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!
39 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
im more irritated by the toy testing requirements having to be done every year even when the toy hasn't been changed. I have the same toy listed in varying quantities, but I have to pay $100 per ASIN regardless to have the testing documents reviewed, EVERY YEAR.
It is overreach.
Seller_I1nrzWAOR1S2u
Babies can swallow anything and die! This is not worth the livelihood of thousands of small businesses that destroy families!! Only two babies die a year from swallowing batteries!!! And you really think all this compliance is necessary?!?!
Seller_gj8HjJaghobAH
Amazons toy requirements far exceed federal standards too. Every single toy that is imported already needs testing and CPCs on file yet with CBP for customs clearance. Amazon requires MORE testing beyond any government regulations. Its beyond absurd, all my toy items are now on other platforms. I refuse to participate in this game they're playing. I have an item right now that went viral and its selling hundreds of units a day and Amazon is not getting those commissions that's for sure. And after the DD+7 fiasco they can eat a heaping bowl.
Seller_aEzr9PjpfpuxN
I can understand testing for toys since baby play with them all the time and can be a choking hazard. but batteries this is ridiculousness.
Seller_aEzr9PjpfpuxN
first off I sell button cells batteries and the child swallowed a lithium button cell battery and choked and died. as usual instead of studding what happened congresses pass a law that caused a lot of problems across the board. first they included all button cell batteries. but if a baby swallows a 357 battery nothing will happen to them and they will poop it out in a day or two.
An on another not where is the parent responsibility on watching their baby and keeping dangerous items out of their reach. a kid chokes a dies but it not the parents fault it the product fault same argument I hear when it comes to gun control the guns are at fault
Seller_oDXVaydIpi3Hi
Odd, I've raised 7 children and not one ate a battery.
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!
