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Your link says nothing that supports your claim. Drop shipping from China is a violation of the TOS. There's nothing more to add to that. It's a lot of work to

Your link says nothing that supports your claim. Drop shipping from China is a violation of the TOS. There's nothing more to add to that. It's a lot of work to get these listing removed. The process is have the offending product sent to you, take photos, send the photos to Amazon. You can also hire and attorney to send a cease-and-desist notice, and you can also sue (if the company is based in the US). If you are a large seller, then you have to do this for each and every product that is piggybacking on your listing. Recently, Amazon added two things: 1- To list a product, you need a UPC. 2- You can restrict others from selling your brand.

astura 9y ago
What do you think "drop shipping from China" means? Because Amazon's policy, as written, clearly permits drop shipping from China. Here it is, from the horse's mouth: >Drop shipping, or allowing a third party to fulfill orders to customers on your behalf, is generally acceptable. If you intend to fulfill orders using a drop shipper, you must always: >Be the seller of record of your products; >Identify yourself as the seller of your products on all packing slips and other information included or provided in connection with them; >Be responsible for accepting and processing customer returns of your products; and >Comply with all other terms of your seller agreement and applicable Amazon policies. Anyway, even if drop shipping from China was not ok, it wouldn't change a damn thing, products are shipped directly from China to Amazon's warehouses to be sold by Amazon. You claimed its "It's very easy to remove fraudulent products from your listing." Yet everything you said is far from "very easy." >if the company is based in the US Lol, the entire friggin article is about Chinese companies turning Amazon into a dumping ground. Good luck suing these fly by night companies with no assets. Even if Amazon was so great at weeding out fakes (and they aren't) that leaves the eBay problem.
- dizzystar 9y ago
  This is the important bullet point: >Comply with all other terms of your seller agreement and applicable Amazon policies. "Fly by night with no assets." You could open up an Amazon account maybe read the policies that you agree to when you pay them their monthly fee. You could also see that selling on Amazon is far more difficult and less profitable than you give credit for. You prevent others from piggybacking your listing by registering your brand and informing Amazon that you do not allow others to sell your product. This would prevent others from listing against you. The onus is on the seller to be educated, just as the onus of education is on literally any other field of work.

astura 9y ago

What do you think "drop shipping from China" means? Because Amazon's policy, as written, clearly permits drop shipping from China. Here it is, from the horse's mouth: >Drop shipping, or allowing a third party to fulfill orders to customers on your behalf, is generally acceptable. If you intend to fulfill orders using a drop shipper, you must always: >Be the seller of record of your products; >Identify yourself as the seller of your products on all packing slips and other information included or provided in connection with them; >Be responsible for accepting and processing customer returns of your products; and >Comply with all other terms of your seller agreement and applicable Amazon policies. Anyway, even if drop shipping from China was not ok, it wouldn't change a damn thing, products are shipped directly from China to Amazon's warehouses to be sold by Amazon. You claimed its "It's very easy to remove fraudulent products from your listing." Yet everything you said is far from "very easy." >if the company is based in the US Lol, the entire friggin article is about Chinese companies turning Amazon into a dumping ground. Good luck suing these fly by night companies with no assets. Even if Amazon was so great at weeding out fakes (and they aren't) that leaves the eBay problem.

dizzystar 9y ago
This is the important bullet point: >Comply with all other terms of your seller agreement and applicable Amazon policies. "Fly by night with no assets." You could open up an Amazon account maybe read the policies that you agree to when you pay them their monthly fee. You could also see that selling on Amazon is far more difficult and less profitable than you give credit for. You prevent others from piggybacking your listing by registering your brand and informing Amazon that you do not allow others to sell your product. This would prevent others from listing against you. The onus is on the seller to be educated, just as the onus of education is on literally any other field of work.