unacceptably disgusting!

[@marcd6897]

The actual problem, it’s not just Bezos alone, but the various ranks working in that company, or do you believe Jeff creates / invents all these pitfalls himself? The number of people across the Amazon corporation helping developing these policies are the true grifters.

[@phillywood8728]

Why blame Bezos? He left Amazon years ago. He doesn't make all these decisions

[@kathyd9324]

@phillywood8728 He stepped down as CEO however he remains as the Executive Chairman.

[@mailus919]

😱 Shipment was delivered to Amazon warehouse but instead of scanning in the units they closed the shipping plan. Thousands of dollars are at stake. Losing my mind, here. Seller support has not been responding. 😢

[@guccifer693]

Have you tried calling? They have a customer service number

[@mailus919]

@guccifer693 They keep saying they'll get back in 24 - 48 hours. Then nothing.

[@KOrnhOliO1]

First thing you'll learn... Amazon seller support is WORTHLESS! Like he said in this video: Email support just sends back canned responses that don't even apply to the questions or problems you are having! I refuse to use them. Phone support is none existent to me anyway. I follow the simple procedure and request a call back. They say on the sure that they are calling me... And the phone never, ever rings! It just says the phone call ended. Doesn't work when trying to get them to call my wife's phone either! No matter what time of day, no matter what I do! It's been like this for about 2 YEARS! When I mention it to chat support, the only support that partially works, they never do a damn thing to actually fix it. I've read on the forums that many others have the same problem. They just don't care! SUPPORT IS NONE EXISTENT! I'VE LOST FULL CASES OF INVENTORY, HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS AT MY COST, A FEW THOUSANDS OF SALES DOLLARS! No help. If I didn't still make money I'd quit. I don't have a solution. Seller Support is a total joke.

[@helprehouseourvets6919]

Have you tried @ing them on X or BlueSky? How about calling your local media for a *complaint* and investigation⁉️That'll certainly get their attention fast! They don't want bad publicity!

[@GramGramGenX-ln5sc]

Praying for you

[@nunya5864]

Someone should start up a similar business like Amazon for the small businesses only

[@yanicyoda4762]

donald Trump Needs to crack down on em hard. Amazon Is Actually the biggest threat to US Middle Class and small business in all sectors

[@biohackmasters]

I've been thinking that too!

[@yanicyoda4762]

@@nunya5864 Not gonna be easy unless the feds step in and break up the monopoly like they broke up AT&T Into Regional Providers.😉

[@bloodgrss]

Stay has tried, but they are getting tricky too.

[@artjimenez8550]

💯% Happens to me all the time. Now I'm restricted to stuff I've been selling for years. I'm just selling off the rest of my inventory to leave Amazon for good. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@Stefan_Van_pellicom]

All these big internet sellers follow the same path. It’s like the boiling frog experiment. In the beginning they pump fortunes in it, but once the whole thing is up and running, they gradually work towards making profits no matter how.

[@songsan807]

That is why I stopped selling at Amazon. Was doing for close to 15 years and they will screw you by forcing you to revel who your suppliers are by suppling them invoices in order to sell. Once they get a hold of the suppliers and build a relationship, they will cut you using stupid excuses like either hard drives contain fertilizers or you are not allowed to use a trademark name. That is why I am reducing my purchases from them and hope they go away.

[@gdj777]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@tuckerstevens9689]

@@jazzcatjohn I wonder about that. I'd like to get power to see if I'd get corrupt too. I think the answer is we'd all get corrupted.

[@manahapu]

When there's essentially no competition, that's what happens. Where's the toothless FTC?

[@stuartd9741]

Eventually Amazon will collapse if it treat customers and businesses partners in this way.. More people will leave or not start up businesses.. Yeah it's not gonna happen overnight.. But if word gets around it's not profitable on Amazon they lose that side of the business...

