Amazon marketplace crackdown has sellers searching for legal help | Clean-up drive has led to some small businesses having their accounts suspended::Clean-up drive has led to some small businesses having their accounts suspended.
The pendulum swings both ways. Amazon is absolutely full of fake goods, unsafe goods, stuff you absolutely could not sell in the markets in which they operate. Prior to now, they have refused to make any serious effort to clean up bad actors. For the time being, they’re probably going to swing the other way. Hopefully they can eventually work out a happy medium.
The clean up is long overdue. I have been trying to eliminate Amazon shopping from my life completely and this has been helped by the utter shit the site is flooded with.
Clean up the shit being sold on Amazon. And while they’re at it they should clean up their own shit treatment of staff and tax avoidant exploitation.
Let’s see whether XXTDZ gets suspended for selling fake goods.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Merchants who have been suspended from selling goods on Amazon’s marketplace are turning to a cottage industry of lawyers to regain access to their accounts and money, amid growing scrutiny of how the retailer treats independents.
Millions of accounts on the leading ecommerce platform have been prevented from engaging in sales for alleged violations of Amazon’s broad range of policies and other bad behavior.
Amazon’s recent efforts to crack down on issues such as fake product reviews have come as US and European regulators have upped their scrutiny of the online harms facing shoppers.
But critics said the existence of a growing army of lawyers and consultants to deal with the fallout from Amazon’s actions pointed to a problem with the way the retailer treats its sellers.
If you’re operating a business where the people you’re deriving revenue from feel that they’re being treated in an arbitrary way without due process, that is a problem,” said Marianne Rowden, chief executive of the E-Merchants Trade Council.
“The fact that there are entire law firms dedicated to dealing with Amazon says a lot,” said one seller, who, like many who spoke to the FT, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
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