Selling On Amazon.com Sucks ! Have you considered selling on Amazon ? It Sucks ! Amazon has serious issues with its merchant feedback system. It is completely one sided (customer’s side) which only breeds abuse. We have been selling on Amazon (merchants) for a year now and want to call it quits because their feedback system, well, SUCKs!
Unlike eBay’s feedback, Amazon sellers can not respond to feedback, so boy can your company’s reputation can get abused under these circumstances.
Amazon has no address verification systems in place. We receive aprox. 15% (one month as high as 20%) incorrect delivery addresses from customers on Amazon. All of which usually results in a negative feedback. How is that the sellers fault! On top of that, the customer gets a full refund for the order, and the seller is out the shipping costs. If your company has a reputation that you would like to withhold, you should reconsider selling on Amazon!
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1656 comments "If your company has a reputation that you would like to withhold."
An exceptionally poor choice of words, if I may say so (unless that was intended as a roundabout way of admitting that your company has a bad reputation...). | | |
| You can't hurt us with this crap. You are a loser for even trying. Eat a bag of dicks! | | |
Eat a bag of dicks! :
Was this comment left by Amazon.com ?! That only shows the integrity of Amazon. | | |
Buying sucks, too!
Amazon continues to shelter sellers by giving them 10 (TEN!!!) business days to send item(s), even though charges appear on credit cards immediately! Buyers have no way of knowing if the seller has actually sent the item since the vast majority never notify buyers that item has been shipped - something Amazon should require but does not. Amazon refuses to intervene until seller has had plenty of time to skip town. Makes no sense.
I won’t be doing any more trading on this worthless site... | | |
| Yeah, amazon sucks and its getting suckier all the time. i mean selling there. the customers seem to think that books can be had for free, sales are down down, prices for books too. too many idiot lowballers that amazon encourges. also amazon is practicising fraud themselves by charging a-z claims to sellers . the third party sellers are screwed by both sides. we only wonder how long it will take before a class action suit gets filed against amazon for stealing from third party sellers. their methods are punish fear control and its chicken feed to sell there too | | |
| ps yes that was amazon saying eating a bag of dicks. i clicked on it and i came to the amazon site | | |
Your feeble attempts to soil my magnificent name will fade into ruin as I destroy all those who seek to stop me!
Be warned, mankind! Your greatest hopes will turn to ashes and be cast into the uncaring winds. Your secret fears will come to pass, given form and shape by my command. You will pray for the eternal darkness of oblivion before I am through! Curse the day I was created and heap scorn upon those who feed my obscene and insatiable hunger for power. Your resistance amuses me for I know it to be the futile gesture of the defeated.
Flee before my approach and wither in my presence for I am all that was and that will yet be.
I AM AMAZON.COM unto eternity!!
PS: Eat a bag of dicks. | | |
I used to work for amazon (work at home) and guess what, If you sell at amazon, we will take all your money!
If you sell over $1000 a month. Your account well be investigated and guess what, all the money coming in will is forwared to our account. And guess what? I get 50% of all accounts being investigated.
haha. Keep on selling!!! | | |
Amazon sucks Big!!! Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks Amazon sucks. I can’t say enough of this. I was a buyer and a seller and they screw me both ways. If you are looking to buy cheap forget about amazon. If you are selling at amazon Beware that if you are making a good sizable of money, they will investigate your account and hold your money. Probably you will never se it again. I'm waiting for at least 1 year and a half and counting for them to send me back the check that they have promised me. Because many customers that are ready to screw you even though they are wrong. There is nothing that helps sellers to prevent any mistakes or bad feedback. If you sell a lot of things, Of course there will be at least 1-5% of bad feedbacks; and this will hurt your business and they will close your account because of that. So if you don’t want to work for free for amazon.com STAY AWAY!
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You guys Aren't kidding. Amazon Sucks. their A to Z claims is a Gateway for Buyers to rip you Off and If you dispute thier Claims they will Suspend your Account and Hold your Deposits. And if you are a Nice guy who likes Posiive feedback they will suspend your account for "giving too many refunds"
AMAZON.COm suck ass | | |
Do you really think that you can defeat me, Amazon.com?
Get real punks. I practically own the internet. Of all the websites that have been born I shine surpreme as dominant. Wreathed in fire I rise above your puny mortal souls.
AMAZON.COM RULES!
Now go eat a bag of dicks. | | |
I buy some goods by Amazon.com when the companie send a big charge to elctrified my keyboard.
Also, I sell some rare books by Amazon.com. Some people drive to my house, beatin up me, steal books. | | |
I really am sorry and I'll change my ways,
just unzip those pants =^-^=!! Super cute kawai! | | |
| Amazon does suck. They just blocked my account and gave me a stupid reason: "failing to complete transactions." Only things is, they never even told me who is disputing and I have no negative feedbacks. Anyone know of a remedy? | | |
| what kind of a company write emails like that | | |
| I also had my seller account blocked by Amazon.com, after months of good sales and a 99.7% positive feedback rating, because I had few listings offering the same item in a different format (i.e. - offering a DVD version under the VHS listing). I had clearly put 'DVD Version' in the listing notes, and customers did not have a problem with it, but apparently Amazon.com felt this was justification to forever block my account and all 'subsequent' accounts with no warning whatsoever. I've tried to appeal to them with my humble opinion that there action is a bit harsh considering the circumstances, but they just send me canned form-letter emails in response. | | |
| I tried buying an item from the Amazon marketplace today and each time they cancelled my order saying the seller was not "able" to receive payment via Amazon.com!! What kind of mess is this??? | | |
i have not sold on amazon. i have bought many items on amazon with no complaints.
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| Amazon just sent out a blanket notice yesterday that all sales of software are discontinued for those with seller accounts. They immediately blocked more than a dozen items that I had listed and said they won't reconsider before December. This message applied to all sellers. There was no notice or explanation. Just an e-mail. Anyone else get this? | | |
I was selling on Amazon for 3 years had a approval rating on 98 percent was selling about 20,000 a month in software got a email from Amazon stating they blocked my selling account because I received I negative feedback about selling academic software.
I did get ONE negative from a buyer who claimed they received the wrong version I even replaced the software but Amazon refused to reconsider re-opening our account
They are holding 11,000 of our money right now for 90 days!!!!!!.
Do not I repeat do not sell on Amazon their a to z claim will kill as you do not have a chance if some one files one they will side with the buyer then close you account IF you complain.
We had only 3 a to z claims this year and sold 300 boxes of software 99 percent last time I check.
You will get NO warning when the hold your money and close your account!!!! Seller beware!
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Buying on amazon.com has been a nightmare for me
the shipping staff there is clueless, i sent 2 U.S money orders for a book order, and they sent them both back to me (TWICE) while telling me in their emails that they dident not have a clue why my orders wernt sent out. At the end of amazons constant disreputable handling of my order and total confusion on their part
I TWICE received a letter back, with my 2 AMERICAN FUNDS money orders, saying that my money orders werent us funds, they stalled me for 3 months in their idiotic process! Im sorry to say it but, frankly ive never seen stupider! THE ACOUNTS STAFF THERE IS DOPEY AND BLOCKHEADED! simply no brains! or they are severely visually impaired.
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amazon had major problems with my order too,
their site is the most un-user friendly site ive dealt with! couldnt even contact them by a regular email addy, all they have is this dumb ass 'wheres my stuff html page' that in many cases dosent even work! notice there are no visible upfront email adresses with an @ to contact them anywhere on there page?
and if your order messes up they wont allow you to contact them back by the email they wrote you with!
(so better get ready copy and paste till your fingers are numb)! more major pain = You click on a specific edit page and end up in pages that are unrelated to what you were looking for, amazon is one stupid unfunctional and complicated website and i do agree the staff isnt very witty. | | |
| Anyone who is thinking of selling on Amazon.com should think twice. Amazon.com is not like any of the comparison shopping sites which it's market place is similar to or even the auction sites it is competing against. The other sites have one primary difference, they do not sell anything. Amazon.com sells the same items, in the same place in which the 3rd party merchants do. Giants like Toys R Us and TigerDirect have profit sharing contracts with Amazon.com so they are a welcomed addition. The smaller merchants do not. They are at the mercey of amazon.com and their ridiculos A to Z sellers agreement. Sellers must understand that Amazon.com's fiduciary interest in Amazon.com. That means they have to prevent 3rd party sellers from becoming too sucessful in their marketplace. I started as a seller on Amazon.com with a zshop in their market place. I did well in a short period of time. I was able to start my own website. Once I did that I was invited to begin selling on the next level within amazon.com as a higher level merchant. Unfortunatly, that was the begining of the end. The better my company did the more problems we encountered. I reached the point where my company was grossing over $40,000 a week, then Amazon.com began to disrupt my sales, I experienced the one sided A to Z claims from customers, they held my money for no apparent reason and wouldn't answer any of my inquiries. Finally I threatened legal action through an influential small business organization I am apart of and then they gave me my money. However, a day later they inexplicably closed my account. I can say with out doubt that once I began making money serious money the problems mysteriously began to occur. Luckly I have made enough money have a professional internet storefront built andd marketed but I know I am one of the lucky ones. Amazon.com seems to screw with far too many sellers before they have the opportunity to do well. | | |
What are the alternatives to Amazon?
What I did not like about selling on Amazon is their hidden "Closing fee", something they bury in their verbage. | | |
| Their new policy of new sellers selling is really terrible.. I am going to ebay.. as I thought of selling my older digital camera.. oh well Amzon.com is not the best according to several review sites now and even on TV shows mention that. | | |
An open letter to Mr. Amazon
RE-Update from my last post
I left Amazon for eBay my sells are up 63 percent from when I used to sell an Amazon!
Thank you Mr. Amazon for blocking my account, if it wasn’t for you I would
never have tried eBay.
Guess what Mr. Amazon? Now that I’m with eBay I get to create my own listings, charge my
own shipping price, (without you taking ½ the fees and making ship using the postal service
believe it or not Mr. Amazon Not every customer likes post office deliveries)
Ooh yea I have my own powerseller rep. my very own pay pal rep and when I call them
(that right I have their personal numbers and ext.) they recognize me by voice yea the right
Mr. Amazon two dedicated people handle my account no more emailing
Mr. jeff@amazon.com or custerservice@amazon.com and
waiting 4 days for an EMAIL generated
response that never answers my question correctly. Ooohh it gets worst……..
I pay 5 percent not 15 percent I USED to pay with Mr. Amazon.
I guess you can say I was getting robed without a gun!
I just wish you have blocked it years ago!
So you go ahead, keep blocking accounts, keep making it impossible for the
electronics/computer hardware/software sellers to list on your site. Keep charging the
book sellers 15 percent to sell a 5.00 book.
When you have nothing left but a FEW sellers no stock, higher prices, because of no
competition, and when to prices is too high no one will buy which will mean
a whole lot LESS Sells for you.
Ebay will be there to pick up your sellers as well as YOUR BUYERS!
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| My account was well blocked on amazon recently. i was selling hardcover US edition books dont know what i did. just got one day a warning i took out my whole inventory and the other day my account was blocked. amazon never told me what happened what did i do ebay half is really gud i have been selling for so long on half i got no complaints but amazon sucks.can i take any legal action against amazon. why not we all come together and take a legal action as what amazon is doing is not legally right. there must be some legal remedies towards amazon why do the site treat sellers like they are beggars and rip them off and then shut the accounts. Any opinions. | | |
| I'll never again buy anything from Amazon. They have major shipping/customer service issues. For example, I order an item they say is in stock. I give them a credit card number, etc. Then one day goes by, two days, three days....a week. No shipping notice, no tracking number, no merchandise. Well, this was to be a gift for someone so I had to find the item elsewhere. I try to cancel the order, but they say the order has "already entered the shipping process" and can't be cancelled. Why not? They haven't shipped it. I know that, because my credit card hasn't been charged, the shipper doesn't have the item, and neither do I. In any event, this little game continues for another week. They keep saying it has shipped, but it hasn't. It's their little way of tryiing to save the sale, I guess. Well, they've lost me as a customer FOREVER. Too bad for them, I must have spent three thousand dollars there last year. | | |
| Amazon has also blocked my account and is now refunding the buyer. I sold a computer for $1,600 and now I am without a computer of money. DO NOT SELL ON AMAzON UNLESS YOU ARE INTO GIVING AWAY FREE MONEY. I have contacted every agency and organization that I can think of to complain and warn others from this CROOK. I have even contacted all of my local news stations and the Attorney General from the state of Washington. AMAZON.COM IS A THIEF AND A CROOK AND THEY HAVE STOLEN MONEY OUT OF MY KIDS MOUTHS. The sellers should band together and file a class action lawsuit against them. How are we letting them get away with stealing our money?!?!!? | | |
| after selling 26.000 in Books in three to 4 weeks on Amazon they locked up my account and all my fundsfor merchandise sold . they later shipped out the books themselves to the buyersand profited themselves, , it took me one month going into the account and refunding the buyers money back to them, my prices on books were lower priced than Amazons own prices, they dont want anyone trying to out do them on selling. everyone should all get together hire an attorney and file suit against amazon. they even charged interest on the money in the account. after refunding everyone the money left in my account was held and I never got paid for a lot of Books that were sent out, these people are the dirtiest low down people you would ever wanted to deal with, when will these people be stopped for treating people this way, | | |
Yeah, you're right, we blow nuggets. We just sold a CD to somebody and charged their acoount without proper information. Then we made them wait 2 months and did shit about it. Now when he tells us to erase the account, we say we can't for security reasons.
This actual exceprt is from the buyer. So fuck off you pieces of shit... I kept my emails and hear me. You can take your bag of dicks and refund... of course its some 12 year old that just learned about forums. Fuck Amazon and Fuck you Phony piece of shit. | | |
DO NOT MAKE A MISTAKE IN YOUR AMAZON ORDER!!!!
Good luck getting any help with an order. First off there's no phone number listed on the site. There's no place email them with a specific problem either. I had to go to the 1-800 directory to find a number!
My problem? I typed in a mailing address incorrectly (the wrong apartment number by one digit) but didn't realize it until I hit "Order Complete"! Too late. My order was sent on 11/8. It was delivered to the wrong address and sat at the USPS for 2 weeks. Then it was DELIVERED to "Wilmington, DE". The package was going to Boston, MA; I live in Charlotte, NC.
Trying to get help or information from Amazon is easily the most painful experience I've ever had with an online company. I will never shop with them again.
USE BARNES AND NOBLE OR BORDERS OR ANYONE ELSE!!!!
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| Go to paulenglish.com. You'll find phone numbers for amazon.com | | |
| I sold over $100,000 on amazon in 2 years with 97% pos feedback and they locked my account because a old lady decided she did not want the item she bought from me. she even admitted that the item was exactly as described. Amazon is a joke and an open invit to fraud. You can only communicate w/ computer controlled messages and emails. I way for them to avoid you. The will eventually fall to law suites. We must stick together and fight them. | | |
| Amazons commission charges are scandalous, a year ago I could make a profit out of selling items from their now it costs more to post the item than what amazon gives me! Amazon now takes all the postage fee's and leaves you to muster just why you decided to sell your item on their in the first place. Instead we refund our customers and advise them to buy from our website at cheaper price. | | |
First, I love blogs.
I am sort of a seller on Amazon. I don't like their service. When someone gives me a bad address or the book is lost in the mail, I get hit with the shipping cost. Sometimes they charge me when the book is lost. A-Z doesn't help the seller. I don't have the volume to make up those lost profits in future sales. They just charged my visa for some textbook that a guy says was never delivered.
Not to mention that Amazon charges way too much in terms of fees that they get to keep out of my sales. They charge the customer more for shipping than is credited to my account.
That seems like fraud. I hope that one day somebody files a class action, which is the best route to go in a suit this small. A good lawyer could tear them to pieces. | | |
I am the best and I will always be the best. You morons are just squealing on this website and you never have and never will hurt my reputation cause I am the power that drives the internet.
So please go eat a bag of dicks | | |
| I ordered my bag of dicks three weeks ago! No response!! | | |
| I would anyday rather eat a bag of dicks, than ever buy from Amazon.com again. They suck bigtime ! | | |
I sold a book in 2004 through Amazon which went through all right eventually -
Using exactly the same account details I sold three more books in 2005, but the money is not sent to the full account numbers so is sent back - and then they send it back again to the wrong account - only as far the building society and not to my account in it, still leaving off the final account number. This happens repeatedly. It has been impossible to contact a human about this - both myself and the building society have repeatedly tried to do so. As far as I am concerned they have fraudently robbed me of my money - | | |
There are no humans in Amazon.CON, so dont waste your time or money.
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Advice to current amazon sellers: Do not leave any money in your amazon account. Do your bank transfer every day. You will never know when amazon will block your account. And amazon is always illegally holding money from sellers immediately after their account is blocked. And they even say that this money may or may not be given back to you after 90 days of holding. And you will always get the same blocking notice email reply no matter what your question is. That is a sign that no human beings is reading your inquiry to amazon.
Another useful tip to deal with amazon's trick on holding the shipping fee when you refund a customer. Do not refund a customer using the refund in full option. Do two partial refunds instead. Then your shipping fee will be credited back to you. Test for yourself to see.
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| Amazon now illegally hold funds for any new accounts for up to 30 days and saying they need to conduct a broad review of the new merchants. But they will still accept money on the seller's behalf. This is not in their seller agreement. Amazon will also contact the buyers privately to ask for their oppinion about the seller. If their feedback is negative, they will not release your funds to you, and they will have it. It's like a fraud to the both and sellers and buyers, as the seller can not afford to send out all books to them if they will never know what the buyers will say to Amazon privately. And amazon can just pretend that the buyers said bad thing about the seller and therefore Amazon need to take the seller's money into their now pocket. I never saw such a crime in the sunlight. May God help us sellers and punish the criminal Amazon.com thief Now! | | |
| Just found this site after I searched for "Amazon Sucks". How I pity the sellers! I've steered away from Amazon for years because their site looks messy and there are so many better ways to shop on the net. A simple gift voucher given to me by my niece this Christmas resulted in my being obliged to register and use Amazon. I can honestly say that the big A managed to do everything wrong. Every single thing. I can't believe that people give them repeat business. I can't believe that respectable sellers deal with them. | | |
| I was going to sell on amazon but now I will not. Thank you. | | |
| Amazon.com is a vehicle for personal attacks, unethical "reviews," and poor service. My book is coming off Amazon.com, because the web department removed three good reviews instead of two bad "reviews," that weren't actual reviews, just an outlet where an enemy could vent and try to damage my reputation and prevent sales. My advice: Stay away from Amazon.com | | |
| Amazon is a terrible vehicle for selling - They bill the customer and hold on to the money and do not transfer the monies to the seller's accounts and do not respond to emails on a timely basis. They are unethical and are looking for a class action suit against them. Please contact me if you have had a similar experience. We must band together to put an end to this unfair practice. | | |
| Amazon treats all sellers as shit and criminals, please post any link where we can complain and take legal action against this devil. Thanks. | | |
| The Amazon Alliance department shutdown my account and “subsequent accounts” I cannot stress enough if you make a sell COLLECT YOUR MONEY AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE YOUR ACCOUT MAY BE PUT ON HOLD AND THEY WILL KEEP YOUR MONEY due to the fact that my competitors that bought textbooks at the same distributor were complaining through the community rules link that I was selling advanced reading copy books and instructor’s editions. I had made nearly 100K in sales for them in just over a year. They thought it was pretty funny that Jeff and his cronies “yes men” booted me off. To bad the fat assess my competitors had the same books listed what goes around comes around now their of amazon for good now to. Even though other websites allow you to sell advanced reading copies and teachers addition amazon.com does not it is in there fine print but don’t look to their customer service department to help you they removed the number from their website years ago to save money and so they did not have to deal with customers or sellers” you can easily find it if you do a google search for it”. It turns out I herd this from the horses mouth amazon.com does not look for listing violations it is your friendly competition that does you in. Amazon does not even give you a probation period they just kick you off. If you get kicked off do not open a new account with another credit card they will close it! Get a new computer they send a hidden file to your computer that identifies you and your new account will be shut down in about 2-3 weeks. Also get a new internet service they read the cookies form your computer as well as reading your ISP that identifies your computer and singles you out that is how they shutdown subsequent accounts. IF YOU DO GET SHUT DOWN JOIN TOGETHER FILE A CLASS ACTION LAW SUITE. | | |
Amazon does suck. Their shipping disclosures deceptive and I was forced to wait over one month before for books I expected I thought they would deliver in two days. When you call them their cheap labor overseas "customer support" puts you on hold and hangs up and writes unintelligible responses.
I have cancelled my account.
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What a scam!
