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Cry me a river. If the authors want to sell their books, they can open up their own website, set up a table at the local flea market, rent a store space and sto
by imgabe 8y ago
Cry me a river. If the authors want to sell their books, they can open up their own website, set up a table at the local flea market, rent a store space and stock it with all the quackery they want. Amazon is not the only sales outlet in the world. Nobody is stopping them from selling anything.
Amazon is not obligated to carry their merchandise any more than they would be obligated to carry any Amazon branded products in their own stores.
If anything, whenever Amazon is mentioned here, people come in to complain that they need to do more to remove garbage products from their website. Here's a garbage product that literally kills people when they use it. If it were a toaster, it would be yanked from the shelves and the manufacturer would be getting sued for wrongful death.
- spaginal 8y agoI don't disagree in the slightest that they should explore all avenues for sale. Answer this question to satiate my curiosity, what if Stripe and Paypal refuse to process credit card payments for these authors? What if Square refuses to swipe cards at the flea market for the author?
- _trampeltier 8y agoIt does already happen. There are many cases like Fetlife etc ...
- imgabe 8y agoPaypal (and probably Stripe?) are notorious for freezing customer accounts with little to no explanation, so to answer you question to what if they did that...probably nothing? Paypal or Stripe or Square are not any more obligated to do business with a particular customer than anyone else is. They can always accept cash, checks, Bitcoin, barter.
- jpindar 8y agoPaypal already refuses to allow itself to be used for sales of various legal but controversial products.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoAs does Stripe
- zeckalpha 8y agoStripe and PayPal choose to work with certain credit card networks, not all.
- thefounder 8y agoStripe and Paypal along with Braintree and many others refuse to process credit cards for all kind of products(i.e sale of kodi boxes). This on top of Visa and Mastercard ban policies. Something like Youtube would never be allowed to process credit cards if it didnt't have a big corporation/money behind.
- tuesdayrain 8y ago> Answer this question to satiate my curiosity, what if Stripe and Paypal refuse to process credit card payments for these authors? I believe this will always be a concern unless cryptocurrency becomes widely accepted. Any centralized payment processing system will likely cause certain people to be excluded.
- exolymph 8y agoCorrect. The incentives and pressures on centralized payment processors are never going to change.
- Corrado 8y agoI have friends who run a 100% legal horse racing “fantasy” site and they can’t get a CC processor to work with them at all. This includes Stripe and PayPal. I’m sure that adult entertainment has the same problem. Your question inst new at all and many industries have been fighting that same battle for years.
- banachtarski 8y agoWell said