[@DonCurrier]

They have been nickel and diming small businesses and it’s only gotten worse. My wife used to do a decent business selling in Amazon. She has closed her Amazon store and now sells almost exclusively on EBay. Actually they have made things so bad, she got a job working for another company. I would stay away from Amazon as a small business person.

[@jonkeau5155]

Amazon has been screwing buyers recently too. I bought an electric toro mower on a sale about 5 months ago, the seller said it was new but when it arrived it was obvious it was open box. The battery didn’t work and had a fault. The seller ghosted us. Because it wasn’t a prime item Amazon refused to allow a return of the item despite it not being in the condition we were told. Went to use the warranty with Toro after a month and a half of back and fourth with Amazon and found out the bad battery wasn’t even the one that shipped from the factory with that mower. Amazon refused to make it right.

[@rogerbrassard]

Yes but as a person who buys products from Amazon many time the sellers are selling knock off copies like Mitutoyo calipers that are fake and junk yet they have 3 reviews that are 5 stars for for calipers that cost 5$ and selling for 50$. You get them and go through the return process yet the fake seller gets a full refund from amazon then opens a new page with 5 star reviews

[@PWingert1966]

On the customer side, I have noticed package tracking has all but disappeared. In another case, I got a notice that I was the next stop and then had to wait while he went through 5 residential streets and 15 deliveries before he got to our building! Or I get a notice the package is ten stops away then it shows up on my doorstep an hour later with no updates or a map of the delivery location during that last hour. Or It is left in the vestibule of the apartment building at 4:00 am with a zoomed image of just the package so I can't tell where in the building it is left. by the time I go down to the vestibule, it has been stolen by another tenant or a transient and sold for crack by 4:15am according to our community security team. (In that case, they were able to identify the individual and charge him with theft under $500).

[@ThisSentenceIsFalse]

The driver is prescanning to save time.

[@magran17]

And that’s not even a crime in California or New York…

[@Factory400]

I have been designing and manufacturing my own products for nearly 20yrs. I have tried distributors, dealers, Amazon, etc. If I sell 1000 units directly off my store, I make the same profit as selling 5x to10x the volume on Amazon. For me, selling direct is WAAAAAY better. No fear of some big corporate gut punch at any time.

[@TheWebstaff]

Except Google.

[@inthesky7836]

When something gets too big and out of alignment, it will self destruct. Sometimes quickly, often over time and It happens at every scale. Individual to governmental. Amazon is no exception

[@opiegonebad58]

Yep. It will happen. Amazon will be just a memory in the future, probably the near future. The same thing will happen to Apple. Both companies deserve it.

[@stuartd9741]

Agree. They just get to greedy or don't want accountability.. .. People will leave the platform..

[@B.Ch3rry]

Like gig (Uber/DoorDash/Lyft/Etc.) work, policy changes are often worse overtime…

[@scottriesebosch7832]

Amazon stole my new inventory, my returns, and then sold BOTH as new inventory - causing reviews on my product to plummet because customers I never sold to were receiving used items / returns that were a complete mess. I’m talking “take whatever parts came back in the return, throw them in a bag, sell as new”. You can always tell when an item has been returned. They put a different style barcode label on them. If you receive an item that appears as if it was previously opened / used and it was fulfilled by Amazon - it is not the seller shipping it as a new item it is Amazon.

[@Gi-Home]

Sellers shouldn't worry about Amazon losing their inventory and being reimbursed below cost; just wait a few days or weeks and you can buy your inventory back at full retail + free shipping, inventory does not disappear it can only be lost/stolen. Remember that in the Amazon universe goods simply dematerialize and rematerialize in the preferred sellers channel, remember reselling stolen goods is bad but reselling lost goods is good.

[@sirashley2355]

@@Gi-Home i like to believe that this is WORD FOR WORD the pitch used to implement this tactic, especially that last line. That guy was practicing that line in the mirror the whole previous night.