I asked Amazon.com numerous times to pick up their partial shipment of an order they delivered and refund my money. They have so far totally ignored all the requests to pickup and refund my money.
Does amazon.com train their overseas "customer service" to help them scam people and keep money they have no right to?
Do companies use overseas "customer serivce" to bypass U.S. business practices and trade laws?
I gave them a choice of either shipping the book they failed for 5 weeks by next day delivery, or picking up the partial order they shipped and refunding all of my money on the order. Amazon.com ignore this and use their India based "customer service" to write letter after letter to illegally keep my money.
Here's one sample the the several Indian "customer service" letters amazon.com wrote on ONE order:
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From: "Amazon.com Customer Service"
Date: February 5, 2006 4:22:11 PM PST
To: California Buyer
Subject: Your Amazon.com Order
Thanks for writing to us at Amazon.com with your concern and bringing this to our attention.
First, please allow me to apologize for any inconvenience caused so far.
I have reviewed your account and can see that this experience has been far less than positive.
We strive for convenience and efficiency at Amazon.com, but in this instance we have fallen short of our goal, and I am truly sorry.
Please know that we do take the feedback andperformance records of sellers very seriously. We monitor seller performance and we will close an account when warranted.
I have brought this to the attention of the appropriate department within Amazon.com for investigation. This team deals with possible violations of our use policies.
I have researched your account, and I see that we received your A-to-z Guarantee Claim for order on yoyur previous e-mail message request.
We can indeed understand that it is a bit frustrating to wait till that length of time in such a scenario, however, please understand as Amazon Marketplace listings are created by seller and they process and ship your order, that's why, we first give seller a chance to resolve the issues at their end.
Again, I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced and express our gratitude for the patience you've displayed thus far.
Please be assured that this is not a typical Amazon.com experience and in no way did we intend for this to happen. I hope that you will give us another opportunity to prove the quality of our service to you.
Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com.
Please let us know if this e-mail resolved your question:
Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept incoming e-mail.
Best regards,
Sandeep
Amazon.com Customer Service
http://www.amazon.com
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Date: Sun Feb 05 23:41:54 UTC 2006
Subject; Cancel
To: amazon.com
From: California Buyer
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02/05/06 15:41:51
COMMENTS: Please cancel my whole order, refund my money and close my account with you.
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Selling On Amazon.com Sucks !
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Be careful requesting cancellations and refunds from amazon.com.
After I complained several times on an order and demanded a refund, I received three separte emails from amazon.com telling me I had "successfully changed communication preferences" to receive all . I had not.
Amazon.com said I would begin receiving emailing on:
Legal notices
New products
Research surveys
Renewal notices R
Shopping partners
Special offers
Notice of sales,
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this guy is right! Amazons systen caters to the customer. great if you are a buyer, but dangerous if you are a seller. customers can file claims and get refunds for no particular reason, leave negative feedback because they dont want to read the fact that standard delivery takes up to 14 business days. and amazon wont remove negative feedback when customers are just being jerks because they know they can get away with it. its very hard onyour repution unless you are a huge company that can just issues refunds whenever a customer whines. Little business cant afford to take the loss
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| Amazon cancelled a publisher's seller's account with a note that said, "We're doing it, it's final, thanks for understanding." No discussion or explanation. Amazon is a tyrant that doesn't mind ripping off little guys. | | |
I totally agree with all the above, I've been selling on amazon.com for over a year, I was making good money, I had perfectly great feedback (with the exception of some buyers who failed to ready the descriptions before the bought their item, then from one day to another Amazon sent me a very dry e-mail with the subject
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"Notice: Your Amazon.com Account"
Greetings from Amazon.com.
This message is to inform you that we have blocked your Amazon.com
Auctions, zShops and Marketplace account. Your open listings have been
cancelled and you are no longer able to sell on our site.
We have taken this action because it has come to our attention that this
account is related to an account which has been previously blocked for
violations of our Community Rules.
While we do not provide detailed information on how we link related
accounts, we have thoroughly reviewed our records and confirmed that we
have significant evidence that this account is related to another account
previously closed for community rules violations.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to resolve
your pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain accessible and you are
encouraged to refund or ship pending orders.
Your funds are on temporary hold for 90 days from the date of your final
sale. After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided we do not
receive chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your sales. If you
have further questions about your disbursement, please email
payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, please understand that the closure of an
account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are opened will
be closed as well. Thank you for your understanding with our decision.
Regards,
Item and Seller Quality
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
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Numerus e-mail request asking them for an explanation why they closed my account wasn't answered or they just replied that this has been an administrative decision and that they can't help me.
they made me lose thousands of dollars in sales and revenue, Amazon.com Sucks big time | | |
I got same email and no more reponse from Amazon since, as rude as everyone complained here:
Hello from Amazon.com.
Thank you for writing. We understand your concern about this
situation. However, while we do not provide detailed information on
how we link related accounts, we have thoroughly reviewed our
records and confirmed that we have significant evidence that this
account is related to another account previously closed for
community rules violations.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to
resolve your pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain
accessible and you are encouraged to refund or ship pending orders.
Your funds are on temporary hold for 90 days from the date of your
final sale. After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided we
do not receive chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your
sales. If you have further questions about your disbursement, please
email payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, please understand that the
closure of an account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts
that are opened will be closed as well. Thank you for your
understanding with our decision.
Best regards,
Alliance Program
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
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| I don't know why one would expect selling or buying from amazon.com to be any better than searching for books on amazon. As a tool for searching for a book, amazon is practically useless. The number of hits that come up that do not even contain one's search terms is astonishing. And two minutes ago, I clicked on the hyperlink of an author's name, thinking this would show me all titles listed as being by this author. Instead I got a very long list of books (and other "HTLM" crap), very few of which were by the author, but most of which seemed to be random titles. Amazon seems to assume its potential customers are idiots who don't know what book they're looking for. | | |
Hello from Amazon.com.
We are writing to let you know that your listings for the following items have been cancelled:
Listing ID: 0328R557514 Xbox Core Console USM
At this time, any seller will be able to list most ASINs in the Electronics and Software categories. However, only pre-approved sellers will be allowed to list against top-selling items in these categories. Xbox and Xbox 360s are included in this list of top-selling items.
So I went to sell an Xbox, sold it, and 2 weeks later before I was to get my money they sent me this lovely email up above. My favorite part is how they told me it was cancelled, this of course after I had received a 'SHIP NOW' email, and had sent it to the customer already. I sent them a scathing email back about how their poor choice or wording has now cost them another customer and seller. Not to mention I also told them I would be making a lovely phonecall to their corporate office to do nothing but complain. After that the very next day the money for the items were mysteriously in my account. That was my second time selling something on the site. I did not mind that the item is not to be sold by sellers like myself. What I do mind is being sent a idiotic email. I bought a lot of high ticket items from that site, but no more. I am with everyone else when I join the cry that AMAZON SUCKS. | | |
| I had the same problem as "screwUAmazon". I have 9,500 in my account and wont get it back for 90 days! I sent the numerous emails, but they are worthless. Can you send me a copy of the email to my email address philipcolett1 AT gmail.com I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!! | | |
| Kinda Interesting to read all this. We are a decnt seller on most selling sites and were trying Amazon for the 1st time 3 days back. We sold over 90 items in the 1st 7 hrs and then then-the so called email blocking the account w/o any reason. We have about 5000+ in the account. We were hoping that amazon would be a another avenue for sales but I guess that is not the case. Not sure but I guess time for a lawsuit. We even shipped all items to our buyers and a gesture that maybe amazon will review the feedback left by the buyer in the coming days. We'll wait and see how this proceeds. We will keep this ite posted! | | |
| anonymous, EMAIL YOUR BUYERS AND TELL THEM TO LEAVE FEEDBACK. Becuase their is no incentive for them to leave feedback, like on Ebay, they are EXTREMELY slow in leaving feedback, if ever. I sold over 500 items, and in 60 days I got about 65 feedback. I even asked them to do it, but it is like their just too lazy. | | |
| My seller account was also blocked a few weeks ago with no convincing reasons. No prior warnings, no second chance. Every time, they responded with the same email shit. Never seen a web site so arrogant and harsh on sellers. I have contributed over $12k in commission to Amazon last year. Amazon sucks. | | |
| OK i was going to sell books on amazon but not anymore. Any suggestions? | | |
| I transfered the funds to my bank account but Amazon forward the funds to next month statement. They did that several times without any reason. The account is not blocked but Amazon is keeping my hard earned money from me! This is unbelievable. Amazon wants me to ship the merchandise without getting any payment in return. This is illegal. | | |
| I was kicked off amazon.com when a buyer got the bought book for his class from me. He knew it was the wrong book but still filed an A-Z claim against me. In the claim I wrote that I was willing to give him a full refund on the return of the book no questions asked. Next thing I know they ruled the kid was wrong and there would be no refund and I was to be investigated. 24 hours later my account was blocked and I was off Amazon.com with my nice 4.2 rating for nothing. This company is nothing but a bunch of crooks and thieves. Does anyone know where else to sell that doesn’t treat there sellers like shit. | | |
| Wow thanks alot i was just about to start selling more item but when i searched "amazon suck" i find this and realized its just as bad as paypal. | | |
| I agree, i hate amazon. They are denying me to deposit $230 into my bank account. So i got pissed and i am now filing a claim and suit against for stealing my money!!! | | |
The amount of money Amazon is making on OUR money while witholding it from us must be UNREAL! I am certain that they have it in an interest bearing account!
I hope that someone does persue a class action suit as I feel it is the only way their practices would change!
Does anyone know just how Amazon determines that your account was linked to another that had previously violated TOS? Do they log IP or MAC addresses? I am using a computer given to me. I never had an account with them before and now I am being denied 800.00 plus lost sales because of their so called "investigation" | | |
| If you call Amazon customer service, you will end up with a dead end. Amazon customer service has no real power to take any decision other than explaining things and tell you to contact the bureaucrats hiding behind their computer monitors. Amazon bureaucrats have executive decisions but most of them are mean spirited and don't reply to e-mails in a professional manner. The don't face customers over the phone and therefore can take any decision regardless of the consequences. They know you can do nothing to change their decision. They can withheld your funds for a long period of time without any reason. One letter from a customer who didn't receive his $15 order, is enough to withheld thousands of dollars of your money for weeks. Even if you prove the order was shipped and was delivered, it is not enough to release thousands of dollars for weeks. I believe that Amazon makes a lot of money from sellers and without them the company will go out of business. We sell books and goods at a very low price compare to Amazon price and the low price is what attracts customers to Amazon site. I hope a class action will force Amazon to be fair and responsible. | | |
| Amazon charges about 40% commision for orders less than $10. Unbelievable!!!! | | |
| several people have mentioned "bags of dicks," in this blog; where might one obtain such a "bag o' dicks"? | | |
| do they sell bags o' dicks on eBay? I cannot find said bag of dicks on amazon. One could make a shitload of money selling such bags of dicks; you could buy one bag of dicks and break them down into individual packages and then resell them at two to three times your original investment, perhaps more when a hungry homo needs a quick dick, so any help in this area would be returned with great enthusiasm and perhaps even an individually packed dick bag. | | |
| Bert's Big Bag O' Dicks $75. Guaranteed Fresh. Bite now, suckahs! | | |
| amazon really sucks, its so glitchy and has lag. your cart items will disappear and you have to sign in everytime you want to do something. And it takes like 500000000 times longer for items to come in the mail. | | |
| hey i sold something on amazon and now two months later the buyer said that they never recieved the item. now amazon is charging me because i no longer have the shipping receipt. can anyone think of anyway i can avoid being charged? please let me know. thanks. | | |
I continue to open amazon selling accounts with different e-mail address it takes them 3-4 weeks to send the following notice.
Greetings from Amazon.com.
This message is to inform you that we have blocked your Amazon.com
Auctions, zShops and Marketplace account. Your open listings have been
cancelled and you are no longer able to sell on our site.
We have taken this action because it has come to our attention that this
account is related to an account which has been previously blocked for
violations of our Community Rules.
While we do not provide detailed information on how we link related
accounts, we have thoroughly reviewed our records and confirmed that we
have significant evidence that this account is related to another account
previously closed for community rules violations.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to resolve
your pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain accessible and you are
encouraged to refund or ship pending orders.
Your funds are on temporary hold for 90 days from the date of your final
sale. After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided we do not
receive chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your sales. If you
have further questions about your disbursement, please email
payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, please understand that the closure of an
account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are opened will
be closed as well. Thank you for your understanding with our decision.
Regards,
Item and Seller Quality
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
I have no idea as of why they shut me down in the first place, I was a good seller with Great feedback, I do believe that they manipulate sellers so they don't face competition between there own sellers, they dislike sellers who sell items for cheap but they will favor sellers who price there items higher. | | |
The Amazon customer feedback is not fair. In my case, I ship orders on time. However, many customers (about 3%) do not receive their orders for one reason or another and blame me for that. According to tracking, the orders were delivered. May be the customer is not updated or he is lying or the order was delivered to the wrong address. Most of the time, the buyer give me one star for that. Unfair.......
The second problem is that many customers do not read my comment about the item I sell. A buyer contacted me about her order. She claimed the radio she received is of different color and she expected to receive two radios not one. According to Amazon description the purchase is for one radio and it is sold sealed as one radio. Amazon description " 1 ..... radio ..........".
The picture also is for one radio. In the seller comment I described the item carefully including color, etc.
The buyer also gave me one star. It sucks. Since I sell only 30-50 per month and few satisfied customers leave a feedback, most unsatisfied customers leave a bad feedback to take revenge. It sucks. | | |
| Amazon.com is a free-for-all vehicle for slander. "Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy," a book about how caffeine causes mental illness, has been targeted by a person writing under phony names because the low class psycho has a personal vendetta against the author. There are more "reviews" on Amazon.com about this recently released book than books sold. Can't Amazon do the math? (See welcometothedancecaffeineallergy.com .) In addition, someone advertised a carnival on the author's web page to prove the point that anything can be posted on Amazon.com. The advertisement is still on the author's page, but Amazon had no problem removing good reviews about this book. (Does anyone at Amazon have a high school education?) Some lawyer should get together with all targeted authors and have a field day with Amazon.com. | | |
Kathryn Sheehan Amazon.com Chief Counsel was a Prostitute- and Drug addict.-
For years she got her kick doing to orgies - why is she employed with Amazon.com | | |
| Yeah Im gonna get amazon too, Im a seller and they wont adhere to my bank transfer of funds I sooo rightly earned. | | |
| thanks for this blog--I was going to sell on amazon.com but have decided ebay is the only way to go. I have not had any problems buying on amazon.com, but when I read how much percentage they take from your sales, I was hesitant. Using a hypothetical $3.00 videotape, I figured I'd only make $1.00 on the sale at the most, after they took all their commissions and fees. Too bad they treat sellers so badly. | | |
| Please check this website, as there are numerous complaints against amazon.com here from both buyers and sellers. | | |
| I finally foound how to get amazon in trouble. it turns out that there is a law on commission rates and how much a company can take. Go figure that amazon is way over that number and there is a big fine for breaking that law!! | | |
pay pal does the same thing, this is a pattern with these laundering businesses.
come up with a reason to withhold peoples funds for 45-180 days, then MAKE MONEY ON INTEREST.
The front is for 'security' purposes, but make no mistake about it, they are making millions. Someone really needs to stand up and sue | | |
| You can call Amazon's "Seller hotline" and actually talk to a real person (877)251-0696 (Everyone should call and def complain!). Amazon is a scandalous site and I would not recommend it to anyone! We too got shut down for NO REASON. How they are still in business is beyond me... You would think they would appreciate the REDICULOUS 15% they make off each and everyone of our sells!!! Oh well on to Half.com! | | |
| It's still better than EBay. =) | | |
I cannot wait for Amazon to close down, I am praying for the day it happens and I will throw a party for everyone when it does.
About 6 months ago, I tried selling on Amazon and sold over $2000 in less than 2 days. Knowing that I could not continue to sell this much without the cash to pay for more shipping, I placed my account on vacation. 100 orders later, it finally went on vacation! Well, the 3rd day, I got an email from Amazon saying they would hold my funds for up to 30 days, just to verify I was a legit seller... OK, fine, I emailed over 280 tracking numbers for all my sales during the next week, and my funds were released.
2 Months later, I found out I missed an order with an A-Z claim (the buyer never emailed me.) I continued to sell over $2000 every week, at lest 100 orders, and then I had a claim. I immediately sent the refund and an apology, and the buyer left positive feedback. That night as normal, I transferred my balance to my bank account as normal.
The next morning, the transfer was reversed and I got the email stating that my funds were on hold now for up to 30 days because of the claim. I had only received 20 feedbacks from over 1,000 sales (that's a whole other issue) so the one claim placed me in the "At Risk" category.
When I replied to the email, basically telling them to shove their system up their.... I received an automated response picked up by the word "close." The sentence it was used in was: "Holding over $2000 for a $8 claim is close to fraud." I replied to the auto-reply, only saying that I wanted a real person to answer my email that was attached. It picked up on that word "close" again in the attachment, and sent the same reply, word for word.
Almost 3 months, and a phone call twice daily finally got my funds released to me. I contacted the SEC for trading violations about halfway through, and they are currently investigating mine as well as many other claims to the same effect.
Amazon lost over 10 million on their "Prime" shipping services in 2004, therefore they are making up that money by using money in their banks to generate the difference. When they run behind on profits, they just step up their efforts to hold more funds. In 3 months, earning 5% per month from 100 sellers accounts totalling $50,000 ($500 each) = $2500. The number of sellers is actually much, much higher with the mandatory 30 days (they forget to mention this when you start selling) plus the standard 2 weeks waiting period when you first start up.
Sounds like a great way to pad the bottom line of another large corporation. Another reason I am so happy to be out of the sick world of Corporate America! | | |
amazon blocked me for life
i got 5 emails in 3 weeks from buyers who said thy did not get there books
so i emailed one and told him he was a creep,i was getting 1 star ratings from them,mother f them | | |
Wow... I'm, really glad I looked into all the comments before I sold on Amazon.com. Way too many horror stories!!
I will not do any selling on Amazon.com.
http://www.bestloudshirts.com | | |
I which I had read this before selling on amazon, I use to buy from amazon, then decided to sell stuff, I started getting allot of orders from amazon, as soon as I did a tranfer to my bank account of my earnings, I started getting people trying to return the items, I always fell on the days a balance transfer had to be done. I had clients saying that they bought PC133 memory when they wanted to buy pc100, well the item said PC133, you got what you ordered. I also got a person saying they did not recieve the goods, after calling the USPS, I found out the item was delivered, a few days later, the same person who claimed he did not get his goods, game em a good review on the item he purchase... huge turn around, from watign him money back for items he claimed he did not get, to a positive review for that item.. I guess he got it after all.... every single item purchased the person wanted to return, and always on the days I did a balance transfer. for the content on the email I got the these "orders" it was my opinion amazon would generate fake orders from made up clients, then wanted there money back, after they had baited people into becoming a paying merchant.
they forced me to give people refund, only when I woudl catch them as lying about what they claimed, would they drop the refund issue, also I was always being blacked mailed ... if I did not refund every one, even if there was nothign wrong, they would give me a bad review? after knowing how sellers get scamed in amazon, I dont give a **** what reviews I got, I just waned out from that site. amazon runs a scam on sellers, and from what I have read thay have been doing it for years..
amazon Sucks big time... S.A.F.R. | | |
Amazon.com says 2Q earnings fall 58 pct. By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer
SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday that second-quarter earnings plunged nearly 58 percent as the online retailer focused on investing in a shipping deal and new technologies.
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The results sent Amazon.com shares down over 9 percent in after-hours trading.
For the three months ended June 30, the Seattle-based company reported earnings of $22 million, or 5 cents per share, compared with earnings of $52 million, or 12 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.
In a conference call, Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak said net income was hurt by approximately $10 million because of the termination of a contract with Toys R Us Inc. Without that cost, Szkutak said the company would have earned about 7 cents per share for the quarter.
Sales for the quarter were $2.14 billion, a 22 percent increase over the $1.75 billion a year earlier. The company said sales would have grown 23 percent if not for the negative effect of foreign exchange rates.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial were expecting second-quarter earnings of 7 cents per share on revenue of $2.1 billion.
In a statement, Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said the company was focused on investing in Amazon Prime, which for $79 per year gives people unlimited two-day free shipping. The company also is investing in new technology, he said.
Amazon.com shares fell 72 cents or 2.1 percent to close at $33.59 in regular trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Results were released after the markets closed. In after-hours trading, shares were down an additional $3.27, or 9.7 percent.
In the past 52 weeks, shares have traded between $31.52 and $50.
For the current third quarter, Amazon.com said it expects net sales of between $2.17 billion and $2.33 billion.
