It'd be fine if it were simply transparency, if the companies that get kicked off had all done something legitimately "bad" in some sense. The problem is that

It'd be fine if it were simply transparency, if the companies that get kicked off had all done something legitimately "bad" in some sense. The problem is that Amazon often doesn't seem to really investigate issues in any depth at all; they just kick the seller off reflexively. It's trivially easy to be kicked off the platform for reasons other than doing something legitimately "bad," such as software error, human error, or even a deliberately orchestrated fraud campaign conducted by your competitor -- and many other sellers don't get kicked off for doing the same thing, or worse. It's all very random.