Anybody have any ideas HOW WE ARE GOING TO FUND OUR BUSINESSES WITH NO ORDER DISTRIBUTIONS FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS due to DD + 7????

That's what Im concerned about right now. We are all working fulltime.... DD + 7 policy. This will be like a 3 week furlough with no disbursement check. Yet WE STILL have to give out our thousands of dollars of inventory, and still have to work fulltime. After we get through this "HUMP" we will basically be on a 3 week delay for the rest of our business LIVES on here, unless Amazon wakes up and realizes this is the worst decision for its business sellers in the last 16 years and $8 million in sales since i have been on here.

In effect, when the year is done, we will be short about a month of distributions, because we wont get paid for 3/4 of March. Anybody have any ideas on how to survive and not GO BANKRUPT over the cash flow disruption from this??? Anybody have a months worth of gross receipts sitting around in reserve to cover an entire month with no order distributions ??? My quarterly taxes are due next month. This is a big enough gap in cash flow to cause any seller to completely miss the deadline for taxes. If you gross $30k a month in sales to clear $7500 profit, a $20000 cash flow hold is like holding 3 months worth of profit in reserve. Those are common numbers, well within reason for those of us who net a tidy 25% profit. Some of us net ALOT LESS. And a cash flow hold like that for someone with 10% margins is like holding 6 months profit in reserve. As if waiting up to 2 weeks for order delivery to get paid isn't enough, they are ADDING AN ADDITIONAL 7 DAYS to put the cash flow nail in all of our coffins! That's up to 3 weeks of manpower, resources, and inventory exhausted with no replenishment.

As a seller who GREATLY APPRECIATES Amazon as a platform, and what FBA and FBM has done for our businesses, I say THANK YOU AMAZON, AND GOD BLESS YOU. However, this new DD + 7 policy of delaying everyones proceeds for 3 weeks, is like taking 2 steps backward. This should be a policy to vet NEW SELLERS WITH UNDER $35K IN SALES. NOT SELLERS WHO HAVE PROVEN THEIR HONESTY WITH THEIR RECORDS 10 TIMES OVER. I HAVE BEEN SELLING ON HERE 16 YEARS. SO MY QUESTION IS, "WHY NOW, AMAZON?" WHY DELAY OUR FUNDS 3 WEEKS AFTER WE HAVE BEEN DOING IT RIGHT FOR 16 YEARS? Great way to punish your good sellers Amazon. Way to say you appreciate our efforts. 80,000+ orders, $8 million in sales in 16 years. 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK. No employees. I WORK MY TAIL OFF. AND I BARELY GET ENOUGH TO COVER LOAN PAYMENTS BY DUE DATES AS IS. I HAVE $300,000 IN LOANS/CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS. *** HIGHLY LEVERAGED WITH DEBT. *** CREDITORS DONT WAIT. THEY STILL EXPECT PAYMENT ON TIME THIS MONTH.

IDEAS ON HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FOLKS? ANYBODY GETTING A 2ND LOAN ON THEIR HOUSE TO COVER THIS MASSIVE GAP IN DISTRIBUTION???