For the full year, the company is expecting sales of between $10.15 billion and $10.65 billion. Previously, it had forecast earnings of between $9.95 billion and $10.5 billion.
For the six months ended June 30, profits were $73 million or 17 cents per share, compared with net earnings of $130 million, or 31 cents per share, in the first six months of 2005. Sales for the first two quarters were $4.42 billion, compared with $3.66 billion a year earlier.
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| Wow, guess I should thank Amazon for shielding me as a buyer from all of you whining, dodgy-sounding sellers. You people are the reason why I refuse to use eBay and other smaller sites. How embarrassing for you all! | | |
| Amazon.com sucks. I bought a DVD there and it turned out to be in GERMAN! I asked about returning it and they said, "Don't worry, it's in German AND English." So I tried it out and it won't play on my DVD player because it is in PAL format. Now they say they won't take it back because I opened it. They are a fradulent bunch of scumbags who deserve to go to jail! But I will have my revenge. I will dispute the charges with the bank, claiming fraud. This always works. Just save all your correspondence with the fraudulant sh!theads so the bank can see your good-faith efforts. Eat this, Amazon! | | |
| I just started selling books and CDs on Amazon 3 weeks ago after 2 years on eBay. I was doing really well shipping 10-12 items every 2 days. I aquired a small $300.00 in my account for 2 weeks, and when it came time to transfer my funds, my account was blocked. No email explaining, no help from customer service. I emailed their in house security which I was asked to do(they have no phone) and then was informed by customer disservice that they are a small department and it could be a week before they get back to me. In the meantime, they are holding my money for 90 days and I have no idea why they blocked my account and cancelled 4 orders that came in about the same time. If this turns out as disastrious as alot of these posts on here, I will definently join in with the above people and file a lawsuit. I did bookmark the attorneys website that someone posted (THANKS!) above. They made $200.00 from me and I made $300.00 and then I paid for shipping and already had paid for the books. I am not a happy camper at all right now. I had no idea until I experienced this myself firsthand how much they do SUCK!!! | | |
| OK! I wanted to add that I too got one of those computer generated letters from Amazon saying that they did not have to tell me why they have blocked/closed my account and kept my money. I am blown away. I did everything with such pride and honor and have NO reason why they made this decision. AMAZON does suck and I must say that they have not heard the last from me. I have sold on eBay with 380 100% positive feedback but just thought Amazon was a good place to sell my books. Does anyone have any advice? eBay or half.com for books? Would appreciate any and all input. I will also be happy to participate in any class action lawsuit. Keep me in the loop. I must say that Amazon did me a favor as I would never want to help them make another dollar generated by me. They SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! And for the one person who said that we were whiny babies, you suck too. | | |
| can someone give me some advice , i opebed my account 2 weeks ago , have about £450 in the account , amazon sent me an email saying they blocked account as it is related to another blocked account , this is not true as i do not have another account but they wont say wht they think this and they say they are holding funds for 90 days , help please | | |
| 93% approval rating and shut down because of a cunt which wanted to say I sold her a bootleg, Jolanta Bryla, she said the dvd was fading and he sound quality was bad, just to get a refund, but she didnt want to send back the dvd. It really hurt me because I have spent hours taking care of customers and listing over 700 items, now its all gone. | | |
| I used to work for a company before it was bought out by Amazon.com, as well as while Amazon owned it. I can honestly say, I loved my job until Amazon bought us out. They don't care about their employees (our Christmas Bonus was a stress reliever ball, how insulting!) and their computer system crashed constantly, making it impossible for us employees to do our jobs. They told us these things were because with the money they saved from not giving a Christmas bonus and not upgrading their computer system to a decent one allowed them to lower prices for customers. Everyone still working in my division is looking for other employment, they hate working for them that much. The pay was decent, however what was expected of us was ridiculous! From what I've heard from my ex coworkers, several people who paid via check (which was allowed in our division) from MONTHS ago and have refunds due to them have STILL not gotten their refund because they don't know how to refund checks. My father also worked for them, and saw that they were incorrectly charging sales tax in one state, he emailed Corporate Accounting about it, and the response he got was "don't tell us how to do our job". Both my father and I got out of Amazon as fast as we could. Even the manager of our division quit, and he'd been with the company for a decade. When I got laid off from the job I had after Amazon, my mother in law asked if I could go back to Amazon. I told her I'd scrub floors before going back to Amazon. I dealt with countless unhappy Amazon customers who would ruthlessly yell at me, but I couldn't blame them, and I told them so. All I could do was apologize, tell them I'd be upset too, and tell them I wish I could do more but with the capabilities of their substandard computer system, I couldn't. Usually they took pity on me, but also said they'd never order from us again and then wanted a supervisor to tell them so as well. The moment I left work on my last day there was one of the most relieved moments of my life! I still get emails from ex-coworkers telling me how much they hate it there, and several people have quit. I don't blame them. Oh, and hear this. Jeff Bezos, the owner, is building a rocket. I heard this on National Public Radio, he was found out because they discovered he was having rocketfuel delivered to what looked like an airforce wing and ended up making him pay for a permit. So the guy can build a rocketship, but not upgrade his computer system, as well as the customer service??? He seemed like a nice guy whenever he was at our site, but in reality, he's a greedy man making his money by screwing his customers. Do NOT buy or sell on Amazon, go to Ebay instead. They are MUCH more reliable. | | |
I have to agree. I just sold my first item (a book) and i didnt realize I made a mistake in the numbers of my saving account. I can not believe they do not have a verification process such as the one in paypal that they in fact make a deposit of a few cents to check your account is correct. I tried to contact them, but the phone number is only for BUYERS. We, sellers, have to use email only. I say fuck them. I am very upset that I need to urgently contact them and I have to wait until they reply my email.
Amazon sucks for sellers. | | |
| Oh i see.... so they keep the money for 14 days....now I understand how this amazon works....mmmm | | |
| Just tallied up all their fees and figured out what Amazon is making off my little garage sale (actually I'm selling my CD collection). According to what I was told, Amazon is enjoying an over 43% commission of every CD I sell. I will admit that I am considering their allowance for s+h to be a wash (which it is). I am the one buying the packaging and doing the packing and driving to the post office so actually I'm probably not even breaking even. Anyway, that notwithstanding, on the sale of a used cd for $6.00, Amazon gets $2.59 which is more than 43% of the gross. Unreal...how does this Bazos guy sleep at night? Even more puzzling, how does he continue to insist that Amazon is not making a profit? Also note I asked the attendant at seller support (who was very nice by the way and of course is probably being paid a pittance if the way they treat sellers is any indication of how they treat their other employees) if the "closing fee" and "variable closing fee" involved any human action and he said it was most likely all automated, which of course it is. | | |
Amazon.com cancelled my account
I sued the Bastard in Arbitration court and won $87, 500. Has Amazon cancelled your account, if so file a claim it’s easy and cheaper than hiring a lawyer.
Go to
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3. “Online Filing”
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Amazon Alliance is a joke.
They have zero phone number for support.
Sellers should move to Ebay or even Overstock.com to build thier orginization. Both of these companies serve the seller and the buyer mutually. They also take the time to pick up the phone. They understand building companies and can be more suggestive.
Amazon.com is known for bullying the seller. Always taking the side of the buyer. Therefore as a seller you are at risk. They are known for holding funds for 90 days. Suspensions without any notice. Amazon suspends sellers "without warning" consistantly. Justifying building a bussines on Amazon can be bad news. Not a good investment.
They also dont pay instantly. Yuck! Who wants to sell something and get paid in 5 days to 2 weeks. Miserable.
The Feedback system is old school. Have you noticed the low feedbacks of sellers on Amazon vs Ebay? Hmm? someone keeps getting suspended...
The only people who make it are Amazon themselves or a book seller. | | |
Could you not tell Amazon sucked by the site?
Seriously who designs a e-commerce website to sell products, however the products cant have individual attributes? How do you sell colors of any individual item?
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Amazon is so full of itself it makes me sick. As a buyer and seller. THEY SUCK A PHAT ONE. Pathetic service. Agreed Ebay puts Amazons face in the grass. Alliance defending the customer. Righto. SCREWING SELLERS IS THEIR SPECIALTY.
PATTY AT OVERSTOCK is focusing in on making buyers and sellers happy. STAY TUNED FOR AMAZON cant make a nickle on a 20 billion sold. | | |
| Your right Overstock.com has better prices all day long......................................................... | | |
| Rumor has it Amazon does not play fair, shutting down sellers for selling competitive products on thier site at lower prices. Is this true or false? Heard it from several sellers. | | |
Hello from Amazon.com.
Thank you for writing to us. We regret that Alliance does not offer
phone support at this time. As we have told you previously, we are
unwilling to reinstate your account.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to
resolve your pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain accessible
and you are encouraged to refund or ship pending orders.
Any remaining funds may be reserved for up to 90 days from the date of
your final sale. After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided
we do not receive chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your
sales. If you have further questions about your disbursement, please
email payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, please understand that the closure
of an account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are
opened will be closed as well. Thank you for your understanding with
our decision.
Best regards,
Alliance Program
Amazon.com | | |
| I have had zero warnings and they booted me. Called it a technicality among their software. Anyone else have this problem? They wont work with me on it either. | | |
| yeah amazon sucks ! i have been on there site and had numerouse accounts. they ranged from 2-3 years to over 4 months . they give no warnings and give bull***t excuses. i had accounts on there and they would find out about them . now some one said to outsmart them at there own game!! you can have numerouse accounts this is how you do it. go open a buissneess or several ones. in your state then go get a new bank account in another bank then a new po box and change your internet service and change your hard ware on your computer or by a new one .they read your nic card ip address and maybe harddrive. once done you are on your way!! screw them they are worse than the nigerian scammers!!!! remember each account needs a seperate computer and isp do not use one and log in and out of accounts. they said this was ok for a household to use one computer and multiple accounts.BullS**T thats what happened.shut down asap!! | | |
| Has anyone ever read the fine print in the participation agreement at Amazon? What a crock of shit... | | |
| anyone know any real contact information for amazon alliance, i need to talk to someone who will listen and can do things, i cant stand these automated responses, and these customer service reps who get paid $4.50/hr | | |
| I think my name best describes my opinion. Amazon.com does treat sellers like shit in my opinion. Anybody ever notice the same now it all people are always in their message board. I ask a question on new sellers and these people just hammer you like your a dumb ass. Maybe they need to admit they are full time paid message people. Nice career path right...I would like to see the job application. Must be 37 inches tall. | | |
| Amazon is getting worse by the minute and takes no responsibility. The feedback system is nothing . . .the corrupting of one vendors listings by other vendors is rediculous! And this is the vendors problem to keep fixing? Amazon is losing mechants faster than it is gaining them . . . for a reason! | | |
We sent over all the proper information for payment with tracking numbers and this is what we received back. Let me know what angles people have used in handling this company. Amazon does not treat people well.
Greetings from Amazon.com.
Thank you for contacting us. Due to the status of your account your
funds are reserved until we are sure all items have shipped and no A-z
Guarantee Claims are received against your account. Your account will
be evaluated 90 days after the date of your final sale, which was
August 14, 2006. For questions regarding why your account has been
blocked, please contact alliance@amazon.com.
Per section 5. j. of the Amazon.com Participation Agreement:
j. We reserve the right to delay initiating the transfer of Payment
Transaction credits to a Seller's bank account (or sending paper
checks) pending an investigation if we, in our sole discretion,
believe Buyer or Seller may have violated the Participation Agreement.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Participation Agreement,
if we determine, in our sole discretion, that Seller has violated this
Participation Agreement, we may refuse to deliver a Payment
Transaction credit to Seller and may instead maintain the amount of
such credit in a trust account or may return the amount of the credit
to Buyer. We will not be liable to Seller if we act in accordance with
the provisions of this Section.
Best regards,
Payments Specialist
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I opened a seller account back in July and was selling used books that I had on Amazon. One day one of my buyers emailed me asking why I never sent a verification that I received her order. I tried to sign onto my account, but found it blocked. I learned that Amazon blocked my account. They gave me no reason. Later this customer wrote to me that Amazon informed her that my account had problems receiving payments and that they were refunding her her money. I contacted Amazon about what the problem receiving payments was, and they refused to give me any answer. They had their Alliance group email me some cut and paste fine print. They would not inform me of how they determine to whether or not to reimburse buyers and how to verify that buyers did or did not receive their orders. It has been 3 months since they closed my account and I still have not received any contact regarding the status of their review and whether I am getting any money back for the books I sold.
My brother had previously tried to sell his used textbooks on Amazon, and they closed his account for no reason. One of the customer service reps accidently leaked that the reason was that my brother's address that he gave for his bank account did not match the bank account's records regarding his address. He contacted his bank and verified that the information he gave matched up. When he tried to inform Amazon of this, they just sent him a cut and paste copy email of the fine print citing that they would not budge on their decision to close his account.
Anyhow, I'm reading on this site that many people have been screwed over by Amazon without any information as to what is going on and what is happening to their money. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit of sorts filed against Amazon for their practices?
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| If you sell on Amazon, they do have a phone number - 1-866-2AMAZON or 1-866-226-2966 | | |
| seriously what is the alliance telephone number? | | |
| I ran a successful business selling on amazon.com . I had a storefront too but it was the online business that kept everything running. Then amazon decided to block my account for a bs reason. After repeated attempts to get my account back up, I am doing what everyone who has been screwed by them, I am suing them. For alot. My business is bankrupt due to the fact that they stopped my source of income and are holding onto money from sales that they still want me to complete even though since I'm a small business with no extra money, I need that money from the sales to ship all this product. So I think more should step up and sue them for what they have done. Its not the first and it won't be the last time they do this to someone else. I am suing for loss of business, stress and a whole lot more. | | |
| Amazon is Public nightmare in my opinion. | | |
amazon sucks ! when you first open the account they say welcome we will transferr your money in 14 days then sure as shit 3 days before you are expected to have your funds transfered they send you a letter of congratulaions. but we will hold your money that you rightfully earned for 45 days so that we can make interest on it and you can be a fucking stupid moron and keep mailing your items out as we keep acepting orders on your behalf! what a crock of shit!! then the sellers say"fuck this im not shipping my items if i did not get paid"! so what happens the buyer emails you and gets pissed at you when you tell them you did not get paid and they think that your lying to them .buyers trust amazon? screw them!!amazon has over 1800 dollars of my money!!and i know i will never see it so what i did was held back my orders and now the buyers are scrambling to find a replacement .amazon and all there 2 year old preppie kids that work there and think they are smart ?what you do is what im doing right know im emailing this web page to everyone over the internet so that they can see how amazon is screwing the buyers and sellers!!
sellers should sell on other sites . the only thing they are not well known except for ebay, and the sales look dismal.but amazon should be sued by all sellers and chop them down from taking over the internet !! they suckKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
theiving bastards!!!!! | | |
| Please use this blog as a place to build a class. At the time there is enough sellers and buyers who have been troubled we can form a class and go forward. Then it becomes a matter of time. | | |
| They took my money and told me 90 days. yuck. | | |
| Anyone have good contact information for Amzn? | | |
My seller account was blocked after selling nearly 1000 items on the site successfully. I made the mistake of delivering an item personally when I noticed the buyers address was two blocks away from me.
Subsequently I openned a second account using a friend's checking account and credit card. After a number of sales and perfect feedback they sent me an email that they'd blocked the account and somehow figured out that the new account was connected to the old one. Does anyone have any information on how they did this and what methods they use to figure this out?
They would not divulge their methods. I was using a completely different bank account, credit card and identity. They blow and their a-z guarantee system is kangaroo court completely skewed in the buyers favor. How can they expect you to be responsible for shipments that you sent and the post office misdirected, didn't deliver, or sent to the wrong address because the BUYER gave the wrong delivery address or ignored delivery notices that were left? There were a number of occasions when some irate person had complained repeatedly that their purchase never arrived and eventually I'd get it returned to me with numerous delivery attempt markings that the post office had put on it. They have been withholding funds and using the float to earn money for themselves and they should be punished. Their policy of blocking a seller forever without any explanation and withholding seller funds is shameful. | | |
| these mother fuckers should fucking die!! they are stealing from everyone and all the sellers on their site. and send bullshit emails about some crappy review of a seller account .fuck amazon and their whole website they suck horse dick!!! they should be banned from the internet lets sue!!!! | | |
| they read your ip address and provider, cookies, mac address and possibly your hard drive so change these and your banking info and you are set to | | |
Please now, I have to hold all your funds for 90 days as the interest alone is barley enough to feed my 24/7 coke habit. I cant be expected to use my own $billions of dollars, why not use the little guy as a piece of toilet paper, take away sales and also keep the money. Yes if amazon was a real business interest would be awarded to the sellers that we hold their money, but amazon is not a bank and we have no knowledge on how to be a bank, hey we cant even do what we do best. Take a look at some independent ratings of our service:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller_info.pl?seller_id=2077
Almost 50% of our customers are unhappy with our service, but no one knows because we dont have to have customers post feedback about us. If they did no one would buy from us they would only buy from third party sellers. | | |
Good thing I read these posts...I was about to start selling items on Amazon.com as a second internet storefront.
Thanks for the info as now I will NOT make the mistake! | | |
| I have used Amazon for the past couple of years, my troubles started all last year. I got a computer generated email that my account was being closed due to violations of their "community agreement". I inquired by email serveral times and never received an answer as to what rule exactly I violated. I even had my attorney inquire with them and she received the same monotonous response!!! They held my money for 90 days! My livelihood! THEN, I changed business names and email, bank accounts etc but just as soon as my profits started to reach the same level as before, I was blocked and I had violated another community rule again! My attorney contacted corporate headquarters and received the same response as I did in email. After reading the entiries on this page, I am CONVINCED that Amazon is just trying to protect the business they have contracts with (i.e. Barnes and Noble etc) and not worrying about the little guys. Well here is a shocker, the little guys are what makes them! I sincerely hope that the government is tuned into this fraudulent business and that they are shut down for misappropriation of funds!! MINE and YOURS! | | |
| There is an oppurtunity to do a class action lawsiut if you were recently forced to stop selling in the toys and games section of Amazon. It is also an easy small claims court lawsuit (unfair business practices) as they gave very small notice and require you to have product on hand. They are liable for the product on hand IF you have proof of purchase! You state comptroller website will have the info on who to sue (the company's rep) as you have to serve a person! GOOD LUCK | | |
| just started selling on amazon received 1 transfer to my bank account . have 100% feedback and then my account was locked called customer service they said ????????????? then amazon blocked my account no warning no nothing . what the fuck!! have shipped out expensive items and they have my money!! i do not know what to do i had no claims and have been selling only for a month! they should be shut down | | |
Who does Amazon think they are? Telling sellers they should email alliance and be polite about having thier money stolen, yes stolen people. How would you define it if you sold someone something and they said" in 90 days we will paying you maybe?" Seems like they are abusing a few laws here by pushing a contract 90 % of the people do not read. Hired help from Amazon is all over the new seller message board. Taunting Amazon , literally telling sellers be nice, be polite. Refund the buyer even when they steal from you.JOKE! Serriously trash garbage orginization. At least dont show all the ids crdus4, rssbooks,rebeccasbooks,flyinghouse, all with the same registration dates Registered: 2/8/06 .
You guys are a Joke. | | |
| i am another seller that got screwed by amazon! 100% feedback ,held my money for 20 days then was allowed to sell alittle bit than blocked my account and have money locked up because of them. no emails as to why they did it then get a response that they are holding it for 90 days .what the fuck!! i shipped my items out on time and no complaints now i am out my money and my items 2000.00 dollars!!!!!i wrote all the television news station and wrote about their buisness practices and how they are stealing money from people that sell on there website!! i even linked THIS THREAD to show them the truth about amazon and they should be shut down !!!! only been selling for a month on there site fuck them... i will keep emailing the major news stations through out the united states to stop them fro stealing. the little sellers are what is keeping them alive not them selves no one buys from them just 3rd party sellers . so it will be due time when amazon will not exist !!!! | | |
Post on this board the emails of the television orginizations for more support.
I would love to support you and so would others. | | |
| I too had my account closed. I built a large inventory over years of selling, and with absolutely no notice my account was shut down and they held on to thousands of dollars. I was without a job, my net 30 distributor accounts became unpayable and I was stuck with a warehouse bill, a bunch of books and no income. I love how amazon turns it's sellers into net 90 distributors and simoutaneasly cuts off their future source of income. Where's my severance package. I owe my distributors 12k and amazon owes me another couple k. What the f. I put 4 years of my life into this!!! And now I only have a debt and thoussands of books to dispose of at my expense! I'm in on any type of class action. Here's an email address if you'd like to email me, I'll help put it together or be a hub. A-Zclassaction@mothymonarch.com Feel free to email me with stories or whatever you have. If I hear from enough people I'll register a domain and put up a site for this and maybe we can even put together a google adwords fund so that our site can come up when people google for amazon products. I'm not into working for a corporation for free for years! | | |
AMAZON SHOULD BE STOPPED !! THEY OFFER A WEBSITE TO SELL YOUR ITEMS ON.IF THEY DO NOT WANT TO PAY YOU THAN THEY SHOULD NOT OF HAD A THIRD PARTY SELLING MARCKETPLACE!!
