AMAZON HAS DESTROYED MY BUSINESS!!!
In the past couple years due to this [Moderator Edit: removed inappropriate commentary] REESES LAW thousands of sellers like myself have been absolutely destroyed with non sense complaince and testing because some baby died from a battery. We used to thrive with a 100 orders a day selling watches and now maybe 1-2 sales a day until they take down the remaining listings for what we have. Then we try to pivot and sell over merchandise everything is gated with a lot of brands we used to sell. We as sellers made AMAZON what it is and now they are chewing all of us up and spitting us out. They are going direct with thousands of brands and slowly but surely will get rid of all 3rd party sellers for good. They care about the bottom and not small businesses what so ever!
AMAZON HAS DESTROYED MY BUSINESS!!!
In the past couple years due to this [Moderator Edit: removed inappropriate commentary] REESES LAW thousands of sellers like myself have been absolutely destroyed with non sense complaince and testing because some baby died from a battery. We used to thrive with a 100 orders a day selling watches and now maybe 1-2 sales a day until they take down the remaining listings for what we have. Then we try to pivot and sell over merchandise everything is gated with a lot of brands we used to sell. We as sellers made AMAZON what it is and now they are chewing all of us up and spitting us out. They are going direct with thousands of brands and slowly but surely will get rid of all 3rd party sellers for good. They care about the bottom and not small businesses what so ever!
38 replies
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
Yeah, how selfish of Amazon and lawmakers thinking that the lives of babies is more important than you making a buck.
Seller_Sram36TnVt73c
You have to evolve. I've gone through so many product lines here. Maybe I've just had bad luck, but whatever product line I've tried, eventually the Amazon grim reaper would come along with brand or category gating, search suppressions, compliance requirements, etc.
I used to sell CDs, Blurays and DVDs. Then the gating started. Then the search suppressions started. The final nail in the coffin was the buy/burn/return crowd and the resulting hassles trying to get my 50% restocking fees for all the damaged merch I was getting back while Amazon refunded these b@$#@rds at first scan (a REALLY bad idea for recordable media).
Then I moved to toys, but all the annual recertifications and costs is running me out of that product line.
I found a cool office product that was selling well, but then the button-cell requirements came along. Thankfully, the supplier has all that testing done and I don't have to pay to have an Amazon 'partner' review them like we have to pay for toy certification test reviews, so even there I am hanging by a thread.
It has become a total hassle selling here. The phrase 'rat race' comes to mind, and that is what I thought I had left behind when I started here.
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
I don't sell toys, but fully agree that having to retest is absurd. A change is made? Gotta test; fine. But unless there are new regulations, why have to retest just because it's been a year.
Makes you wonder how much of a kick-back Amazon gets from the testing companies.....
Seller_9psnDvjCnXqh8
It was a law signed by Biden, so it could be likely Trump would get rid of this law out of spite. Send Trump a message, see what happens.
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
Yes, I do. So does anyone with a heart.
Seller_z1JDNz6de1lqc
AMAZON IS THE DESTROYER OF BUSINESS! Just items we sell we have seen many brands destroyed after Amazon stops selling and competing on with face compliance or price suppression. Simple solution as there is only one thing that matters is sales so shift sales to alternative outlets and let that sink in before the next round of DD+69ing takes affect right before the holidays!
Seller_nRFmxiQg4EGrw
LOL.
Yeah, sorta like the people who in 2000 declared "See, nothing happened; we wasted all that money on Y2K bs".
Seller_VKaD8B0OLgjxe
“Only two babies a year” is a pretty wild way to wave off something that’s completely preventable. That’s not a stat, that’s two families dealing with something permanent because a product wasn’t safe enough.
And it’s not just deaths, button batteries cause serious internal burns and ER visits way more often than death. Acting like it’s no big deal because the number isn’t higher just sounds out of touch.
You can argue the rules go too far or hurt small businesses, fine. But pretending the risk is basically nothing isn’t a serious argument.
Seller_8dFq4P7n2cEmz
"Some baby." That's someone's child.
Seller_QZRSvQ3mg7EmY
They also built it. You need to adapt to a fluid selling environment.
