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This is completely true. We used to do some development work for a client in florida. They sold all kinds of batteries on amazon. One day, a single dispute bro
by cptaj 7y ago
This is completely true.
We used to do some development work for a client in florida. They sold all kinds of batteries on amazon. One day, a single dispute brought their whole business down. They had a whole warehouse of employees and they all got fucked because some temp employee somewhere in the world half-read a dispute while hungover from the night before and clicked a button.
No appeals, no recourse. Your entire company shut down just like that.
- awad 7y agoCurious - are you able to share more details?
- binarysolo 7y agoThese guys need to hire an Amazon reinstatement specialist - they're like $2k-10k a pop and basically help suspended guys get back to Amazon. It's nontrivial to get the business back but the main barrier is playing Amazon's game, writing the doc exactly the way they want it, and being super vigilant once you're on probation.
- kevin_b_er 7y agoI just presume these guys have amazon employees on their own payroll. Like governement corruption, but libertarian where's there's even less recourse and no courts.
- pkaye 7y agoThat looks like a fault of this business though. They outsourced some critical element of their business.
- thirdsun 7y agoAnd that is exactly why they should have built their own shop and used it as their primary storefront. With services like Shopify or Squarespace it's not rocket science these days and you could still use Amazon, eBay or other marketplaces as additional sales channels. It's almost reckless and short-sighted not to maintain a truly owned store - don't put all your eggs in one basket.