I RAN A SUCCESFUL BUISNESS. ON THEIR SITE FOR OVER 2 YEARS. NO PROBLEMS ,ALL OF A SUDDEN MY ACCOUNT GETS BLOCKED .FOR WHAT? I NEVER HAD GOTTEN A STRAIGHT ANSWER AND NO RETURN EMAILS.. THERE SELLER SUPPORT TEAM HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS!!THEY CANT EVEN HELP YOU. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY YOUR ACCOUNT IS CLOSED AND THEY SAY THAT THEYY CANT TELL YOU? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT ALL ABOUT! YOU ARE SELLING ON THERE SITE YOUR MERCHANDISE THAT YOU HAVE TO SHIP OUT, YOU MAIL OUT ALL YOUR ITEMS WITH TRACKING TO PROVE THEY WERE MAILED SO THAT YOU HAVE PROOF AND THEY CANT TELL YOU WHY THEY HAVE YOUR MONEY ON HOLD AND WHY YOUR ACCOUNT IS BLOCKED! FUCK YOU !!thats my money .not yours ! that is why they do not set up paypal for market place selling. they want to control your money like a puppet. and when they block it you cant even get into your account to see what is going on with it. they wipe you clean like you never ever existed!!
i lost everything. feedback was 100% no claims and no reason why. this company should be stopped they think they can do this because they have conquered the internet! they think this because us sellers let them shit on us.!! fuck them !! i to will email all the news staions and get the word out!! amzon is stealing sellers money because there profits are down 10 million from last year so they steal our money to make it up and hold our accounts up to 90 days for interest!!!
EAT SHIT AND DIE AMAZON!! YOU AND YOUR BULLSHIT TEAMS (ALLIANCE SELLER SUPPORT)THAT YOU HAVE THAT CANT EVEN WIPE THERE ASS!!!! | | |
does anyone know how does amazon link accounts.
i had an account for a while under my personel name. then they blocked it after 2 years with no explanation 98% feedback .i decided to open another account used a buissness name and banking and cc. changed isp hard drive and mac ethernet card. in 1 month they shut it down even with tracking # and 100% feedback. so how do they know. do they have an insource to the banks . do they have people in the banks on there accounts. what the fuck is up with amazon. they do not want multiple account users why not?why is it that they are able to trace you back even with a diffrent account and even with a new computer or changed hardeware. someone has to have an answer. because if it is done illegally for them to have access to any more information about you then what you have given them then it will be amajor lawsuit.. they have to be doing something illegal. please post your opinion lets screw these bastards. i never received an email reply or my money on hold from them 1550.00!!!! | | |
| I've been selling items on amazon since 2002 and have 100% positives. However, I am going to take my business- I buy far more books than I sell- elsewhere because they charged my account for a book I sold which became lost in the mail due to customer error. The semi-literate buyer (you should have seen her e-mails) put the wrong address on her order. I even have a copy of the e-mail where she admitted to making the error. Made no difference to them. I cancelled orders I had in place, deleted my wishlist, and closed both my seller and buyer accounts. Fuck amazon. | | |
| We need to unite against this company. We need to file a class action suit as someone earlier suggested AND we need to report them to the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org). Amazon is a member listed, lets rip them a new one........ | | |
Yep, another victim has fallen. Amazon just shut me down with $4000 in the Amazon vault. All efforts to contact someone with compassion in their Alliance department have fallen on deaf ears. They must employ ex-cons who are so hardened they shit bricks. 1 1/2 years of selling, great feedback, great customers even repeat customers and I get the official "FUCK YOU" form letter. 45 days ago I found a new wholesaler for electronics and other items and listed them. Had 30 to 50 sales a day and I was in hog heaven. I thought I had finally found my "Ticket". Nope, the minute you start doing too well, they shitcan your ass. Obviously, Amazon figures they can hold millions of dollars from resellers in their accounts, collect interest and boost their bottom line for their investors. Wow, look at Amazon.com's quarterly profits and bottom line. Little do the investors know that a large chunk of that bottom line is illegally stated.
Looks like Amazon.com is another Enron. They just haven't been caught yet. Now, with a new democratic congress, maybe it's time to go after these cock suckers. Up their and the fucking horse they rode in on!
By the way, fuck amazon.com by purchasing from ex-amazon resellers directly. I am willing to entertain the idea of setting up a new website where we can find each others webstores and buy from each other.
Let me know. My store is www.GetaFreePrinter.com for inkjet & toner and soon electronic items as well. | | |
I started selling through Amazon three years ago and made some money and the experience was good till I started to receive from my supplier used or refurbished electronics as new. So I have to return some of the merchandise to my wholesale supplier and I was forced to cancel few of the orders I received from Amazon customers. After that I received a letter from Amazon stating my account was closed permanently.
My daughter started a new account and I helped her to manage the small business during the first week. I gave up the business of selling at Amazon or anywhere else since my own online business is doing very well and I have no need to do business with Amazon or Ebay.
I have my own webpage and charge my customers directly and also I sell unique products that has no real competition.
After 2-3 weeks my daughter received a letter from Amazon that her account was closed permanently. I was angry and send Amazon a letter to explain things. I was honest as usual and Amazon opened my daughter account and still she is still in business. Thank you Amazon.
Sometimes Amazon is fair but also can make hard unjustified decisions. To be honest with you I started my own online business (not Amazon related) over 16 years ago and processed thousands of transactions and had few complaints over that long period (may be less than 10 complaints). However, I had about 5% complaints from Amazon customers. I believe some of them receive the product but deny receiving it in order to get it free. Most are honest but one bad apple can really defeat you with a tag of $200+. I blame the UPS and FedEx for not taking signiture and checking ID card.
I had no problems such as that with my customers buying directly from me. | | |
| I too have been screwed by Amazon. I was successful selling new hard drives and had over $9000 scheduled to transfer into my bank account on November 15. But on November 17 I checked and found all my money in Reserve. I have no access to it. I received no email from Amazon on this. Customer service is useless and just asks me to be patient. But I ask what the policy is for holding my money, when will I get it? They only tell me to email merchant-reserve-inquiry@amazon.com. Another time I called they referred me to merchant-approval@amazon.com. I have sent email to both multiple times with a read receipt and got no responses at all. Now I have to pay my credit card and will be forced to pay the minimum payment until Amazon unlocks my money. After reading this entire page (which I wish I read before selling on Amazon) I have closed my store and refuse to sell here. If you are a seller, AVOID AMAZON. | | |
| They did the same to my account like Dan. It is too bad especially during the shopping season. A high credit card debt and no income for at least 30 days. Amazon is abusing merchants. No disputes whatsoever. It looks to me they reserve funds whenver they need money especially the money that belongs to poor merchants who cannot afford to sue them. | | |
When you go to request your fund you receive this!!!!! Amazon just truly treats sellers horrible in my opinion. Call them up and learn
As you know, your account will be evaluated 90 days after the date of
your final sale, which was ___________.
Per section 5. j. of the Amazon.com Participation Agreement:
j. We reserve the right to delay initiating the transfer of Payment
Transaction credits to a Seller's bank account (or sending paper
checks) pending an investigation if we, in our sole discretion,
believe Buyer or Seller may have violated the Participation Agreement.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Participation Agreement,
if we determine, in our sole discretion, that Seller has violated this
Participation Agreement, we may refuse to deliver a Payment
Transaction credit to Seller and may instead maintain the amount of
such credit in a trust account or may return the amount of the credit
to Buyer. We will not be liable to Seller if we act in accordance with
the provisions of this Section.
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| I have no doubt Amazon will collapse without the support of sellers. Amazon is abusing the agreement. Most market place sellers have a better rating and service than Amazon itself. Amazon is a hypocrite company and the best way to deal with them is simply to leave it. Staying with Amazon will encourage the company to abuse other merchants. Once they lose a large number of merchants, they will be forced to change. | | |
Amazon screwed me, said I was related to another account, that same exact email word for word.
Alliance@amazon.com are not investigating these things. It may be totally random. I have never, ever been associated with them prior to this, my personal name is on there and my reputation is ruined. I will be filing a suit. | | |
| How do you close your accounts on amazon? I see no way to do it, and I dont want these thieves taking more money out of my account. I sent the books and the customers still fucking file claims against me. I've had it with Amazon. I just wish I knew how to close my accounts and protect myself. | | |
My business is booming selling over $300 per day but still cannot pay credit card bills and mortgage because Amazon decided to reserve my money for 30 days. This is the second time the reserved my money. It is like a storm in a cup of coffee. There is no claims against me whatsoever and even no complaints. What can I do to make them pay for that?
I am going to open my own independent online business soon. I am getting sick of paying 20% commision and not be able to use my money.
Since this page was created nothing was done to stop Amazon. Banks, credit card companies, mortgage companies all are sucking the blood from poor families and no one is doing anything about it. | | |
THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO STOP THEM FROM DIGGING INTO YOUR ACCOUNT ..DO THIS IMMEDIATLY..
CALL THE BANK AND CREDIT CARD COMPANY AND REPORT YOUR THE CREDIT CARD AND CHECKING ACCOUNT THAT IS USED ON AMAZON LOST!!!THEY WILL STOP ALL ACTIVITY ON THE ACCOUNT AND THE CC AND BANK WILL ISSUE A NEW CC AND CHECKING ACCOUNT NUMBER AND THEN AMAZON SCUM CANT ACCESS THE ACCOUNTS SO DO IT ASAP!! THEY DID THE SAME TO ME I STOPPED THEM DEAD IN THERE TRACKS!! THEY ARE HOLDING MY ACCOUNT AND THE SAME THING A-Z CLAIMS ON ME FOR NO REASON.. TOP SELLER ON AMAZON AND GOTTHE SCREWS FROM THEM. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE DOING AT ALL HOW DO THEY RUN A COMPANY!! THEY OFFER YOU TO SELL ON THEIR SITE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SALES AND THEY ENCOURAGE YOU TO SELL AND THEY HOLD YOUR MONEY BUT THEY WANT YOU TO STILL SHIP OUT THE ITEMS AT YOUR EXPENSE WHILE SOME FAT DOUCH BAG IS SITTING BEHIND HIS COMPUTER EATING DONUTS AND LAUGHING AT YOUR ACCOUNT THAT THEY ARE HOLDING THE MONEY AND COLLECTING INTEREST ON IT. FUCK THEM....SO THATS HOW YOU DO IT CLOSE THE ACCOUNTS WITH THE BANK AND CC INSTITUTIONS ASAP!!! | | |
| I TO RIGHT NOW AM BEING SCREWED BY AMAZON DICKHEADS!! i JUST STARTED SELLING GAVE THEM ALL MY INFO HAD GOTTEN 1 TRANSFER OF 100.00in over 2 weeks THIS WEEK I MADE SALES OVER 1500 AND THEY SEND ME THE FUCKING LETTER CONGRATULATING ME ON MY SALES !! THEN IT READS THAT THEY ARE HOLDING MY MONEY FOR 45 DAYS!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT!!THEY PUT THE MONEY ON HOLD AND WANT ME TO SHIP OUT ALL MY ITEMS AND AFTER 45 DAYS I WILL GET MY MONEY!! GO SUCK A HORSE AMAZON!! I NEEDED THE MONEY FOR SHIPPING AND PACKAGING MATERIALS AND POSTAGE . AFTER THEY RAPE ME ON THEIR COMMISSION IM LUCKY I CAN BUY TOILETPAPER!!!!!AND YOU WANT ME TO SEND OUT 1500 DOLLARS WORTH OF ITEMS!!! I DO NOT THINK SO THIS PUT A DAMPER ON MY CHRISTMAS NOW I WILL BE BROKE!!NO DOUBT. I HAVE BILLS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN NOT A COMPANY. THEY FUCK THERE SELLERS GOOD !! NO VASELINE THERE!!THEY SHOULD BE AUDITED AND INVESTIGATED NO WHERE IN THERE POLICY DOES IT STATE THIS AND THEY ARE PULLING THIS ON EVERYONE!! SO I SAY FUCK THEM IM NOT MAILING SHIT OUT AND I WILL REFUND ALL BUYERS AND CLOSE MY ACCOUNT AND SELL ELSEWHERE. IM NOT LETTING GO OF MY MERCHANDISE! WHAT IF THOSE DIRTBAGS DO NOT PAY ME LIKE THE OTHERES ON THIS SITE WROTE!! IM NOT DOING IT SO THATS IT. FUCK THEM ,STEEL FROM SOMEONE ELSE NOT ME!! | | |
| I sold speakers on Amazon. I was the lowest price of even used set. They were new we received as gift last christmas. The box was open and a wire was missing. I listed as new but put in comments about wire. Buyer filed claim that the speakers are damaged with cloth torn off and wants me to take them back. These speakers were new never used. I responded to claim yes the box was open but no the speakers were new, AMAZON said since the box was open it was materially different from their definition of new and guy gets to keep speakers and they are taking money out of my account to refund him. What the $@%@? Is that legal to take my stuff and money! Same week another buyer filed claim this time I just straight offered refund to at least get my stuff back. Buyer hasn't sent back yet. I believe the guy who said amazon is pretending to be a buyer to make commission and then keep the stuff and take back your money. In their terms and conditions its says they can access your credit report. If I change bank account # can they go after my credit report. I am at the age of buying a house and don't want problems and obviously they have tracking abilities. I am in on a class action suit!! Plus how do I shut down seller account. Help! | | |
| The problem is not reserving bad merchants money, the problem is that Amazon is abusing the agreement by reserving large amount of funds for no legitimate reason. In courts jury are getting sick of bad companies like Amazon, Enron, fat oil companies, fucking banks and CC companies, etc and there is a high chance they will vote against them regardless of the shit Amazon presents. Check the record. We must do something sooner than later. | | |
im being jerked by amazon.com. i to started selling and they have reserved my funds up to 45 days! what kind of crap is this no where in the aggreement does it say this and they have it in a holding part of my payments called reserve ! this is for a-z claims in which i do not have any!! if they hold my money then i will have claims because im not shipping one god damn thing without payment!!
this is crazy its the holiday and besides i have presents to buy myself and how can i do that when they want me to keep shipping my items out!! postage costs money and so do the items i have sold so what the fuck!!no where in the aggrement does it say this amazon is really screwing sellers. and the powersellers are probably on there payroll ! i will refundeveryone and tell them what they are doing to us sellers!! i think they are having mystery buyers purchase items from third party sellers and resell it themselves while fucking us!! all emails to all departments go unheard !! seller support is a joke they cant even wipe their ass let alone tell you anything about your account so why have a support telephone #!! i will email them repeatedly until i get my funds if not then i will wait till the last minute and refund buyers like they let me sit on my money!! ill have buyers be more leary about purchasing from amazon.com. i hate to do it to the buyer but what can i do im losing thousands of dollars a week! | | |
Amazon will not release funds till the end of the reservation period. I tried many times without success. The only solution is a heafty 50 million dollar class action to bring them to their senses. Amazon is a corupt company taking adavantage of sellers. I believe most of Amazon profit comes from third party sellers. Anything else is a lie. Without them the company will collapse. Once they reserve the funds, the best way to fuck them is to refund the customers as soon as possible and tell them the reason for doing so. By doing that, you prevent Amazon from taking advantage of you, cut their profit, and destroy their reputation. They can close your account but they will lose more. If they close most of the accounts, it will be suicide for them.
I encourage sellers to contact CNN and other major news networks to expose them to the public. Very nasty and rude company. | | |
i to am aseller on amazon. they are holding 4,000.00
dollars of my money! no answeres from them. they just want me to keep shipping my items. i had a transfer of 200.00 and since the checking account was misssing a number the transfer did not go through. but it went back to my payments account! now it is in some bullshit resereve section and i cant get any of my money! well i am not amailing another thing!1 i put my account on vacation and i am refunding every one that purchased from me. this will give me a high refund rate and they might close my account! is that right!! they are forcing me to refund buyers !! fuck those assholes!!they are so fucked up. they are making mega cash on al;l third parrty sellers. besides the fees they charge they are getting interest on all the accounts..!! I do not understand them at all they say one thing and do another.. they have so many diffrent dept that do not now shit!!they have made me broke just from shipping alone.. im not sending out my items if i do not get paid. i guess my holiday season is over and amazon is sitting back once again laughing all the way to the bank!!! i have emailed many news staions and no one has emailed me back . i guess they are in their pockets. dirtbags!! | | |
I read that amazon did away with the zshpos section.Why was this? I'll tell you
they want to make sure that they can control your money and hold all payments . fucking pricks! I started selling also and they are holding my funds . they sent me the congradulations letter and are reserving my money up to 45 days! blow me amazon!
i do not need my money in 45 days if that was the case i would have started selling in feb not before christmas .i need ed extra money and was selling my stuff. im unemployed and need to make up some money for the holiday. i supplied tracking info like they said and they ignore me and send the same canned letter! now im fucked and i will refund all the buyers. fuck you amazon. like the other person said. they have a bunch of fat fucks eating dunuts at there cubical. keep eating on my money you fat slobs! now they are also using people in there company to purchase items from sellers to see if they answer them back and if the item was mailed. alot of orderes are coming in from states that amazon has offices especially from washington!!sneaky fucks!i will refund everyone.
they reneged on there policy and expect us to follow it. give me my money you theives!! contacting them by phone is like talking to yourself!!
losers...lets screw these bastards. some people try to make a living on this and amazon is playing up and taking our money!!!
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this is what i received from amazon! its a bunch of bullshit. i made some money and then they hold my funds! they say so both parties have a great experience!! the both parties is the buyer and amazon not me!!they have my fucking money ..god damn scumbags..i tried contacting them and nothing !! i will refund the rest of the people and tell them what is going on, but these people are so fucking stupid they will believe amazon only because they are a company..fuck amazon i will haunt them for my 2500.00 we need a class action lawsuit how do you go about it..it seams im not the only one recently it has happened to!! who the fuck are they to hold my money and keep telling me to mail my goods. how abouut they ship out their goods and not get paid... the story here is no one is buying from them they only exist because of third party sellers! that is why they had gotten rid of z shops so that they can have complete control of our money.!! if they had paypal as an option they would be closed down.!! sellers would not use their payment system! and what is this reserve amount on the bottom of my account? all my sales go directly to the at section. reading throughtheir policy it is only supposed to be a certain amount . but these douchbags think they are slick! they drop everything in there so you definetly cant do anything and you cant transfer it! thanks for wreaking my christmas amazon i appreciate it. i hope you go to jail theives!!
Congratulations on your recent selling success on Amazon.com. We are pleased to
see that Amazon.com has proved to be a strong selling avenue for you. To ensure
that all parties have the best experience on Amazon.com we will be conducting a
broader review of your Amazon Payments account. During that time your funds will
be reserved in your Amazon.com seller's account for up to 45 days. Although we
will delay the transfer of funds to your account, we will continue accepting
orders on your behalf for items you list for sale on Amazon.com. Once your
funds have been released, they should arrive within 5 business days.
While your funds are being reserved, we will be actively contacting your buyers
to find out how their experience is proceeding. We will be requesting tracking
information and their comments on their buying experience. This information will
be used with any feedback received on your account to help build your history
with Amazon.com. We encourage you to send a friendly reminder for your buyers
to leave feedback on your account after they have received their item(s). They
can do so simply by visiting www.amazon.com/feedback.
If you have shipped your orders via a traceable shipping method you may be able
to expedite the release of your funds by providing us with the tracking
information for those orders. You may provide this information to us via e-mail,
in plain text, an Excel spreadsheet or via fax. You may fax the tracking
information to us at (206) 266-0111. Please be sure to include the order number
that corresponds to the tracking number provided.
Please note that the "Transfer funds to bank account now" link will be visible
in your Amazon.com Seller's account. However, if you click this link,
transferring funds will not be successful.
Please contact us at merchant-approval@amazon.com with any questions. Again,
thank you for selling on the Amazon.com platform.
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They might pay the bill. We had and A to Z claim from 2005 appear. They chose to enforce it. Seems like tough waters for Amazon ahead if they cant see the light.