[@rwizard]

(Suggestion: You are the guy to start an alliance of Amazon sellers and push back.)(Question: In spite of the hostile environment, do you intend to stay?) I'm a retired businessman who has just taken on mentoring a disabled young woman in building a business for herself. She is currently selling on Etsy, and I am currently engaged in a personal crash course in understanding these marketplaces. I have watched your videos now and then over the years and they are always interesting. Your insights into what Amazon is doing are right on target. They remind me so much of some of the tactics Sears Roebuck used in the past. I understand that Sears broke a lot of small companies who thought they had hit the jackpot when Sears knocked on the door. But ultimately they became a victim of their own corporate culture - they could have been Amazon if they had moved with the times.

[@astrafullerrangeloff1926]

Please help me as I'm trying to retire as a CNA in the hospital 🙏

[@rwizard]

@@astrafullerrangeloff1926 I am sorry, I have twice posted a way to contact me, and twice it has been deleted. I will try one last time. Contact as follows: The first five letters of your screen name, followed by the four numbers at the end. Then the at sign, followed by my screen name and a period, then the letters pronounced "see" "oh" "em" like the last three letters in the address of youtube. If I can help I will, and if this stays up long enough for you to respond.

[@rwizard]

@@astrafullerrangeloff1926 I tried, but youtube deletes it every time. Sorry.

[@HobbyOrganist]

I never liked Etsy, I was an ebay seller doing pretty nicely, but then the sales plummeted to near zero and never went up again, I tried Etsy, Bonanza and others and they sold nothing- they are ebay wannabes, but ebay changed for the worst, used to be you had to PAY for listings 7 or 10 days, now it's list for free forever, as a result the same unsold junk stays up there forever. I STILL see items in the antiques/garden/other section I know were up there 10 years ago and still up there unsold, same price because it costs nothing to leave it up and game the search system. One guy had like 30 identical salvaged wrought iron gates, instead of putting them on one page, he ran a listing for each one- 30 pages all in a row took up like the first 4 pages in the listings displayed. They got rid of paypal, which I used to get paid for my item and I could get the cash from my local ATM right away, now it's some BS "managed payments" where they want your bank account to deposit the funds when they get around to it- after you already shipped, no thanks! I got rid of my acct

[@firsttenor76]

The internet and technology is ripe and ready for a new, more fair, online shopping experience that allows sellers to actually benefit more than the company providing the services. A shift and new option that takes over Amazon needs to happen. I can see Amazon losing it's reign as a corporate bully, and taken over by a humble, much more honest, company.

[@stuartd9741]

The only way one could challenge Amazon is Through a cooperative online seller owned and run by the people that use it...

[@CM-dw2xr]

One thing he didn't mention is that Amazon prices its own goods INCLUDING the shipping cost. Then it adds shipping costs to simple purchases, or if you use Prime or Subscribe, you are still paying the shipping cost embedded in the product price, so Amazon collects double the shipping cost most of the time. If you doubt this, just go compare the cost of an item for (1) Amazon free shipping vs. (2) non-Amazon seller adding shipping cost. Often you can get a slightly better total price with (2).

[@KLondike5]

Amazon also constantly tries to trick you into paying shipping costs even when you 've gone over their minimum threshold for non-prime deliveries. I don't know if it's still a $35. Every single time they will try to add the delivery fee unless you manually switch it over to the free shipping option yourself. This would be a slam dunk for the CFPB but I guarantee the new administration is going to squash everything that department has done to help consumers.

[@Gastell0]

Kinda clear that Amazon wants to reduce the inventory selection within their warehouses, which in turn should make keeping track of existing inventory a bit easier. They probably also want to handle more of items that have high throughput as well as higher cost items, and not handle stuff that's not worth it in handling. Power to small sellers really, this kind of centralization is always dangerous for everyone.

[@amjidali588]

Had a warehouse with 7 employees, started off from the garage, things were good until Amazon copied our range, overnight sales went flat. I originally thought there was an issue with account, but no they ruined the business.

[@Irilia_neko]

They are here for that, you design the product they take it and you go away, they get All the Profit

[@tuckerstevens9689]

What does "range" mean?

