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Canceled my prime subscription about a year back. Amazon's response to low quality garbage filling their platforms has, humorously, been to erect walls and opaq
by viridian 2y ago
Canceled my prime subscription about a year back. Amazon's response to low quality garbage filling their platforms has, humorously, been to erect walls and opaque processes that in the long run benefit the people selling low-quality garbage.
How does that work? Well, if you are a pop-up reseller of some Alibaba good, you simply accept eventual account terminations, and you roll that into your deployment process. The lifecycle looks like this:
1. You make some new generic name like FITPLUS
2. Order several hundred items from a factory whose representative you can contact by barking up the chain on AliExpress, the factory should be able to white-label them as FITPLUS for a small fee.
3. You pay for a couple dozen reviews up front on your new account to seed reviews.
4. Just keep shipping, and if the product is reviewing well, keep shipping forever. If not, restart the process.
5. Report other market players for similar items as making derivative products. After all, they are probably doing the same to you.
The key thing for success is that you treat Amazon and your customers with a complete mercenary mentality. Your name doesn't matter, service doesn't matter, because everything that happens is at the whims of fickle machine gods. If your first offering doesn't work, you fire up a second, a third, a fourth, until something sticks around for a while.
People trying to make high-quality goods will typically roll over and bow out after the first product take-down.