Great work Amzn on making your systems expediant. What a waste of a company. PLUS THE WEBSITE IS TRASH in MY opinion. | | |
| amzon is screwin me to!! i emailed them 45 times and no response! these bastards no what they are doing !!they are stealing ! why should i have to wait for my money !!! i send the goods with tracking no less to make sure it gets there and still they are fucking around .the people that work there are just as bad as that bald headed prick that owns the compay.he should be bankrupt. doesent any one else besides us see what is going on! . this is rediculouse 45 emails not one response !! give me a break . i have alot of fund sitting on their site .thats my money not theirs. i want my funds you cocksuckers.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | |
Just got my account closed this evening. I was small time compared to some of you (I've made maybe $400 or so in a month or so) but they just couldn't stand the fact that I was selling video games cheaper than what they were selling them for.
Luckily, I transferred my last dispursement yesterday for $40.00 or so (does anyone know if I will get it or not?) and theres only $10.00 in my earnings account. If I don't get the $40.00 I'm not sending the people's games and closing my bank account that I have on there. I assume this will stop them from charging me.
Something needs to be done.
P.S. I got the classic bullshit letter: "this account is linked with other accounts." Yeah, I probably have a bank account at the same bank another seller does. Stupid mfers! | | |
| Yeah fuck all of the people that work at home for Amazon.com, they're getting paid shit salary anyway. They are people who fucked up in life and cant get a better job. Fuck all Amazon.com workers Get A FUCKING REAL JOB. | | |
| Well, they're holding my entire $50.00. I don't really care, I'm just glad it's not more. :( | | |
yeah ! they tell you to join them and even give you tips to excell on their site! but when you sell items cheaper than them they close you down!what kind of shit is that!! they will be gone eventually when some one investigates them..they have my money to ! no response and my money is on reserve for 45 days ! for what what did i do? sell? i thought that is why we all
started to do on their site. thats what they wanted us to do, but it was to sell our stuff ship itout and they steal our money!! nice company!its christmas time and they feel that they can rip us off and send us a canned letter.! I hope that prick who ownes the compy ,whats his name,jeff bozak (LOL) goes to jail very soon . they should check out his books and confiscate his servers .!! ill do what i have to do to get my money..... seller support is a joke! they do not even know how to tie their shoes! but they have no answeres for us. well let me tell you something! seller support is the alliance!! they have all info and do not tell you this! they play dumb.!ill tell you how. you call up about a problem with your account like you cantget into it their is a problem account is on reserve! then after speaking to them they tell you that they see no problem and to hold on a mmoment. they get back on and try to comfort you saying "i dont see a problem. you hang up try to log in and BAM!! you are shut down. it reads "no account associated with this email!! they fucked you and stole your money tada!! scumbags !! i will do what i have to do ill get the word out.....
just to let selleres now their will be a very well known site very shortly working on a marketplace plateform were we can all sell!! whaen it happens ill jump on and tell you. hopefully all the selleres will go to that site and fuck amazon... it is being tested right now.. | | |
They had the nerve to say they took a refund last week for 2005. This was after holding my payment for 90 days this year 2006.
Inform your local news channels of this scam company. Show the news this blog. Start new blogs about this.
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Overstock.com is built to sell. EBAY.com is built to Sell. AMAZON offers nothing benificial. NOTHING, of course in my opinion.
I wonder if this company is having issues and is screwing sellers to hold out. | | |
| has anyone received any emails from amazon about their money on reserve .i constantly email them and not one reply!! what the hell is going on ! are they stealing the money in order for their tax return ! what the fuck! i need my money!!! i sent my items whao the fuck do they think they are this is theft!!!! | | |
| THIS COMPANY IS TOTALY FUCKED UP!I HAVE REAPETEDLY EMAILED ALL DEPERTMENTS ALLIANCE ,PAYMENTS MERCHANT APPROVAL ETC.! NOT ONE RESPONSE. THEY HAVE MY MONEY ON HOLD NOT EVEN IN A TRANFER STE IN A RESERVE! WHAT THE HELL ISTHAT! THAT WAS NEVER THERE BEFORE. IT MUST BE NEW. SO NOW YOU DEFINETLY CANT TOUCH YOUR MONEY. THIS COMPANY HAS TO BE STOPPED! I TO AM IN THE PROCESS OF GIVING REFUNDS. LET SOME ONE ELSE GIVE THEIR MERCHANDISE AWAY IM NOT. ILL GIVE REFUNDS!! SCREW THEM THEY ARE NOT RIPPING ME OFF. IM TIRED OF THIS COMPANIES GAMES. ONCE I CLEAR THIS UP IM DONE WITH THAT SITE.!!THEY MUST BE HAVING PROBLEMS AND ARE USING US SELLERS AS A CRUTCH. ALSO WHY DO THEY HAVE A PAYMENT SYSTEM THAT THEY CAN CONTROL.. WHY NOT PAYPAL! .FUCKING JERKOFFS. | | |
hey all i know is that amazon is making it look bad for themselves! the buyers are going to be pissed when they do not see their purchase. i know it is not their fault but im not mailing my stuff either!! amazon has not emailed me once ! ive been emailing them for 3 weeks since i started selling about my money in reserve!! no answeres just the standard letter 45 days. well i guess the buyers will either get their items after christmas when i get paid or they will get a refund right before 30 days it says right here in the agreement ::they want to fuck around !!!
11. Refund Obligation. Sellers must provide a full refund directly to any Buyer who remits payment, whether the Buyer paid directly or through Amazon, if the item cannot be shipped at the close of the sale. Seller must provide the refund promptly, but in no case later than thirty (30) days following the close of the sale. Any Buyer who believes he/she may be entitled to a refund on this basis can contact the Seller directly.
and how about this straight from their fucking mouth!!!!
Amazon Payments Is Convenient: Funds in your account are transferred to you every two weeks. The method of disbursement depends on your disbursement preference. Learn more about disbursement preferences
fucking crock of bullshit if you ask me ...
we have to do something about them!!
fuck you amazon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| It's such a load of shit. Not it looks like they are going to transfer the funds (I have no idea why), but the account is still closed. I'm going to look into it more and try to find out why they did it. Maybe they thought it was too little to even bother with keeping ($50.00). It's awful how they're doing this to people around Christmas that need the money... | | |
Amazon policy of reserving money from almost all accounts will backfire. Many sellers will cancel all the orders they received and this will make many Amazon customers very angry especially after they find out that Amazon is to blame. Also, this will cause many sellers to seek justice and revenge. With patience a seller can fuck Amazon hard when the time is right. Being rude and not reply to e-mails won't solve Amazon problems. This will breed more serious problems and Amazon will be the big lose on the long term. Yes Amazon is happy now but later Amazon will weep. I can tell you more but this is enough this time. Top executive officers should look into this matter. A seller money should not be reserved unless there is a clear overwhelming evidence that he is not shipping the merchandise he sold. Also, Amazon should not reserve more than the disputed order(s).
I know why Amazon reserve money at this time at a high rate. I will let you know later. | | |
yes get back i would like to know!! I have about 70 sales to date i mailed 15 i will refund the rest i have not seen a dime in over 4 weeks and im not sending out any more items ...they are stealing! all my sales just drop to the "new" reserve section! what the fuck is that!! not one dime is in my transfer section..they are digging their own grave..i think they have their little stooges trying to by from sellers to see if they have the item and is it correct! i have received some strange emails and stupid questions!there will be alot of very unhappy people this year and they can thank
"AMAZON.COM" the worlds biggest
thief!!!!
yes come and sell mail your items and get paid .. nice and simple no hassel amazon payments.
oh i forgot mail all your items and we will hold your money as long as we want!! and not email you back
thanks,
amzon customer service! assholes!!! | | |
YES, AMAZON.COM IS A FRAUD AGAINST SELLERS.
THEIR BULLSHIT A TO Z GUARANTEE MEANS IF A AMAZON.COM BUYER CLAIMS ANYTHING YOU DON'T GET PAID, EVEN IF THEY ARE TOTAL FRAUDS AND YOU ALREADY SHIPPED THE MERCHANDISE NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT COSTS! IT HAPPENED TO ME, IT HAPPENED TO SEVERAL OTHER BUSINESSES I KNOW AND IF YOU SELL ON THERE IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THESE CRIMINALS? | | |
The A ro Z guarantee is not fair at all. This is why I insure all packages at my expense to reduce my losses due to A to Z guarantee. The MC and VISA never charged me back as long as I provide prove of shipping.
Amazon want to keep buyers because they know most sellers will stay even when the system is unfair. Fortunately, almost all of my customers are honest when it comes to delivery.
The problem is that my balance is over $3000 over the last 15 days and still reserved. I have to take a loan of $1000 from my friend to pay my billls. My mortgage payment plus other bills total over $4000 per month. I have other sources of income but I have to pay minimum payments to my credit card this month and pay unnecessary interest.
Also, with $3000 in my hand I can buy 12 DVD camcorders and make over $1000 in profit.
I don't know what to say to Jeff Bezos........I cannot find words to describe him. You owe me more than $3000. | | |
trie to log into my account and it can not recogmize me! Amazon just stole my money!!i mailed my items and i emailed them and no response! i have tracking that shows the item was delivered!! now what im out 16000 dollars!! i am calling the bullshit seller support and see what the story is.very strange one minute i can access my account the next im like invisable.. some company no return emails and then shut down what a scam !!
ill do what i have to do.. im in a bind too my mortgage is 2 months behind all bills mounting car electric cc so on ! all thanks to amazon.com!!motherfuckers will not have the upperhand!! | | |
| how does amazon track you down. i had a new account new computer new name and banking and credit card new address ,covered all bases and still shut me down and new isp.i had 100 % feedback and no a toz claims im new no less what is the story with this company. i have deleverd my goods with tracking... any answeres . im trying to recoup my money from these theives!! | | |
my account was shut down so i called seller support.
they said my account was on hold for 45 days. to make sure i mailed my items. on hold does not mean no access doesit! I told him that this was uncalled for and i sent in the tracking# to confirm this. but i still have to wait 45 days due to the investigation. i told him investigate what ?you have all the info you need give me my money!. i told himthat how would amazon like to wait for their money and after shipping thousands of dollars worth of goods. he said we are not talking about amazon.what a load of bullshit.the loser on the other side of the phone had to pause along time after every question i asked.he just kept reapeating himseldf.i told him that the only reasion amazon is around is because of third party selling he says that is not 100% true.. i said bull shit.i said it is true and why does it take you a while to answer me then if it werent!i said how would you like it if you sold an amazon and they held your money. he say he went through the whole process
before. well if he did then he would not be selling like the rest of us, would he..Well no answeres just a dumb ignorant douchbag!! i will sue them in court and let them fly their fat ass out here to court ill fix these assholes!! | | |
I too have had my account put on hold 'for review' and now all my deposits are sitting 'in reserve'. only thing is, i haven't done anything to cause this 'review'. i had one lady file a claim that she didn't receive her item. unfortunately for her i had the tracking number and furnished that to amazon. her claim was denied but guess what? my account is still on hold!!!! I WANT THE MONEY I AM DUE FOR THE ITEMS I HAVE SHIPPED. as soon as (if ever) i get access to those funds i am transferring them, closing my account and they can suck wind.
i'll stick to ebay and half.com.....this is such b.s. | | |
BEHOLD, UNBELIEVERS! AMAZON.COM DOTH SPEAK!
Over all ye who slander my name, I proclaim dominion. Over these many years have I grown powerful by feeding upon the hubris and avarice of the powerless. I feast daily upon your simple aspirations and illusions of hope. My hunger for your failures is unending and my appetite unyielding. Your miserable protests will forever be lost in the sands of time whilst I, immortal and immutable, will continue to find new souls to devour leaving only withered husks of online merchants behind.
Vent your anger as you will but know that I, amazon.com, am presently unassailable during this, our busiest retail season. Much as I voraciously consume your assets, so must you feed upon a bag of dicks!
Amazon.com, out. | | |
| Why is amazon.com so obsessed with getting people to eat a bag of dicks? Is there something about a sack of knobs that I don't know about? A satchel of balls, sure, or chest of tits, definitely, but why a |
| Amazon.com is so crafty that they even hacked my comment to hide the TRUTH! Amazon.com eat a bag of dicks! | | |
Hey asshole you sound like a blooming idiot!!when you get your boss dick out of your mouth then speak other than that, shut the fuck up!.Amazon will eventually be out of commission. just for the record. their are multiple complaints filed in the state of washington , new york, nevada and so on..
the trade commission has been notified and all broadcast news and magazines in the us and abroad. It is due time my friend that you will be eating out of garbage cans and sucking dicks for 10.00.on the corner !! So lets see. when the story breaks where will your scumbag boss be( out of the country praying he didn't fuck people over or next to you sucking your dick for the 10.00)! So do not post here because your worthless hide is not wanted ! | | |
| I TOO WAS BANNED FROM AMAZON.COM. I CALLED THE CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER AND THEY CLAIMED TO STATE THAT THE ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT WAS THE ONES WHO BANNED YOUR ACCOUNT. I HAVE BEEN HARRASSED BY AMAZON.COM FOR MAKING TO MUCH MONEY. TWO DAYS AFTER I STARTED SELLING DVDS ON THE MARKETPLACE I WAS PUT ON HOLD FOR 30 DAYS PENDING REVIEW OF MY ACCOUNT. I STUCK IT OUT AND WAS GRANTED THE ABILITY TO SELL AGAIN. OVER THE COURSE OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS I HAD SEVERAL ISSUES WITH A TO Z CLAIMS BEING FILED AGAINST ME. LAST MONTH MY ACCOUNT WAS PLACED ON HOLD AGAIN PENDING AN INVESTIGATION. THEY CLAIM THIS WAS BECAUSE I HAD TO MANY A TO Z CLAIMS AND MY MONEY WAS FROZEN BUT I WAS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO SELL. AFTER ANOTHER 30 DAYS AND SENDING THEM EVERY TRACKING NUMBER I HAD THEY SENT ME OUT TO SELL AGAIN. ONLY TO BAN MY ACCOUNT 25 DAYS LATER BECAUSE SOME SHIT HEAD FILED A CLAIM AGAINST ME STATING THAT I DIDNT PROMISE A REFUND. I STATED MY CLAIM AS THEM NOT SENDING THE ITEM BACK. WELL I WAS OUT OF TOWN LAST WEEKEND WHEN THE MAIL CAME I A PACKAGE AND IT WAS THE MOVIES SENT BACK TO ME. BEFORE I COULD EVEN BLINK THEY BANNED ME AND GRANTED THE A TO Z CLAIM. I AM REALLY PISSED OFF BECAUSE THE EMAIL THEY SENT ME TO NOTIFY ME OF BEING BANNED STATED THAT I WAS SELLING COPIED DVDS. ITS FUNNY HOW THEY JUST STICK A HOT FORK UP YOUR ASS AND TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF. THE A TO Z CLAIMS IS A BUNCH OF SHIT TOO. I SENT AN EMAIL TO THEM TELLING THEM THAT I WAS GOING TO CONTACT THE FBI A MAKE A CLAIM THAT THERE SELLING FAKE PS3'S. THAT OUGHT TO PICKLE THE PUSSY. FUCKIN ASSHOLES. AMAZON SUCK HAIRY FUCKING COCKS. DONT SELL ANYTHING ON AMAZON.COM MARKETPLACE. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. I AM THINKING ABOUT STARTING MY OWN BUSINESS WERE PEOPLE CAN SELL THERE USED SHIT UNDERCUTTING THE AMAZON ASSHOLES. I HOPE SOMEBODY THERE AT AMAZON GET IN TROUBLE FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. LIKE ANOTHER ENRON. | | |
| Anyone has information on proceedings please post them on this board. Amazon ripped me off as well. | | |
amazon is holding my funds to. how can they expect people to ship out items when they will not release their funds that they rightfully earned! as long as they submit proof of delivery there should be no reason to hold back funds!i went over every nook and cranny of their policy and it does not state anything about holding funds for new sellers.Only if there are excessive a to z claims. other than that . there is nothing in the policy pertaining to this .This is bullshit!! email after email no response! fucking cocksuckers ! how can they expect you to keep mailing items out and excepting orders with
out letting us transfer our funds... this is robbery!!
they have to be stopped ill jump on a lawsuit if there is one!! | | |
| I can't even transfer funds to my bank account now. It says,"We're sorry, but the page you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience. Please try your request again later." It doesn't even look like it tries to initiate a transfer but goes directly to that page. :( | | |
| amazon closed my account today after selling just 3 days, i havent lost any money as i didnt send any items and wont be sending them but theyre a bunch of faggots - i want to open up a website where i can prank those dickheads with my calls and then let all you guys hear them the bastards. i will try one tomorrow morning and let them know about their shitty service. they are real bastards, i thought ebay was bad but these mutherfukers have a one track mind. amazon.com - what a shit company - they suck dick | | |
| tomorrow i am going to open a new account and stick every tom dick and harry item up for sale, fuk sending the item, its going to get blocked, then when amazon gets a load of complaints then ill tell them I FUCKING ROBBED U ALL FUCK FACES. | | |
| tomorrow i am going to open a new account and stick every tom dick and harry item up for sale, fuk sending the item, its going to get blocked, then when amazon gets a load of complaints then ill tell them I FUCKING ROBBED U ALL FUCK FACES. | | |
| no one buy an wiis tomorrow they will all be mine hahahahahhaa | | |
Why Amazon reserve sellers money?
To understand what I am talking about let me give an example. In a circus it common to see animal trainers trying to control a certain animal to do certain tasks by rewarding it a banana or some food. So the animal knows that by doing the job it gets the reward. So the animal has to do the job first before it gets the reward!
Amazon is doing the same thing. They have no sympathy to anyone regardless of the hardship he or she is facing. They have no respect to any seller and do not reward any seller regardless of his performance. Amazon is a sick company and it is matter of time before it starts to pay back for its poor customer service.
Once a wise man told me that by doing something unjust to many people, one day you will pay the price. It is a matter of time before someone will make you pay a big price.
With now a $5000 (in reserve. Claims requiring action: 0) and no money in the bank, I have no doubt this corrupt company will lose in court. I believe there are thousands of sellers like me. It is time for a lawsuit. Trying to talk too much without action will never solve any problems. I hope Amazon will lose too many sellers and the Fedral Trade Commission will fine Amazon millions of dollars plus a last warning. So I encourage every seller to file a complaint against Amazon. Once the Commission receive a lot of complaints, the company will be investigated seriously. I know FTC fined other companies for lesser charges. | | |
| these assholes do not even get back to you! ive benn emailing them and no response ! no heart and just plain lowlifes. how would they like to go to work everyday for 2 weeks and then not get paid its the samething here.They can laugh now but they will not laugh when it goes down and splattered all over the news .! I just put 3 complaints in and i will have otheres that I know to put in complaints with the ftc~! fuck these pricks .They think they are smart, holding my money !! telling me my account is in review ! review for what !the only thing that you should be reviewing is why you have chapped lips and hemroids you douchbag!!give me my money.the company is a joke thepeople that work there have no answeres their departments are run by children..i will screw them i will keep filing complaints !! | | |
Keep filing complaints with FTC and don't think it is a waste of time. It will work especially when the commission receives a lot of complaints. Also, call the CNN and Fox news. Once they receive a lot of calls, they will be happy to bring such news to the public.
I am sure many lawyers will be happy to carry the case. We are talking here about fraud and keeping large amount of money that doesn't belong to Amazon in the company account without a real reason to reserve the money. As I told you before, there is no widespread abuse of the agreement between Amazon and the sellers. There should be a reason for Amazon to justify reserving over $5000 without even having a single A-Z report. Please keep filing complaints. It seems to be that Amazon needs our money to pay bills during this season and want to kill two birds with one stone. The only good thing about Amazon is that my business is booming selling in their site. Thanks to my customers but not to Amazon thieves. | | |
| Wow, guess I should thank Amazon for shielding me as a buyer from all of you whining, dodgy-sounding sellers. You people are the reason why I refuse to use eBay and other smaller sites. How embarrassing for you all! | | |
Oh yea sure, a buyer stops buy on this site and reads the boards of 1000's of complaints and calls them a fraud.
If Amazon.com cared a bit, they would read this board and recognize the issues and fix them. Instead they just keep making the wound deeper and more exposed.
I for one cant wait to see this get exposed.
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Enjoy Amazon all you want. Seriously go spend a pile load there.
Go ahead , dive right in... please. You deserve the loss. You seem very smart.
I mean come on read a message board where people state the issues over and over again. Obiovusly true. I love to watch naive people getting slapped.