[@PaulDeLeo]

@@tuckerstevens9689product line

[@SA-rs5pl]

@@tuckerstevens9689maybe a cooking range?

[@cyo439]

@@tuckerstevens9689 Range means their stock. So you could have a cookwear range which is a variety of pans that you sell, or a sportswear range or a soft furnishing range, The items may have been designed or customised just for your store.

[@adewalebhadmus4227]

This is so awful from Amazon. Time for strong alternatives!!!

[@orbitalair2103]

Such as ???

[@morganzweifel2488]

A humble K teacher’s wish: This is when you wish another company would rise and give companies an alternative to Amazon.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@orbitalair2103 Walmart or Target perhaps?

[@newjiva]

@@brodriguez11000Walmart has an online store that sellers can use but they don’t advertise it.

[@GramGramGenX-ln5sc]

Mom and pop retailers?

[@RichD2024]

The absolute greed of companies like Amazon is truly amazing. They are already making an insane profit margin on sales but that's not enough, they just want more and more.

[@twisted2836]

Got to keep those stock casino gamblers happy. "Greed is good". Gordon Gekko

[@theboringchannel2027]

Amazon net profit is about 3%

[@stuartd9741]

​@@theboringchannel2027Amazons gross profit for Q4 300B... They're doing quite nicely....out of everyone else...

[@KLondike5]

​@@theboringchannel2027After paying a pile of money for maximum dollar shuffling & creative (but legal) accounting for tax purposes. Their strategy is always to make sure there's not much money poking out for taxability. If there's a windfall that's potentially taxable, they find ways to move that money to assets or other areas like bonuses or a million other accounting options. If you got a big bonus from work you could just take it and deal with the full income tax rate on however it's calculated. Or you could make extra contributions to your 401k with it and then it wouldn't be taxable for decades.

[@SharolTilgner]

I had noticed that they were claiming a lot of losses in my book inventory recently, so if they continue this new activity of claiming increased losses indeed it would become to costly to do business through Amazon. Are others having increased inventory loss claims from Amazon?

[@MissRegionRat]

I ordered a simple tin recipe box that came with the lid screwed onto the wrong side. I put in a request for a replacement and Amazon indicated it was on back order and would be delivered in a few months. 6 months later, I just checked on the item delivery status and now there is “no support available for this item.” So they gave me junk, promised a replacement, failed to send one, and now won’t help solve the issue at all. I’m not surprised it’s just as bad on the seller end.

[@nicky5185]

I work for a company that warehouses items for Amazon. Adding to everything you said, you cannot believe how low quality the software is. Full of bugs and glitches that never get fixed. I can easily see discrepancies in the inventory due to these issues, and I wouldn't be surprised that they were sitting somewhere in the warehouse. It was also reported items being stoled by the warehouse workers.

[@mattsiegel4516]

The writing has been on the wall for years now. FBA has only been around for 11-12 years. I spent 5 years selling FBM prior to that. Sure it's more work but it's easier to sleep at night.

[@danielbarnett6859]

Well being is Worth more than all the money in the world.

[@mattsiegel4516]

@ Amen! Maybe I’ll move into the Walmart space too

[@patrickcardon1643]

​@@mattsiegel4516 you have your own storage and shipping space or use a 3PL?

[@thebrickhiker]

It has been around since Sept 2006, nearly 20 years now. The glory days were amazing. Truly. It has devolved into a complete mess and no longer worth the extra headaches for most sellers.

[@mattsiegel4516]

@ Has it been that long?! I remember in 2013, I’d receive calls from associates at Amazon trying to get me to send inventory to FBA centers. Fast forward a decade and you’re lucky to get someone who speaks your language

[@exxosuk]

You nailed it by nobody takes accountability. It's why I quit eBay and PayPal 10 years ago. Always the large coups finding more ways to strangle sellers :( it's bad enough with all the GPSR and EU packaging laws. Literally nobody gives a crap about small sellers :(

[@Spamthulhu]

Amazon e commerce store front has been problematic for buyers and now it's screwing out sellers like the buyers.

