(01-09-2021, 11:36 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: I know quite a few people that sell on amazon. Amazon has a lovely habit of screwing their sellers over. They like to look for the profitable items that are being sold and suddenly start undercutting their own sellers buy selling that product themselves. They will make you submit invoices for where you bought your items and then suddenly you won’t be able to source them anymore. Pretty crappy way to treat people that have made you money.

Exactly. I haven't heard any of my small business friends say Google or Apple or Facebook are screwing them over, but a lot of them say Amazon is screwing them over.  My wife in particular uses Google and Facebook for advertising, and she has always felt like they treated her fairly.

Amazon needs to be split into like four companies.
1) Direct physical retail sales
2) Audio/video streaming, alexa, fire tablet, WaPo
3) Marketplace sales - small businesses posting products for sale
4) Amazon Web Services

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