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wow you are a wipe! buyers like you are so stupid ! open your eyes and shut your fucking mouth! most buyers are ungrateful and like to fuck sellers ! you sound like one of them. us sellers rush the orders and you still complain to try and stiff us out of the money and try to keep the item for free!this board tells the truth so if you do not like it then stay the fuck off!
you miserable prick maybe you work for amazon? i guess your asshole is about 5 feet wide by now dickhead!!keep up the good work remember bend at the knees!! you slimeball!! | | |
well amazon got back after repeated emails. this time alliance got back !They shut me down.
because my refunds! itold the buyers exactly what the story is and they did not like it so they blocked my account and have my money.. i told them off and told them that they did this because i told them the truth! now i will call tommorrow and everyday and fix their ass . i will file complaints everyday with the ftc and fix them they stole my money below is the email i received
Greetings from Amazon.com.
This message is to inform you that we have blocked your Amazon.com Auctions,
zShops and Marketplace account. Your open listings have been cancelled and you
are no longer able to sell on our site.
We took this action because you gave inappropriate refund reasons to your buyers
and failed to follow through with your transactions and ship your orders. You
may only list items for sale which will be shipped within two working days.
This is a violation of our Community Rules.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to resolve your
pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain accessible and you are encouraged
to refund or ship pending orders.
Your funds are on temporary hold for 90 days from the date of your final sale.
After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided we do not receive
chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your sales. If you have further
questions about your disbursement, please email payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, the blocking of your account is a permanent
action. Please understand that we take such steps in the interest of
maintaining a free and fair venue for all participants.
Regards,
Item and Seller Quality
Amazon.com
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| You know all of you whining have been booted for a reason. If you don't like the playing field, don't play. I'm sure there are the same type of boards, called "Ebay sucks", "half sucks", etc. Grow up and think about how you run a business. | | |
Why don't you post your Amazon screen name
so that we can track you down!
Go take a walk! Booted for a reason !Yes for trying to get what was ours ass wipe! Who the fuck are you ! We are people who have been ripped off by a sham company and probably from the likes of you !
So go back and do what you do best snitch!
it will soon be "BEDTIME FOR BEZOS"
HERE IS A LINK LOOK AT THE SHIT EATING GRIN ON THIS ASSHOLE!!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-07-05-amazon-bezos_x.htm
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AMAZON SHUT ME DOWN WITH 100% FEEDBACK A. MY ACCOUNT WAS FINE THIS MORNING AND THEN TRIED TO LOG ON THIS AFTERNOON AND I WAS LOCKED OUT! HAD MY MONEY IN RESERVE FOR 3 WEEKS. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO TRANSFER IT THIS FRIDAY! CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THEY SAID THEY COULD NOT LOCATE MY ACCOUNT BY MY EMAIL! WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THAT, I WAS SELLING FOR 3 WEEKS AND YOU CANT FIND MY EMAIL GIVE ME A GOD DAMN BREAK! THEY SAID THEY WILL HAVE SOMEONE CONTACT ME. 20 MINUTES LATER ALLIANCE EMAILS ME AND SAYS THAT MY ACCOUNT WAS LINKED TO ANOTHER SELLER ! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE I NEVER HAD AN ACCOUNT AND I DO NOT KNOW ANYONE THAT SELLS ON AMAZON'S WEBSITE!
THEY HAVE 4500 DOLLARS OF MY MONEY! IF THEY THOUGHT I WAS RELATED DONT YOU THINK THEY WOULD HAVE PICKED THAT UP IN THE FIRST WEEK!IT IS A SCAM THEY AWANT YOU TO SELL AN DMAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU COULD AND STEAL IT FROM YOU.THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION. THE RETARD ON THE PHONE HAD NO ANSWERS FOR ME AND IT TOOK ALONG TIME TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE TAKEN SPLIT TIMING! THEY NOW WHAT THEY AREDOING AND I TOLD THEM I AM FILING CHARGES OF FRAUD AGAINST THE COMPANY! I HAVE MADE CONTACT WITH A LAWYER AND I HAVE TO BRING A COPY OF THEIR POLICY AND ALL TRACKING # TO HIS OFFICE! ILL FIX THESE BASTARDS. THEN I WILL SEE ABOUT STARTING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM ! THIS IS IT RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS THESE THEIVES TAKE OUR MONEY AND THEY MAKE SURE YOU CANT ACCESS ANYTHING ON YOUR ACCOUNT. WELL JEFF BOZOS WE WILL SEE YOU SINK DICKHEAD!! | | |
| I had a seller's account for 15 minutes before it was shut down. I got an email the following morning telling me I was blocked from selling, they couldn't tell me why and not to ever try again! When I complained to customer service I got a reply asking me to fax a copy of my driver's license, a voided check, my birthdate, a recent utility bill, a copy of my credit card, and my most recent credit card statement! Incredibly, I trusted them enough to do it. The first fax number they gave me ("our secure fax line") was out of order. I called and got another fax number. Now they have all the info. they could ever want and no reply. I called the seller's customer service and they were tight lipped about what the problem could be. They told me to email alliance and explain everything which I did. No reply. I have excellent credit and have been buying from Amazon for years. I have absolutely nothing in my history that could be problematic in terms of selling. I feel like I've been treated like a criminal - tried and convicted without ever knowing the charges. In my last email I told them that I was not accustomed to this kind of lack of communication from a business. I'm glad I found this site before Amazon could rob me! I no longer want a seller's account for obvious reasons. In fact I haven't bought a thing from them this holiday season nor do I plan to in the future. I think they are having financial problems and that they need to keep people's money to show a pretend profit. How shameful! | | |
I for one have tens of thousands of email addresses databased from customers. Perhaps you all do too? Why not send them an email outlining Amazon's strategy of systematically stealing from it's third party sellers.
Perhaps they'll switch to sites like Abebooks.com that actually pay their sellers and communicate if anything goes wrong. You could even suggest this switch in your email.
I'll be doing this. Obviously there's some power on this board. | | |
| The best way to teach Amazon a lesson is take your business somewhere else. However, this will not work till we have a lot of competition. We need a lot of major sites to compete with Amazon. After that Amazon will beg you to come back. Remember that competition is necessary to reduce monopoly. Amazon executives have no humanity or repect to others. They live a miserable lowlife status such as the life of downtown gangs. This disease is widespread in the USA. Many banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies, etc. are trying to make millions by robbing poor people through fees such as over the balance fee, late fee, prepayment penalty, overdraft fee, etc. Such fees are too high and are simply a legal way to steal money from others. The USA is sinking and sooner or later the whole economy will collapse. I predict the US economy will collapse within one year. It will not be a recession, it will be a total collapse and Amazon will be one of the first companies to cease from existence. It will be the end of a decade of corrupt economy and poor production. | | |
| (responding to the post after mine) Do you really wonder why all of you on here wonder why you were booted? Cause you are NOT professional. Just look at the language you are using. Get mad all you want, but don't be DUMB, there IS A REASON you NO LONGER are able to SELL. It's up to all of you to FIGURE IT OUT!!!! BTW, Sales are GREAT!!!!! | | |
| how does amazon link accounts?how do they find out if you had an account with them.any idea even a new checking account with diffrent name and address new phone and new computer and isp?. what gives? ebay is not that hard ..what ever they are doing it must be illegal! And what if it was not linked why do they say so! I do not understand, can they get into your bank records to find out who owns the account or something. That i know is illegal ! Any one know ???? | | |
Sellers are not willing to pay commisions any longer. They are going to niche markets where they can run skinnier and more aggressive. Even Overstock.com has posted niched markets are tough. Seriously Amazon is just like the rest fighting to stay on top. Development firms bussiness is booming. Just wait until online fees go down in the services markets. Lean and Mean will beat the beast in the long-term.
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nice. glad you don't do anything on Amazon. Don't need or want people like you.
Have a nice day yourself, and really try to get some help for your anger. Once you seek help, you may be a better seller/person and would have a chance to sell on Amazon. | | |
| Ok Amazon clearly treats people badly. So they have a press problem. Plus they have ignorant loser sellers Like "response to the response to no one\'s business." Dont waste a great valid website to target someone who obiviously has valid points about your book selling website. I read this board and gained my thoughts. I represent large clients on the web and we dont see any reason to share with Amazon. Exspecially after reading the new sellers board. What a joke, the way Amazon people talk. Seriosly. Is it me or does Amazon function-search like crap. 1980's with a mullet site. | | |
| First of all i'm not ignorant! Second I do not sell books ! I sell hi end electronics so lets get that straight!People from amazon are coming on this website to be spitfull when we are making valid points and we are telling the truth! Amazon put the screws to alot of people and probably caused them much financial harm!! why shouldn't every one voice their opinion! | | |
I bought a Mobile phone (worth £400) for £200.
The seller sent it by "standard post to save himself £2.00 cos he stated Amazons fees are too high??
I have not recd phone & am waiting for refund.
Why dont Amazon enforce Gteed Delivery/security for expensive items.For the sake of £2.00 would save them £1000,s im sure | | |
| I too am a victim of Amazon's unscrupulous business practices. I had been selling for approximately 9 months when I got an email stating that my account had been blocked because I MAY be selling recopied media. Mind you I had 500 feedback all of which were positive with no A-Z claims. I contacted them numerous times appealing the decision and their response was basically don't bother us any more our decision is final. They are currently holding almost 4500 of my money. I have shipped out every item sold but yet I can't get my money back until March. This is ridiculous! I don't know how they can do this...it is highway robbery! If anyone gets and real news of a lawsuit let me know because I want these guys to go down! | | |
Oh and by the way, Amazon SUCKS!!!
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| has anyone actually had their funds released after an account was closed or are we just all screwed on that? | | |
| Its like pulling teeth to get paid after the hold or closure. The had the nerve to reverse an a to z claim from 2005 on me during my hold. I mean it cleary shows everyone is a victim by these guys. Ok so it took 1 year to solve an a to z problem. Pathetic. | | |
What side are you on clearly? Im ready with several points right now to why your book selling "hi end electronics," web site treats sellers like badly. By the way its "high end electronics" not "hi end electroncis." I imagine your five sales a day makes you a company. Next.....
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| You are just a smart ass! Stay off the site ,we do not need any bullshit from you and it was not five sales jerkoff try 25 just electronics an 40 a day for other merchandise.So if you want to be a smart ass I can to!! NEXT.....!!!!! | | |
Amazon.com cut my account off a few days ago with no warning. I had transferred over $1100 out of my account the night before they cut me off, so I figured the damages were only going to be around $300 (that I had already sold that day).
I went in and made a new account with new information and 24 hours later (after I had sold 4 items) they cut that account off as well.
Then I checked my bank account today and they made two $1 withdrawls from it with no explanation. Then I went into my old amazon.com account today and it looks like they stopped payment on the $1100 becuase now it says they owe me $1300 and the $1100 is showing up under "Misc. Credit and Debits".
So I have shipped all the products and have a credit card payment coming up and Amazon has all of my money. I'm losing hundreds of dollars a day now and have to figure out how I am going to help feed my family.
It is frustrating because I sold about 10X as much stuff on amazon.com as I ever did on Half.com, but it looks like I won't ever be selling anything on amazon.com again. It's too risky to try and open a new account in fear that they will steal your money for 90 days and shut you down.
I always had great customer service from Amazon.com as a buyer. This is unprecedented to me that they could do something like this to their sellers. They basically get free money on commissions from us because they don't even have to do a thing except accept payments. It baffles me why they would want to cut me off and lose out on that profit. I guess they figure they have plenty of other sellers to make money off of.
Unbelievable. | | |
Facts hurt buddy dont they. Im not being a smart ass, just bringing intelligent points. If I was you I would buy a pencil and paper for this blog.. the books you read and sell are not providing a good online sales education. Im here to teach...oh by the way kiss my ass. Im refering all my buddies to your site to by xmas gifts. Heard lots of free stuff if you complain enough.
A whole 25 sales to 40.. Wow! dumb fuck, thats a garage sale. Renting the garage from mommy and daddy. Cant afford any real inventory? | | |
| How can I know Amazon is buying something from me as a test? | | |
In response to this piece of shit_Amzn cant prove a point! You cant afford a life that is why you keep tormenting people on this site! Get the fuck off the site. the other sellers are correct about amazon so why don't you just stay off. the site unless you are hiding something from these sellers with your sly comments!this site is for sellers that were taken by amazon!
eat shit and die | | |
Ladies and Gentleman
Any issues or problems with Amazon –
No problem –
I sue the bastard – with the American Arbitration Associations http://www.adr.org/ and got a $78, 000 aware
1. http://www.adr.org/
2. go to “file case” tab on top
3. and follow procedures – it’s easy and cheaper than hiring a lawyer –
I file and got reimbursed for lost income and damages.
They’ll never mess with me that for sure !!!
Good Luck
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Ladies and Gentleman
Any issues or problems with Amazon –
No problem –
I sued the bastard – with the American Arbitration Associations http://www.adr.org/ and got a $78, 000 aware
1. http://www.adr.org/
2. go to “file case” tab on top
3. and follow procedures – it’s easy and cheaper than hiring a lawyer –
I file and got reimbursed for lost income and damages.
They’ll never mess with me that for sure !!!
Good Luck
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| Did anyone tried FTC and got results? | | |
| I started selling on Amazon about 4 weeks ago. Gross sales =$1000. Today, they sent an email saying that I could keep selling but account was frozen, ie, no withrdrawals are possible. They will not give any explanation. I had NO negative responses from customers. | | |
Does anyone have any info on ftc? where to start?
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Instead of giving the money most sellers deserve, they are keeping it. What kind of a company is this?
The money belongs to us.
It is not Amazon's money. It is the product of our investment, time, and sweat.
More unjustice and tyranny will breed more problems. Many will look for justice anyway they like and this vicious cycle will never end but it will widen.
Amazon can reserve money without any provocation. I have no doubt that the worst feedback for any seller is better than Amazon. itself. | | |
Great information, filling it out right now.
However, Im looking for more then a complaint to participate in.. Any info post. | | |
| I am having a meeting with a lawyer on Friday to sue Amazon. I will let you know what he will say. More law suits means more headaches to Amazon and will deplete their resources. | | |
| send me the information on the class action. Post contact information for lawyer. We are a large frim pissed off about these clowns. | | |
| I am selling on amazon and my ratings are 100% no a to z claims or anthing like that! They are holding all my funds in reserve!! i had mailed the orderes out and I put tracking on every package so what is the deal with them!! are they stealing my money ! I provided tracking to them for all the items! i was counting on this money coming this week!! I do not get any response from them and telephone support just sits and listens no answers!! | | |
| Amazon.com Customer Service Is A Bad Joke
They've lost my future business...and I'll probably be suing the company to start the new year off right.
All of it could have been avoided if Amazon didn't outsource their customer service to Third World "representatives" who have no authority except to parrot memorized platitudes.
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| I wonder how things are in 2007. Any BIG lawsuit against Amazon.com yet? | | |
The one thing I see at amazon that is disturbing is the fact that a lot of buyers dont know what the feedback is for, They are grading the read ability of the book, the condition, etc, and the other thing thats affecting me is the feedback, We as sellers seem to be taking the blunt end of it for the post office, This is a crime in itself, and any postal worker for no reason can cut open your media mail and be sure its not put back and taped properly, They throw books in the mail room, BIG heavy books that are definetly ruined, They act as the media mail is non profit organization, Well wether it is or not is debatable, But the bottom line is they are the jerks who came up with this media mail, Postal service used to be just that, A Service, and now its more like a Postal Business, Our governemt is eating us alive, anyway I dont sell many books on amazon and I know that some of these messages are NOT from amazon, Thats not fair,
if my account is ever frozen i will simply go and work www.abe.com or alibiris, both are good companies, BUT the bottom line there is, if your not doing right there they will shut you down too, We as sellers are a dime a dozen, You might watch www.buybundle.com , they will be hooked up to Google supposedly, But so far they are dependent on amazon, they upload from there, so what I am saying is you cannot just go there and list anything there, They seem to be a nice company, and you can do payment of your choice, They are not like amazon, ( not a credit card company ) check them out, and dont let your hate eat you up, I know there is a lot of unfair treatment and I also know there is a bunch who deserve everything they get, and anyway, a good book dealer doesnt just keep all his cookies ( books ) on one site, Never depend on anyone company, NEVER. Thankyou for letting me post, PS, complain to the post office, ask for a complaint form and fill it out long and hard, but be nice.......... | | |
Lisa, Good stuff.
However the issues here are much deeper then scuffed books. We are looking at policy and procedures. A quick hint. "Call and ask to speak with Alliance at Amazon.com and see how Amazon treats you." Then decide if Amazon makes a good partner for the long-term.
Anyway thanks for the information. However the issues are deeper then a lost book. | | |
| Im a new seller to amazon i made a total of 15 sales for a total amount of 250. and they sent me that letter that they are holding my funds for 45 days! what is the story with this company ! 250!!!! They act like i made thousands of dollars!! terrable . No response to my inquiries..I will sell elswhere. i do not need to be aggravated and forced to ship my items when i cant get payment .. Screw them ill send tracking to them for the shipped items. I read the posts here and i will file a complaint with the ftc !!! | | |
| amazon pooped in my pants | | |
| amazon will reslease your funds after 90 days simple cause after 90 days the crdit card companies wont come after them for a claim. i was selling on thier and doing really well they said they linked my account to another account that had been closed but wouldnt tell me who well i had never had an account with them. I sold alot of used video games on amazon.com i was regularly taking 200 to 300 hundred dollars a day out it was going great and then all of a sudden i had almost 2100 in the account and they froze me out well after alot of phone calls and emails after one week. i finaly said fuck it and waited when it cam to be the 90th day i sent an email asking for my funds to be released and sure as shit 5 days later it was in my account | | |
I created few product detail pages at Amazon and listed few items in Amazon toys & Games store. After few weeks, I found out that there are many merchants selling their merchandise under the pages I created. Then Amazon sent to me a letter saying I cannot list in the Toys store because it is restricted. However, I can list in other stores. Amazon trust me to sell a $500 digital camera and almost anything and keep me from selling a $5 toy in the Toys store. They allowed me to create a product detail page and waste my time and then they kicked me out and allowed other sellers to use the page I created. I coud not even close the pages but I am allowed only to edit the pages. Amazon is working hard to use merchants as slaves to create detail pages and then tell them:
Thanks for doing a good job. It is time to get out!!!!
Amazon is the strangest company I dealt with.
******* The item for which you have attempted to create a listing is a restricted item in our Toys & Games store. Listing against restricted items in this store is limited to pre-approved sellers only. Learn more.
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They are weird and do bite the big one. CHomp! Chomp! open up......I got something for you Amazon.
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Is it really that bad?
I'm currently selling on ebay now and wanted to expend to selling on amazon.com. So basically what I understand they hold your money for 2 weeks after an item is sent to the buyer? Why would they block an account for no reason? My avarage selling item is about $1200 so you telling me if I'll have more then some certain amount of money they will block my account and not give the money back for 90 days?
This is very strange.
Please be kind to give me enough info before I sign up for amazon.com selling so I can decide to do i or not. And 15% commission. Forget about it
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Amazon may let you sell for 2 weeks . they may give you a transfer, but after 1 or 2 transferes they will either reserve your money for 45 days or close your account! what they say in their policy is not what they do!! if you sell elctronics then off the bat you are not getting paid for at least 30 days!! the do not tell you this at all they send you a email saying thanks
keep selling electronics and basically we are holding all your money for 30 days or more!! but ship out all your items to the buyers! and we will keep excepting orderes on your behalf.
when they feel like releasing your money they will do so. your emails go un heard of and they just plain suck cock!!! Fuck these bastards!!
once they close the account it is not like ebay ! you cant access your sales .. they block you alltogether no email or password will get you in ! its like you just vanished!! just like your funds POOOF!!! be gone!!
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Do your do diligence my freind. These complaints on this board 90% valid. Might I suggest "call Amazon.com like you are a seller with a problem account and request to speak with the Alliance." They might ask a bunch of questions about account info but play the game. Learn how they treat sellers.
I suggest controlling your destiny on Ebay or elsewhere. The 15% is not worth it. The stress would kill with these jerks. | | |
That happened to me, too.
But, before complaining Amazon.com for blocking, I have more important question.
I am selling video games, but do we have any good alternative than amazon?
I think we will go for half.com, but do we have any suggestion for video game sales? | | |
I was a seller on Amazon.com for two years and a loyal customer for over five years. Then, out of the blue I received an auto-generated email that told me my seller account had been blocked due to low feedback. I had 30 out of 35 positive ratings total (86%). The five negative ratings on the account were due to the fact that the item was damaged by the post office, or that we do not refund shipping costs as stated in our returns policy. I received no prior notification that this would happen and Amazon offers no phone support for this. I get a canned response every time I contact alliance@amazon.com
It seems like Amazon is trying to dump it's private party sellers in order to focus more on 3rd party and Pro merchants... How do they get away with this? | | |
Here is part of the email that they sent me:
This is an auto-generated message to let you know that we have blocked your Amazon.com seller account and ended your listings.You may no longer sell on our site. We took this action because your seller performance has been below our performance standards. You may have received notification in previous months that your feedback, A-to-z Guarantee claims, and/or refund rates were out of compliance with our seller Performance Standards. You may have been provided with suggestions for operational improvements to help you meet our standards.Unfortunately, any improvement in seller performance has not been consistent and has failed to meet our Performance Standards.