[@charlesogden8492]

So what I'm taking away from this is 1-2% loss overall? As the consumer (and someone who's dabbled in dropshipping), I could care less. The bigger guys who are making 10s of thousands daily/monthly won't really be affected and even the small guys aren't shipping enough quantity to really have this issue. It really just targets the middle of the pack but then this is where I play devils advocate and say this policy as much as it sucks was putting Amazon on the hook for the everything and they offloaded some of that cost back onto you. Let's be real you can complain but it's falling on deaf ears as the margins are miniscule and if you don't like it you can ship with other competitors BUT you won't because Amazon is king. So if you want to keep making money this is just now a new cost of running your business.

[@HiTechDiver]

They think they have customers and businesses over the barrel, but I've seen "too big to fail," fail before. It will take a long time, but like other corrupt dealings, this will basically cause the whole Amazon market to crash in on itself, because once this becomes widely known, people don't like these tactics. In the meantime, I will try to find other places to buy from.

[@kwebber9248]

Store and ship your own products......

[@gjl7022]

the logistics and space are prohibitive if you sell thousands of units and manufacture.

[@newjiva]

If you sell perishable items or consumable foods, FDA can get very strict about how you ‘store’ inventory.

[@JustMe-s6s4m]

So, billionaire 1 decides to implement tariffs of up to 200% and billionaire B decides he will no longer reimburse tariff costs when he makes a mistake. Billionaire C in Congress decides that's ok and gets backed up by millionaire D who is sitting in the Supreme Court and wants to become billionaire D. A classic example of government by the people for the people.

[@MF-ty2zn1]

Organize. Mobilize. Run for office or find good people to run for office. Then go vote for them in the PRIMARIES.

[@mattlane2282]

So the government doing government things whether I agree that or not is the government The tariffs have nothing to do with someone else changing their business policies that they're not going to pay out That has nothing to do with oh my God a billionaire did this who cares I can have no money I do the exact same thing You think only billionaire people are going to do this everyone's going to do this as the cost of goods goes up you do something else so stop whining about that Then you start whining about Congress they shouldn't go ahead and be involved in private business You just want to cry about people with money stop being jealous everyone you know that uses Amazon made that billionaire a billionaire If no one used Amazon the stock would have no value and this guy would have no value and if you've ever used Amazon stop complaining

[@gabrielsyt]

I see the issues as someone that infrequently orders on Amazon. What I notice most is my orders get messed up if they ship from other than Amazon. One example was a thermal camera. It was shipped by a third party and never arrived. I requested to resend but they treated it like I would get both and they said I could keep the second one. I had already waited at least 10 days past when it should have arrived. I never got the second one. I did not want the second one. Very frustrating.

[@sblijheid]

Everything you said is exactly what I was wondering when I saw gurus selling FBA as the best thing since slice bread. If you sell on their platform, they have all the data on what sells and how much sells. They took this data and created their private label products which they can sell at lower prices because of their lower purchasing price due to their volume. At this point, they have all the data and technically, don't need the marketplace anymore. It's the same thing they did with their affiliates. Once they had all the traffic coming directly to them, they lowered the affiliate commissions so low that it's not worth it anymore. People, quit relying on marketplaces and sell from your own website. Do the math, it's cheaper than dealing with the likes of Amazon.

[@genin69]

Amazon has already lost bigger name brands and its been replaced by low quality chinese ripoffs

[@why2goatdagame]

What Amazon is saying is: We don't want other businesses to sell here. Go somewhere else or we will steal ur SshT

[@da8675]

I'm glad I never pulled the trigger on the Amazon FBA opportunity.

[@jeffn8218]

The theft of product ideas isn’t confined to the AWD side-it happened with AWS as well. They had a piece of electrical equipment custom-made by a vendor, said “thank you very much,” and instead of placing further orders, they simply created their own version. At the time, Jassy was in charge of AWS. Now, he runs the entire company.

