>The level of discipline required to operate a multi-tenant, externally facing service like FBA yields tremendous benefit to the Amazon’s internal operation — t

>The level of discipline required to operate a multi-tenant, externally facing service like FBA yields tremendous benefit to the Amazon’s internal operation — this isn’t some hacked-together, homegrown tool that is hard-coded to Amazon’s own needs and thus nearly impossible to improve. Did this guy just say FBA is impossible to improve? Is this a comedy piece? FBA is garbage, we (third party sellers, at least me) only sell on FBA because that's where the customers are. FBA is like an abusive boyfriend you can't get away from. Sure, Amazon will reimburse you when they lose your inventory (which they will do, very often) but you have to watch your inventory like a hawk because they won't tell you your inventory is lost. That's assuming your shipments even make it into your inventory in the first place after arriving at the wearhouse. Ive heard of big time FBA sellers having to hire someone to do nothing but resolve inventory discrepancies full time. Seller support barely speaks English (unless you can get a supervisor, which I was able to do once by making enough of a stink) and doesn't understand what your problem is. Of course they take 3 full days to not resolve your issue. No legitimate seller commingles inventory anymore because then Amazon will send out counterfeits to your customers. It absolutely WILL happen to you at some time if you are commingling for enough time, no exceptions. Then you have to hope Amazon doesn't kick you off their platform for their own incompetence.