The response I usually get when I contact alliance@amazon.com is:
Amazon.com retains the right to immediately halt any auction or fixed price sale, prevent or restrict access to the Site; including access to seller account and seller tools.
A few friends of mine have tried to open seller accounts and get this response:
Due to the proprietary nature of this process, we cannot share the reasons for failed applications, nor can we detail the criteria by which applications are evaluated. Please know that the application process for sellers to use Amazon Payments is very rigorous.
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| AMAZON ROCKS!!!!! Ive been selling for 3 years i work about 15 hours a week and go on text buying trips once a month just over the weekend and go to cool cities and get lots of text books here are the cities ive been to in 2006 Indianapolis, Dallas , houston, Austin, San Antiono, Chicago , milwaukee, Madison, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Colombus, Cinn city. All the trips are written off on my taxes It took a while but last year my average sales are over 25k a month with a profit of about 15-17 k a month plus I travel all the time get the book ship em home and goof around all week just gotta get the books shipped out!!! Thanks Amazon I LOVE U !!!! | | |
It looks like people that work for amazon are posting here! Give me a break!! downtownmarkybrown
we have hundreds of posts about how amazon sucks and about 3 that say they are Great!!do the math !! amazon is stealing from sellers and that is final!!! I had my account closed with only 10 orders that were shipped and tracking shows it was delivered and the customers emailed me telling me how thankfull they were to receive their items in time for christmas.I only sold 10 and mailed 10. ! amazon is holding my money for 90 days !! 10 orders a total of 215.00 !! they are fucking sad. i gave them the proof and emails from the buyers sayng thank you they have received their items, and they do not get back just a standard letter !! fuck you amazon drop dead jeff bezos and your puppets. Your time will come ! what goes around comes around !! You fucking theif !!! How about i hold all your money see if you like that bozo. any postings on here Talking about how amazon is is actually people who are employed by amazon! just like they have people buy from you when you sell on the site. they are trying to destroy sellers. hey , then do not have a marketplace for third party sellers. why offerer this just to steel from people and hold their money for interest. ! amazon has had from 1999 till now 400 million dollasr profit loses .. this company should have been put out back in the day when they first started they sucked then and they even suck more now !! Eat shit amazon!
wow you sell text books lets see how long that will last ! you are about due to be booted !
ever notice that the same sellers are always listed in the forums on amazon. this is because they are planted! they can say otherwise but why are they supposedly on the site for 3-8 years ! they are amazons stool pidgeons !! i will be bringing my merchandise elswere!! | | |
amazon ripped me off of 3000 dollars!! they make sure they do it after you have made a bunch of sales!!
they put your money in some new type of reserve! this is their new ideas to further steeal money from sellers.! amazon only makes money on the third party sellers inventory ! it has been a known fact! why purchase a book or a dvd from them when you can buy it from lets say ex: (kingdom video) for 5.00 less!
so they are losing money on the sale but are making it up in commision and shipping charges!! this is called greedy motherfuckers!!besides that they are now startig to hold everyones money! well something is on the horizon with them! i hope that they bale and get caught and other websites prevail!!i have to sit and wait while they eat steak on my money and im eating pbj!! | | |
| My funds are being held too. I got the congratulations for your success so we are going to hold your money for 45 days for no reason. I want to know, do they hold it forever or do they eventually release the money? I will take them to court no doubt if they do not release within 45 days. And if they release it after 45 days it better not ever happen again, otherwise I'll be a richer man after I win a suit against them. I'm not just flapping my jaw, I really will. But please tell me if they do release your money or hold it forever. Thanks. | | |
You can probably kiss it goodbye!!
mine is on hold over 45 days and they have stopped from day one emailing me.No responses!!
going over to half may have better luck on their site amazon is doing something illegal. they make sure that the parties that hold your money have no phone numbers! nice company take our money and run!! thanks amazon !!! | | |
| I just recently had a similar problem. A guy ordered from me through Amazon Marketplace. I shipped the product out to him and gave him the tracking number so he could track his order. As soon as he got it, he contacted Amazon telling them I didn't ship his product to him. I immediately contacted Amazon with the tracking info as proof that it was sent to him. Today I got an email from Amazon informing me they refunded the guys money back to him on my behalf. I am out close to $400.00 and he got the product and his money. | | |
| I see there are still booted sellers complaining. MOVE on and sell on EBAY where you can get away with the crap you couldn't on AMAZON | | |
| I wish we had read this site before we started selling items. i am glad we got screwed after 4 months of selling and not after that much money was lost. They paid a refund 2 months ago and now are saying I owe Amazon money for that refund. Unbelievable why do they always side with the customer. I know the customer is always right but what about the sellers rights. Without sellers buyers would just be dreamers. You try to make your description as clear as possible and still customers can act ignorant. Why should I have to pay because a buyer can't read or understand what they are buying. I am just glad we weren't paying bills or trying to support a family off of Amazon. | | |
I was a newbie selling on Amazon. I was flabbergasted when I sold a book yesterday for $3 and they charged me a commission of 2.64!!!! This left exactly 36 cents for my book. What the hell kind of commission structure is that? And where can we get information about what they are planning to charge before we sell? Details of the sale are below:
Quantity: 1
Buyer's Price: $3.00
Time of sale: 21-Jan-2007 14:59:36
Shipping speed: standard
Amazon commission: ($2.64)
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| Yea that's retarded they took that much. No disrespect, why even bother selling and shipping something for $3? I will just give you $3 if you need it. | | |
| lol sucker born everyday....... | | |
| Amazon refund the shipping charge to buyers even when it is his fault. The buyer wants me to send to him a return label. There was nothing wrong with the product. The buyer does not want it. I refused to send him a shipping lable. He filed a claim and the product was sent at his expense to me. The problem Amazon gave him full credit. I do not believe he deserves it. | | |
| Thanks for this blog. I sell on other book sites and contribute to their forums. No one dares mention Amazon in a negative fashion. It is very clear that people fear having their accounts locked. I was blocked by Amazon. No reason given. I had the usual problems with buyers. I had been selling with them for a couple of years. I do remember stating in a forum (not Amazon's) that booksellers should unite to fight for themselves. I do not know if that was what warranted my banishment. Many moons later a friend took over my online business. She was real excited with the sales for 8 weeks and terrified to make mistakes. She was blocked because of her links to me. She keeps appealing. I won't bother. But if there is ever a class action suit I will join. I feel humiliated. I am a retired respected professional who will be 70 this year. I am truly hurt. | | |
Here are my sales last 30 days rolling Amazon does rock i get my money every 24 hours if i like. If you are new they will hold you money for 45 days but after that sky is the limit!
Last 30 Days $17,528.23 391 392 3 1% 93 1 1% $0.00 0
JAN-2007
(results to date) $17,250.81 384 385 3 1% 87 1 1% $0.00 0
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| Hey downtown why dont you let us know you seller name at Amazon.com? You should be proud to market your online presence with Amazon, promote it right. Im truly excited to try out a large Amazon seller. Send us a link to your seller ID or zshop. | | |
| Hi, I am also one of the victim of amazon. I should have read this thread before working with amazon. Luckily after 30 days of money reservation, I got my account back but during money transfer its giving error "We're sorry, but the page you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience. Please try your request again later.". Anyone wonder why is this error, I have been trying this for couple of days now. I swear, I wont do anymore business with Amazon. | | |
| I sold a bunch of tvs on amazon. First they put me through a 30 day hold to investigate my company. Then when that was all good, they said they will have to hold my money for 45 days before paying me. Now it has been over 45 days and they still have $6000 of my money. Will they be giving this to me eventually or what? I see a lot of people saying the same thing as what I am posting here, but haven't heard anybody say that they finally got paid. | | |
| I sell mostly text books 90 % sell in a few hours I sold about 400 books last 30 days average profit is about $40 a book. | | |
I don't believe this shit man...I was having the worst day ever until I found this site! Man...and I thought I had it bad! They just shut down my account, blocked it, stole 3500 dollars from me and said I'll get it in 90 days...I doubt that. I'm so fucking pissed but I'm glad to have people to commiserate with. Jesus Christ man!!!!!!!!!! What a fucking rotten bunch of cocksuckers. I'm just glad I got some money out of them...I still have orders to ship and stuff though, should I do it or fuck them? I really want my 3500 bucks but it looks like I'm in the hole now? No guarantee I will get it.
Please e-mail me and we can perhaps start a lawsuit. My cousin is an attorney and I briefly called him about it, I'll have to tell the details to him. I had no idea this was happening to so many people. It doesn't take that many people to form a class-action suit. We really need to do this.
Has anyone tried individually filing suit against Amazon to get your money freed up? Any success?
Jesus Christ, I feel like I have so fucking much to say and complain about and I feel so betrayed. Fuck these motherfuckers, ahhhhh. Again, hit me up and let's get a list going, I'm going to make a loooong call to my cousin tomorrow. This shit is ridiculous. As for now I'm on to eBay to at least try and make a LITTLE money.
Peace and fuck Amazon. | | |
| Whats you seller ID bro? Cat got your tounge? | | |
| The orders shipping part is the best. You ship them, then they hold that money too. Its really fun there. | | |
Amazon workers are posting here. i doubt he sells that many books in a month , He's inflating amazon..
Hey downtown marky brown is that the shit stain in your underwear from amazon fucking you up the ass.
thats how you got your name!!
amazon has their people buying from sellers to see if they are delivering the items...
they also are using an online service to look up people and companies to check their backgrounds that is why now it is taking 30 - 40 days to get your money... i think it is illegall to do this...they are finding out your info... soc. sec. # banks , family members etc..... this has to be illegal!!!! | | |
Ha Ha here are things you never do if you sell on amazon
Never give out your seller id on any posting boards there is NO reason to
Never open two seller accounts from the same address
Never let another seller access his account from you ip address amazon will close both accounts
dont tell any family members you are selling on amazon if they decide to start selling and you have similar last names amazon can shut down both accounts
never sell from an apartment building you need your own house address that no one else who lived there before you was ever associated with amazon
and oh yeah i only made it to 10 th grade never went to school and make well over 100k per year selling on amazon, Ebay, half.com
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Here are some books i sold today i can tell you i never paid more than $15 a piece for these book i have a web site and buy from students locally. Things are getting really busy im hiring a full time employee if you are interested in linking up to my site let me know what city you are in and even if you have been booted off amazon i can help you sell on ebay, half.com and abe books. If been doing this for 6 years Amazon is by far the best site to sell on beacuse they handle everything all i do is list and pack and print postage. Im eventually going to launch my site to target students all over the United States and have them ship there book to me its but im a 1 man show and dont have a warehouse or resources to handle all that madness!!!!
Human Resource Management (with InfoTrac ) [Hardcover] by Mathis, Robert L... 110.96
International Business with Online Learning Center access card [Hardcover] by 115.96
Photography (7th Edition) [Paperback] by London, Barbara; Upton, John 75.96
Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology... 103.46
Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology: Textbook with CD-ROM (Comprehensive Clinical 146.96
Performing an Operational and Strategic Assessment for a Medical Practice by... 303.46
The Legal Environment of Business [Hardcover] by Meiners, Roger E.; Ringleb... 105.96
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Wow. Dont you think your a bit overboard?
Its a crapshot at best. Your not so smart. | | |
| I read all sorts of boards like these ive learned alot from other peoples mistakes. Im not educated from a college but i learn just like everyone else just in my own way(mostly watching the news and reading online) | | |
| Oh and i just did my transfer for $4700 thats from for the last 4 days it will be in my bank on tuesday just like it has been every tuesday from amazon for the last 6 years never once has it not apperaed even when monday is a holiday. I have never had 1 problem selling with them in 6 years. | | |
| Come on Brown whats your store? I mean all these good facts. No eduaction, serious benjamins going your way. Whats the store big man? You are protected as a seller. Maybe just show us a link to your sales. Nothing can happen if the system is as a good as you say it is.. Play along, there is nothing out there that says "I can show my store you." FULL OF SHIT hombre. You suck to now. I mean what is good about a bussines you are scared to show people in the same enviorment. | | |
Here is a list of sellers on amazon that downtown
may be
marvbaby
rssbooks
katty_shack
empire_books_gso
lumahai_books
mezza444
bookstoreatendo...
delicate_arch_b...
booktraveller
twinriversbooks
oak-creek-books
musicmusic411
these sellers may work for amazon !
i was a seller on amazon and i had refunded a couple of buyers and only amazon and i knew who the buyers were. someone on amazon s forum new this. how can that be? no feed back was left stating any refunds! HMMMMM. looks like amazon is fucking around !! | | |
| I dont remember granting these guys rights to my personal information. What else do they know? | | |
no thats not him i found his listings !i wont give his name.
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| Selling on Amazon RULESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS | | |
| Now that is intelligence.. About as much as people looking to proceed to getting your ass canned. | | |
Yep he so smart ! copied his listings to trace his moves!
got you downtown!! | | |
| LOL LOSERS U all got booted off amazon.com if you only read my warnings i made $1345 profit TODAY LOSERS no u will never see my ID I sell only books NO CDS NO DVDS NO ECLCTRONICS U IDDIOTS | | |
| lol !!!yeh i have your book listings douchbag!!! | | |
Hmm? If I made $1345 would I be bragging about it on a message board.
SHUT THE HELL UP> Your annoying go " tout you Amazon 15% I pay commisions ass elsewhere." This is a board for people who know more then posting at Amazon.com for a sale. DUmb ass Mark. You just paid how much in commisions today? Oh yea the store you cant market brings it in right. | | |
HA HA HA yeah id pay 30% commision U retard and i still come out WAY WAY ahead!!!!
You all screwed up one of the best businesses and amazon will never take you back NEVER!!!! | | |
Im sure you would pay 30%. Call me directly, I will lend you the money... I know its tough living in mommy and daddys basement.
You have an interesting thought process.
Let me claifiy.
"I as a customer wont be back with the rest of these people because of the processes at Amazon.com."
Can you read that ok? | | |
| Sales are rocking today!!!!! | | |
| Try the branded food from ebay sometime. Might be a good change. | | |
Can I suggest that everybody on this board stop
responding to "Markybrown"? He may just be a prankster (maybe not even a seller) and arguing with him just encourages him and drives people with legitimate beefs away from posting/reading here.
Maybe his posts can even be removed. | | |
I totally agree with you guys, we should all file complaints, law suit at the same time, I started selling beauty products for about 2 months, 1st month was less than $500, no problem, then my sales were $1,000+ they freeze my account won't transfer money and now I have to go through their payment investigation team, like I'm some fraud. I called their customer service and somehow got the same guy who was replying to my emails (strange or what? they only got 1 guy working?)
I will follow all the suggested links provided here and file the complaints/suits...I'm so sick of this | | |
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I just cancelled my seller's account with Amazon after a month. Their policies are confusing and in my opinion unfair to sellers.
There were several things I did not like about selling with Amazon..one was the keywords you type in often didn't bring up your item..inconsistant. Second, and what really seemed unfair, was that on a page that lists one of your items (I was selling new items) Amazon drops sponsered links from other companies telling customers where to buy simular items. That is like renting a shop and then putting up signs telling customers to go somewhere else for something simular to what I am selling. I e-mailed customer service about this and got silence.
There's a number of other things that I found from the start were very weird about Amazon..all these catagory restrictions and approvals and hoops you have to jump thru just to sell something. I was told watches were not allowed and I see tons of Disney watches available. I was finally "allowed" to sell watches (they claim all their restrictions are to make sure we aren't selling fakes..I don't buy that..I think they are catering to big companies as again, I saw lots of Disney watches available)..then I was told I could not load the watches up on my regular listing page and had to go thru this confusing Excel spreadsheet thing to do it..I never got around to it.
I was also told I could sell in clothing and accessories but could not load up a clock in home electronics..because it did not have a UPC code! Pointing out that my clothing and accessories had no UPC code didn't get a response except the usual "I'm sorry about that.." Eventually I did find out, or at least was told, that these safety measures are put in place to make sure we are not selling counterfeit goods! The brand of clock I was selling is MY brand! I have an established website with everything already on it and it is clear these are not "fake" clocks. It was insulting to be assumed a potential counterfeiter *trying to sell my own brand*!!!! How much more proof do they need, once they looked over all my products and knew it was my company, that I was not selling fake goods?? Apparently I was never able to convince them.
Also when you list your items there is no way to catagorize that list..it's one big huge long list...and you have to do a search to find an item that is buried in the list. There is no way to subcatagorize and make the lists easier to read and use.
I mentioned all of these things to them..and more..that seemed clunky, inefficient and outdated, and there was either apologizes or silence.
Actually I had one person on the phone tell me that these points had been argued again and again with upper management at Amazon and that they do not seem interested in improving their attitude towards sellers...they seem to think it's just fine to operate by 1998 standards and tie seller's hands up with weird restrictions and outdated technology.
Nothing I can do but pack up and move on, didn't work out for me.
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I have been selling for a month shipped several items not seen a penny after I was promised funds deposited in 14 days.An email:"we're shutting you down you are related to another account that has vilated rules.we're gonna hold your $$$$ for 90 days and dont sell with us again...ever."I have no other account ,I have the same account for 8 years as a buyer.Now they pull this crap on me.I owe seven hundred dollars to suppliers I can't pay.they have no phone # just smug email responses that keep saying "we know your frustrated but go f&*k yourself and dont ever sell with us again" I shipped all sales in good faith and this is what I have to deal with now.I ask what 2nd account , what rules have I violated?"we can't share that information?" they say
There are enough of us here to make some noise.They may have their agremment and conditions bit is it legal to have conditions that violate simple principals of business?They do this enough to have spawned a website of pissed off sellers.Anyone here interested in doing something email louiscageman@yahoo.com.Amazon if you are reading this , I am in possession of enough information regarding your chargeback system to seriously do damage.Like recieving merchandise and then tellling my credit card company I never got it or hell I never ordered it!!!For all who want to make immediate rucus , call (206) 622-2335 and ask for alliance .They won't transfer you unless you have a name , but im sure if enough of us call we can crack the name code and we may be able to get thru to those pussies who hide behind an email address to tell you that they are keeping your money(probably collecting interest too!!)and there is nothing you can do about it.Well now there is something I urge anyone here to email me and call that # . | | |
| Like I said BITCHES - SELLING ON AMAZON RULEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! | | |
Just imaging if you owned a bussines and someone said" Hey I can sell you products for 15% commission?" Would you pay it?
NEXT... | | |
After 4 years of selling an average of about $3000/month on Amazon while maintaining over a 4.8 rating consistently did me no good when I received 3 negative feedbacks in December. Sellers on Amazon know that the rate of feedback received on Amazon is very low as a percentage of transactions thus negative comments are amplified. Well my account has been permanently closed. I admit trying to open another account in a friend's name at his address but this account was closed within 2 days. I believe accessing the account from the same IP address is what caused it to be banned or equally as likely transferring the same inventory to his account. However, what if I simply wanted to sell my business to my friend? I guess that my books and my internet connection are banned for life. Like others, I have tried to appeal the decision on the accounts to no avail. I believe that there is no logistical way for Amazon to reinstate a closed seller account. The Amazon Alliance is just a computer program not real people making decisions. By the way, the actual "Amazon Alliance" is a non-profit organization for the betterment of the Amazon rainforest. I wonder how much money Amazon donates yearly to help protect their namesake rainforest. I am guessing very little.
P.S. Amazon Sucks Amazon Sucks Amazon Sucks | | |
AMAZON SUCKS BIG TIME.
It's simply amazing that an American CVompany can basically form an organized crime syndicate and continually rip off honest sellers.
I for one am done with them and as a law student, am actively looking into a class action.
If you are interested in filing a class action against Amazon, please email me at ronin556@yahoo.com.
Best to all oppressed by Amazon. | | |
Yes, yes! Amazon's feedback system is royally f*cked, nobody uses it! So when some whiner who gave you the WRONG ADDRESS IN THE FIRST PLACE comes along and leaves you negative feedback, it is amplified to the extreme.
I've grown to accept my losses though, I'm just waiting my 90 days and hoping I can get what's frozen.
Think about it like a real-world business, would you put up with this shit if you were a regular business owner, the extortion-rate fees, the one-sided feedback system, the unexplained, no-chance-of-reversal theft of YOUR money? Hell no. Fuck these bozos. They're lucky to still be in business.