[@Whalewraith]

Can you imagine selling collectables?, something that cost a few $ to produce like a comic book but was part of a limited cover run valued at $30 each...

[@glowgrow8063]

As you said, Amazon is a nightmare for sellers. It is time to create a better alternative

[@kranerwheatens]

Back in the day when I would stand up to my employer they would end up doing some pretty shady stuff. One of the higher ups just laughed and said if I don't like it.... quit. The 1% always controls the 99%

[@opiegonebad58]

It isn't just sellers being abused, buyers are also being abused. In the last 2 months my average amount of time from the order click to the time of actual delivery has been nearly 2 weeks. I have two orders that took over a month to actually arrive for FBA orders of items in stock. Amazon has been a horrible buying experience lately. I have moved on to other locations to buy from. Amazon desperately needs stiff competition. They also need to be broken up.

[@gjl7022]

it's typical as the holiday season arrives.

[@whitedust696]

I’ve stoped selling on Amazon….

[@FDpicker70]

Quit FBA 2 years ago after constant extra fees. Not worth it.

[@davidbeare730]

It is the value of the product that counts; not the cost of making the product. When a product is made, it has value beyond the cost of manufacture.

[@jenniferbringman9054]

So form a cooperative for sellers.

[@stuartd9741]

Exactly my thoughts too.

[@Dave-zl2ky]

I went through the Amazon seller process, and it was wise for me to go in my own better direction.

[@broderp]

Sounds pretty fair to me. One thought is you should only be entitled your "landed cost" and not your profit as you are only entitled to be made whole, and not profit from thier mistake. This makes sense. The second thought if that since Amazon cannot control thechoices you make for picking a supplier and incuring other fees such as shipping and other fees then to standardize the playing filed, only reemburse for actual product costs. The sellers are responsible with whats considered "the costs of doing busness". With all the variation is selling price for like items, I would speculate that many sellers have used the system to thier benifit, getting profits for no product sold, that Amazon is just not willing to foot the bill anymore. Any seller who doesnt like it can always manage thier own stock and shipping. Most will realize that the percentages they claim are getting tsken from them will in no way compare to the benift of selling through Amazons ecosystem. It sounds pretty fair to me.....

[@DonAsk-ks2qy]

I canceled prime a month ago. The quality of the products is bad, the shipping times have gotten worse. The video and music is full of ads. The description of products is deceptive. Delivery's are often damaged. Receiving wrong products. Amazon service gotten very bad. The video quality is worse than free streaming services. I'm done with Amazon.

[@Tony-rw1yj]

Amazon does not loss your inventory. They steal and resell it and make a profit.

[@vivisects-and-regicide]

This is an interesting comment. The FC is operated with robots and humans…everything is tracked, checked, managed, and audited. Theft is nearly impossible…so how can so many discrepancies happen?

[@Tony-rw1yj]

@vivisects-and-regicide human errors( thieves). They steal a box and hide it in the corner. Missing inventory and nowhere to be found. Lost inventory in their system. They found it a month or two later. Scan the bar code and system shows no longer a valid inventory. Here's an example that has happened to me. I went to the UPS store to return an item, they scanned the bar code and two days later. I received my return item. Because I forgot to tear off my shipping label on the box. Their system shows UPS has my item in shipping. I ended up getting my refund and the item. Human errors.

[@terriem3922]

I'm not buying from Amazon until they are unionized. The way they treat their workers is something I cannot justify. I used to buy $100 worth of items a month, on average. I'll wait.

[@ThinkingWithAI]

Truly love what your doing.

[@seyupo]

I am a buyer and had a lot of issues with marketplace sellers: wrong or false description, fake reviews, fake products or just fraud. In many cases Amazon takes the seller side. Not all marketplace sellers like that but enough to stop buying. I wish the marketplace become a separate business.