🚨 Amazon Sellers, Sound Off! 🚨
Hit the 👍 thumbs up if you've experienced any of these struggles with Amazon as a small business owner:
1️⃣ Amazon's policies crippling your business instead of helping it grow.
2️⃣ Unexplained account suspensions with no clear path to resolution.
3️⃣ Reserve holds tying up your money when you need it to reinvest.
4️⃣ Competing with Amazon's private-label products copying your bestsellers.
5️⃣ Suppressed or removed listings for vague reasons—or no reason at all.
6️⃣ Fraudulent buyer claims where customers get refunds and keep the item.
7️⃣ Return requests months later that shouldn’t even qualify for returns.
8️⃣ Losing money because Amazon's return policies favor buyers, not sellers.
9️⃣ Getting negative reviews for things outside your control, like carrier delays.
🔟 Sky-high fees making it feel like you're working for Amazon, not yourself.
1️⃣1️⃣ Having to cut prices to the bone just to win the Buy Box.
1️⃣2️⃣ Unhelpful, copy-paste support responses that solve nothing.
1️⃣3️⃣ Amazon's A-to-Z Guarantee favoring buyers, even if they lie.
1️⃣4️⃣ Unfair performance metrics that don't reflect the effort you put in.
1️⃣5️⃣ Receiving policy violation warnings without any clear instructions.
1️⃣6️⃣ Issues with inventory reimbursement delays—or never getting reimbursed at all.
1️⃣7️⃣ Amazon forcing you to compete on ads just to get seen by customers.
1️⃣8️⃣ Suspicious fluctuations in sales that feel like shadow banning.
1️⃣9️⃣ Customers abusing free shipping and return perks at your expense.
2️⃣0️⃣ Seeing your hard work get crushed while Amazon profits off your struggles.
2️⃣1️⃣ Feeling like Amazon only cares about buyers and big brands—not small sellers.
If any of this hits home, smash that 👍 thumbs up and let’s make our voices heard. 💪 Let’s see how many of us feel the same way!
None of this is new and Amazon doesn't care about your voice or anyone else's for that matter. They are a business and run it how they see fit (sucks, but that's the way it is).
You are completely right. But you know what? Take it or leave it!
You do or you don't. I did for 10+ years and left at the end of 2024 when it no longer made sense. What also doesn't make sense is staying, when you have a list like that and it consumes you. You stay, if your profit is worth your losses and mental health.
you're right, but what can we do as a small seller. Maybe I shound quit, Amazon is not fair to our small seller
I don't complain...Buy Box & blocking some sellers from view is unfair...
So Called "Fair Pricing" is random & Makes No Sense...Let Buyers Decide...
Exactly. Someone needs to hit them with a class action law suit.
This is not a new thing, either surviving on Amazon or being eliminated by peers
Don't forget the listing-hijackings.
Also, would be nice something like on the other 2 large markets. First Class Mail Envelope with printed plain, tracked stamp, with a $20 limit. Both other large ones had this, but Amazon won't do it for an unknown reason... :-/ Both other ones are covering the loss too for this type of shipping, if USPS messes up things (losing the envelope or super-late with delivery).