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Prohibited items: 'Cash or cash equivalent instruments, including money orders, checks that can be customized (including blank checks), traveler's checks, store

by rebrad 3y ago

Prohibited items: 'Cash or cash equivalent instruments, including money orders, checks that can be customized (including blank checks), traveler's checks, stored value products like retail or open loop gift cards or electronic stored-value redemption codes (except for retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers) Gift cards, including: Gift cards, except retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers' But restaurants, delivery apps, Abnb, Hotels.com and even Chewy have ecards: 1. https://www.amazon.com/Hotels-com-Red-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B01N0Q63M8/ref=sr_1_51?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843469&sr=8-51 https://www.amazon.com/Hotels-com-Red-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B01... 2. https://www.amazon.com/Bath-Body-Works-Snowflake-Email/dp/B0BD41864B/ref=sr_1_35?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843469&sr=8-35 https://www.amazon.com/Bath-Body-Works-Snowflake-Email/dp/B0... 3. https://www.amazon.com/Dominos-Pizza-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B00MV9H6VY/ref=sr_1_33?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843469&sr=8-33 https://www.amazon.com/Dominos-Pizza-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B00M... 4. https://www.amazon.com/DoorDash-Gift-Cards-Email-Delivery/dp/B07ZDX292M/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843469&sr=8-8 https://www.amazon.com/DoorDash-Gift-Cards-Email-Delivery/dp... 5. https://www.amazon.com/Instacart-Gift-Card-Email-Delivery/dp/B08QTNVVT6/ref=sr_1_23?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843469&sr=8-23 https://www.amazon.com/Instacart-Gift-Card-Email-Delivery/dp... 6. https://www.amazon.com/Chewy-eGift-Card-Delivery-Standard/dp/B0BQ31WCRH/ref=sr_1_54?keywords=eGift+Card&qid=1707843616&sr=8-54 https://www.amazon.com/Chewy-eGift-Card-Delivery-Standard/dp...

fckgw 3y ago
> electronic stored-value redemption codes (except for retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers) You're not an approved seller. Seems pretty clear here.
- rebrad 3y ago
  Retail gift cards are supposedly physical cards, not eGift cards?
- notahacker 3y ago
  And the fact big name retailers notionally competing with Amazon can secure approval to issue gift cards on Amazon.com is a pretty clear indication that it's not an anti-competitive policy, it's a why would we invest compliance resources in proving that startups selling gift cards for digital goods aren't money laundering operations when it'd be more cost effective to just ban them from the platform policy.
  - rebrad 3y ago
    Yeah sure, "invest compliance resources" when they don't even let you know what the application procedure is? Sure. The anti-competitive behaviour is shown as it's not possible to for small companies to even apply! If large companies can deploy resources towards compliance small can too, but without knowing the rules it's impossible.
    - notahacker 3y ago
      I hate to break it to you, but you're not Amazon's competition, and it's not "anticompetitive behaviour" that they don't want to spend thousands of man hours reviewing hundreds of applications from small businesses or fake business making gift cards, only a tiny fraction of which will generate more profit than chargebacks and legal trouble.

by rebrad 3y ago

fckgw 3y ago

> electronic stored-value redemption codes (except for retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers) You're not an approved seller. Seems pretty clear here.

rebrad 3y ago
Retail gift cards are supposedly physical cards, not eGift cards?
notahacker 3y ago
And the fact big name retailers notionally competing with Amazon can secure approval to issue gift cards on Amazon.com is a pretty clear indication that it's not an anti-competitive policy, it's a why would we invest compliance resources in proving that startups selling gift cards for digital goods aren't money laundering operations when it'd be more cost effective to just ban them from the platform policy.
- rebrad 3y ago
  Yeah sure, "invest compliance resources" when they don't even let you know what the application procedure is? Sure. The anti-competitive behaviour is shown as it's not possible to for small companies to even apply! If large companies can deploy resources towards compliance small can too, but without knowing the rules it's impossible.
  - notahacker 3y ago
    I hate to break it to you, but you're not Amazon's competition, and it's not "anticompetitive behaviour" that they don't want to spend thousands of man hours reviewing hundreds of applications from small businesses or fake business making gift cards, only a tiny fraction of which will generate more profit than chargebacks and legal trouble.