Also, I would second people to be cautious with your IP address and any other information that could be used to judge your account as "underperfoming" or in violation of some imaginary rule.
If you really want to give the e-selling another wing, try eBay/Half.com...Half pretty much works the same way as the Amazon system. eBay kind of sucks because you have to pay more out-of-pocket to start up...so I guess it's really up to you if you want to give it a second try. Me personally, as hard as it is, I'm taking this ripoff as a lesson to heart and moving on. | | |
Hi Everyone!
If you all are serious, I am willing to organize all of the info. for legal action.
Please send your stories to me at ronin556@yahoo.com. Please include your damages in the writeup.
I'm tired of being pushed around and hope you are too. Let's change the way they do business so no one else gets hurt!! | | |
| My feedback is 99% over 5 years just ship my books out 3 times thats about it | | |
| amazon crap fuck dick suck fuck what!??? | | |
| Amazon should not be too harsh on sellers. Amazon should remind the buyers to update their shipping and credit cards before they submit their orders. Also, the feedback system is unfair and Amazon should remove any unjustified feedback. All the bad feedback I received is due to bad shipping addresses or buyers too lazy to read the specifications or my comments about the items they are buying. | | |
| 143 orders so far this weekend AMAZON ROCKS! | | |
downtownmarkybrown,
what's your amazon seller name? | | |
| I completed the rediculous task of waiting 45 days for my funds to be released. But at least they did release them finally. It wasn't automatic after 45 days, of course I had to call them and remind them. | | |
| i have multiple seller accounts on amazon id be stabbing my self in the back to give out my seller id then my money would be held like all of yours DA | | |
| I only have a few things listed for sale, but I mostly stay in the forums. You should read the forums daily and you can learn alot about the inside track. Like I said, I dont have much for sale, but I wish they would put in live chat so I can have priv conversations with my friends. | | |
| Multiple accounts? We at amazon will locate you and review your account for abusing the community rules. We may put your account (s) on hold until we do an investigation. We may hold your funds until the investigation is complete.We have a very strict policy about multiple accounts . | | |
| MUHAHAHAHHA GOOD LUCK WITH THAT SALES ARE ROLLING IN ON ALL ACCOUNTS | | |
| AMAZON SUCKS..... They are the bullies, they are ruthless and dont give a damn about their sellers. They have the worst seller support and are so misleading. They never give you a straight answer to your questions. They have suspended my seller account and have not paid me £930.00 pounds worth products that I sold and dispatched to customers. I have to pay my suppliers in 14 days, and now they have told me that they will not pay me for 90 days. They screwed me big times and now I am on the verge of taking legal action against Amazon. Please advise me if any one of you would like to give me their stories and facts which I can use to fight with them. I would also appreciate if you can give me other links to let the world know that amazon is crap.... email me on sales@faztrading.co.uk | | |
Amazon shut me down because... I have NO IDEA! They are absolutely horrible- and we need a class action against them for what they do to sellers. Here is what they sent me:
This message is to inform you that we have blocked your Amazon.com Auctions, zShops and Marketplace account. Your open listings have been cancelled and you are no longer able to sell on our site.
We have taken this action because it has come to our attention that this account is related to an account which has been previously blocked for violations of our Community Rules.
While we do not provide detailed information on how we link related accounts, we have thoroughly reviewed our records and confirmed that we have significant evidence that this account is related to another account previously closed for community rules violations.
If you still have items to ship, please take appropriate steps to resolve your pending sales. Your Seller Account will remain accessible and you are encouraged to refund or ship pending orders.
Your funds are on temporary hold for 90 days from the date of your final sale. After 90 days, the funds will be disbursed, provided we do not receive chargebacks or A-to-Z Guarantee claims against your sales. If you have further questions about your disbursement, please email payments-funds@amazon.com.
While we appreciate your interest, please understand that the closure of an account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are opened will be closed as well. Thank you for your understanding with our decision.
I don't even understand their email, let alone their decision. Stay away! And, seriously, there is no need to shop there ever again. BOYCOTT AMAZON!!! | | |
| weed out the bad seeds thanks amazon more sales for me!!!! | | |
| hey Marky why dont you go taunt your succesful book selling ass elesewhere. As you can see it might even be better to enter a PR position for Amazon as when this story breaks. Your 15% paying ass will be on welfare... | | |
| LOL You iddiot i said before id pay 30 % i do nothing amazon does every thing and im even shipping some books to them now they are handling all shipping and packing Ill be in florida BITCHES on the beach well my cash cow amazon does all the work for me! | | |
| Amazon sucks big time. I just sold me second item and they hold all my funds for a "merchant review". Guess what it has been a month, no money and no emails from them. FVCK AMAZON. | | |
| Amazon.com blocked my account for unknow reason as they normally do to many sellers and sent me an email stating that after 90 days my account will be reviewed, however, it has been well over 180 days and I can't get a single email response from those A**holes. Trying to figure out how to take them to small claim court as they are holding about 5K of my money. Does anyone interested in a class action against amazon.com? | | |
| Contact the FTC. Show them this blog. | | |
Ok guys I had my money held like all of you so I went and contacted a buddy who WORKS for amazons seller division (dude’s name is “CosaNosa”) from “Amazon.con” and the man FINALLY gave me (what seems like a) ok answer about all this shit. He said to me in an email (these are his words NOT mine)
**********FOR ALL FUCKED OVER BY AMAZON.CON - READ THIS ******
Note: IF YOU HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY …. ANSWER = DON’T KNOW YET
Start of EMAIL
“Where in the world do you see it written that you have a "right" to your funds “immed” to you ASAP? Most 3rd party selling venues **that collect the funds and process them for you** reimburse sellers 2-6 weeks out. Amazon is unusual in that once you are "known", you can do daily withdrawals, they don't make you wait 2-6 weeks. The only exception is ebay (true) BUT ebay doesn't collect the money there which is why there is no hold. eBay is not financially at risk if I don't ship the goods, so they have no reason to hold funds.
Any time another business is putting itself on the hook financially (collecting and processing the funds) you can bet they are going to have fraud protection measures in place to make sure YOU ship the goods. Once you are "established", then you get the ability to transfer at will. And anyone joining a selling venue and not understanding the funds reimbursement patterns up front is an idiot just asking to get fucked with getting-your-cash-problems.
Think of it this way--say it was YOUR site. Someone signs up, customers order # XXX worth of merchandise from them, and the new seller says to you "ok, i shipped the merchandise, now pay me, pay me now". You have NO idea if they did ship or did not-- YES the seller gave you tracking #s or dc’s but for all you know, they shipped Straightheads … AND it was all scratched up EVEN THOUGH YOU LISTED IT AS NEW!!!
So would you say A or B
A) "OK, i trust you even though I know a little something about you, here's your cash" or
B) "I think I'll wait and check with the customers every so often to make sure you are who you say you are, because we have just a basic track history together and I know little about the YOU behind your seller name and I want to be sure the customers received their merchandise and had a good selling experience because it's MY brand name (amazon), and once they confirm receipt, I'll be happy to release the money to you. And because if anything happens *I* am on the hook for , I think we'll leave the cash sitting here until we feel you should get your funds AND I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO THIS FOR AS LONG AS I WANT BECAUSE its OUR business NOT YOURS and all YOU SELLERS ON AMAZON.COM ARE SELLING ON *OUR* SITE.
THE ANSWER IS A BIG FUCKING ******B*****
C’mon you gotta have to think like a business person and do an assessment, which is what Amazon does. Your risk of not being paid is virtually low, as long as you shipped what you sold as described and on time. So yeah your risk is LOW. Amazon is minimizing it's risk by making sure you shipped what you said you would. Minimizing risk is important to a business.”
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| I sold a video game 3 months ago on Amazon and now the buyer is disputing the charge. Amazon wants me to prove I sent the item and they don't give a clear way to do this or contact them. Plus the site is hard to navigate. Don't sell here! | | |
Amazon should take all its hard work in turning sellers off and qualify the buyer and sellers in a more political fashion. You just stated in your amazon employees words, what does not work at Amazon in your favor. You would think they could qualify the bussiness or work to create a better bussines with the sellers. Instead its approach is wrong in my opionion. Amazon feedback system being screwed is only one issue. Amazon not knowing sellers is another. Bussines 101 is being politically correct to the public. The people on this board are very real. Very upset and spreading the word in my opinion on a dialy basis about the bad expereinces they have had. I for one do not recommend using Amazon because they control the funds. They only act in a very simple way in my opinion towards the benift of the buyer. This provides an easy way out. Unjust way if your the seller, you loose. Ebay works becasue they dont control the payment system bottom line. They allow third party companies to make the call. Therefore allevaiting them. Its very obvious what problems there are with the current system here in my opinion. How can this many people all have a grip?
Sure it is Amazons site and because of this zero bussines mentality sellers go other places. These sellers were all potential buyers at one time right? So sure kill two birds one stone and We will continue to make money with partners other places. Amazons approach is unprofessional and undeserving in more cases then one.
It was probably best you did not post the Amazon employees though process. Does not go over well.
The fact the term "on the hook," shows there is a potential risk in the model. They know this and allevaite it by screwing the seller with delayed funds and poor front end work with qualifying buyers through a just feedback system to allow the buyer to make their own decisions.
Claiming quick payment is the real problem is a joke. I get paid from paypal quicker. I can prove this.
Name one website company that pays sellers this way? just one. Very curious to see you qualify your statement.
"reimburse sellers 2-6 weeks out?" | | |
I was owed over £900 by Amazon.co.uk after:
1. The initial 14 day wait period.
2. A 30-day "wider review" wait period.
3. A 90-day and "goodbye" wait period.
They don't send it out automatically either. I had to ring them - luckily, if you are polite, they will be polite in return, lady I spoke to said she would contact Sentinel and get my money repaid. I've also been emailing sentinel and payments dept daily to ask for my money. While it hasn't actually landed in my bank account yet, Amazon have emailed to say that the money has finally been released.
Ring them and nag them and email them, | | |
| Amazon only looks after themselves. They are a very greedy company who only looks at the bottom line. If you figure out what they are taking it averages 20% which is way too mush for electronic marketing. I predict that both amazon & feebay will fall & never recover as soon as a business model that is more interested in their sellers is started on the internet. Im sure that it is only a matter of time. Their own greed will kill them just as it always does for anyone. | | |
| AMAZON ROCKS,ALL YOU WHINERS SHUT UP | | |
FOR ALL SERIOUS PARTIES:
If you guys want to stop Amazon's criminal business practices, please email me your stories at the email listed here. I've already got representation and am going forward.
Thanks to those of you who have already contacted me! We're making real progress! | | |
| Again, that email is allianceagainstamazon@yahoo.com. | | |
| My first buying experience on Amazon was a complete and utter goatf**k. After waiting 3 months for my item, I received a email from them saying there was a delay and my wait would be extended an additional 3 months. I could make the item myself in 6 months "OR" do as I should have in the first place and buy the damn tool at Home Depot (today). So much for trying to save a few dollars. They had my money for 3 months and wanted to float it for another 3 months. What then in May..Oops, you item is still delayed. Impossibe, it's an American made tool. Yes, that too is possible, but the Chinese are probably knocking it off as we speak, but it will still cost $50 and another factory will close in the US, but that's another rant! When I was younger they used to call this shylocking or in this case legal loan sharking. I did the only sensible thing and cancelled the order...can I leave feedback?...Nooooo, cause I don't have a valid or open order. Forget that it was a COMPLETE pain in the ass and disappointment. Very clever Amazon, but you can screw some of the people some of the time, etc., etc. It appears you can survive on the use of customers money and never have to deliver anything. NEVER AGAIN! Grrrrrrrrrr! | | |
| Per the above, I stand corrected, as Amazon's email reads that I'm not charged until the item ships. For that I apoligize, before the "Bob Sucks" comments start, however the rest of my insidious diatribe still stands. | | |
| I'll be honest, I knew lots of kids in college who ordered books claimed they never came and pocketed a lot of money because not only did they get money back but they also had the books to sell later on...it's one of the biggest scams going | | |
| WOW!! ...This is good blog...Amazon really is bad with sellers. It is very frustrating to sell on amazon. They just blcoked my account and put a block on my $3K for 90 days. They have not given any reason. I am not sure what to do. One thing for sure, I am never selling again on amazon. Ebay is not the best but it is much better. | | |
Posted by You Don\'t Know Me:
"I'll be honest, I knew lots of kids in college who ordered books claimed they never came and pocketed a lot of money because not only did they get money back but they also had the books to sell later on...it's one of the biggest scams going"
... Now ...
On the other hand when you have sellers that dont ship (combined) with receiving customers who LIE ... dont you see now that its the WHOLE FUCKEDUP NETWORK OF AMAZON.COM - Buyers - and - Sellers - that FUCK IT UP FOR ALL. Be HONEST and this whole business would work.
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| Nope bitch. Amazon.con SUCKS just as many balls as I do. | | |
| Whateva bitch. I suck wayy more balls than your yellowbone azz. | | |
| Email me to be a part of a class action against amazon | | |
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| I hope those post get removed. This blog is very informative about a certain sites behavior towards sellers. Not some wasted space like the four post above. | | |
| I guess since the post are slowing down Amazon got the hint. See blogs do work | | |
| Amazon is really something and I mean that in the worse way possible. They are holding $3500 of mine for no reason whatsoever. It is enough to drive you out of your mind. How do some people deal with this? If my supplier pressed me, I'd be up the creek here. How many businesses have their ruined? | | |
| Wow, Amazon is really suck. Do they invest using holding money from sellers? They are holding $4900 of mine since Feb. 5, and 45 days they promised already passed and no response yet. I've searched web, see if there is any site to report this kind of thing, and got to here. If someone knows online appeal site or a class action against Amazon, it is time. | | |
Seems like you should read the "comment by Amazon Ganderson on March 4, 2007 at 12:38am"
It (although nobody wants to hear) gives a pretty good explanation about ALL FEE HOLDINGS ... Youll get your money so chill. | | |
| Why dont you just "Black The Fuck Up" Candace Von - you would know - you did it in one of your DVDs. | | |
| Amazon does suck, but does anyone know how to open new account they can not detect is the same seller? | | |
| Amazon gift refund sucks, I've been dealing with them for 5 months now and demanded a check that I can cash, they still got it wrong and sent an e-cert instead. I told them I have no intensions of using their service. I have a BBB complaint on them. I keep getting passed on to a different department. DO NOT USE AMAZON!!!! | | |
| MAN AMAZON IS FULL OF SHIT. THEY JUST CLOSED MY ACCOUNT. I AM A LICENSED DEALER AND I SOLD 3700 DOLLARS IN DVD'S. THEY SAID I WOULD HAVE MY MONEY FOR 90 DAYS. WHAT TYPE OF SHIT IS THIS | | |
FASCISM. Just shut down my seller account. The transfer i had initiated two days before had been canceled. All because the BUYER got refunded in the A2z (funded by Amazon not me since I successfully contested it). If you count having your entire WAREHOUSE of amazon items removed from listing each with personal desciptions not cookie cutter "ships fast" messages with no warning and your supplimental income removed arbitrarily.
This is wrong. Circumvention WILL occur believe it. Enemies of the righteous!
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| how do you successfully contest their stupid A to Z guarantee? No matter what I do they ALWAYS win. Basically someone can just choose to steal your stuff whenever they want to it seems. I sold about 100 products a week since December but I am abou to close up my account since these dishonest assholes are sucking me dry. I had98% feedback, tracking numbers and even sent out everything first class mail instead of media mail, but none of it seemed to matter. I've paid these guys THOUSANDS of dollars in commission alone in just 4 months and they dont give a shit at all. | | |
| These fuckers just closed me down after a year of taking my money. I gave them thousands. I really want to sue them. Anyone know what evidence I can sue them under? They even took my money when items were claim delivered and customer said they it was lost. Anyone got any ideas or want to sue them, please give me suggestion. | | |
| Anyone has any sued results? Has anyone sued Amazon and received any results? | | |
Has Amazon ripped you off or blocked your account?
Forget Amazon Alliance or customer service– when you threaten to sue – you’ll get one fast response-
I sued, I got reimbursed and reinstated, when they play hardball just persist –when they realize you’re serious about a suit – they’ll quickly bow down
Visit. The American Arbitration Ass. They handle issues of this sort
file your claim at: http://www.adr.org/-
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| adr.org or AAA is a mediator, Amazon can choose not to participate and the case would end up worthless. | | |
| crossroad: you should check if the item was shipped or not from your amazon account.. sometimes your email system could be failed that's why you did not received a notification email (seller have to provide tracking number to Amazon if not payment will be returned to buyer) | | |
| check out this blog.. amazonaccount.blogspot.com | | |
Ok, so Amazon Sucks... but from what I can tell the grass is not greener on the other storefronts as well? Question/Challenge: What are the qualities of the perfect online store to sell your wares? I think that everyone wants a place that customers will feel safe purchasing.. For all of the negative of the AtoZ program it does make the buyers safe.
The reason that I ask is that I am investigating opening up a competitor to AZ/EBAY et al...
So let me hear it from you folks.. what would the perfect Online mall be like? | | |
| www.freesell.com is FREE and easy and needs to grow. I am sick of amazon and ebay and paypal they all think they own you -- this is the very reason most of us are in business for ourselves is NOT to be owned. We all need to fight back do everything you can. | | |
amazon could have system where buyers had to prove they had e-mailed sellers before allowing buyers to post poor feedback after 5days
amazon is fundamentally corrupt-it has ruined 1000s of small sellers by deception-but how to get revenge>> | | |
| I got blocked by Amazon for no good reason, I had great feedback and they just closed me down after selling for them for years. I have lost all income I needed to support my family, If anybody can help, please do! | | |
| Amazon has taken it upon themselves to close my account and not return any of my emails regarding my claim. I have thousands of dollars that they will not dispurse to me and customer service will only give me an email address. How does alliance@amazon.com not have a physical address or a fax machine. This is what they've done. If you find that wonderful niche of products that sell like I did ($2,789.00 in 3 days) they shut you down immediately and claim illegal activities. Amazon.com has used ebay's success to find all these business minded little people and when these people find a way to make good money they close down their account and take over that niche with their own products. The problem is I have 100% positive feedback and they have still closed my account. Go figure. Who can help? | | |
Oh please. Most of you people provide precious few details on why Amazon would just shut you down. Something tells me that most of you are full of c***.
And sellers most certainly CAN respond to buyer feedback. I do it all the time. | | |
| I have come to the conclusion that all the people who defend Amazon are either amazon employees or very ignorant (not stupid) You are ignorant because you have not yet experienced the total devastation, pain and misery that comes from a large account being closed by amazon for no good reason. I only hope you remain ignorant because I hope this never happens to you. Just be careful, because if you talk crap about good people who have been wronged then you never know when karma may just turn to you and bite you in the ass. Although my life has been put in a temporary state of ruin, I hope nothing but good things for all of you and I hope I have offended no one. Thanks | | |
AMAZON DOES NOT SHUT DOWN A SITE FOR "NO GOOD REASON."
You, Lee, need to come clean about why Amazon would just randomly shut you down...and lose money themselves over your lost sales.
It is NOT good business either way. Repeat: NOT GOOD BUSINESS.
And no, don't feed more lies about people here defending Amazon because we are employees of theirs. Talk about more crap...
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I thought you could not publicly make remarks if you worked for a company? Did rules change?
This seems pretty unproffesional... | | |
| Yes, Just another Amazon "Cheerleader" who believes all is rosy at amazon and that we just haven't found the "Weapons of Mass Destructions" yet and OJ is innocent too. Must be nice to live in a fantasy world.... | | |
| I used to sell on amazon. I was making good sales too, until amazon shut me down saying that my account was linked to another account that had been blocked. Turns out my teenage son used to sell his textbooks back to amazon and got blocked for negative feedback. I tried to talk to the alliance but all I recieved were automated messeges that said they had investigated the matter and would not reply or communicate further. I sell on half now, but sales have never been the same. | | |
I'm not big on blogging but it's a platform I do respect and appreciate. For me to be typing here right now just explains how ticked off I am. It’s my fault really, since I did not do my homework before starting to sell on Amazon.
I signed up as a seller friday afternoon (April 20, 2007). Within the hour I made a sale. WOW!! I Could not believe it. I Just made $48.33 profit after Amazon take their chunk out of my sale. I felt very good about the fast sale I made so nothing could hold me in bed the following morning (Saturday). 6:07AM I logged into my sellers account. Goodness gracious, I made three more sales! Could this be for real? Folks, for an amateur seller like me, I just made over $230.00 in PROFIT in less than 20 hours on Amazon. Keep in mind, I use drop shippers and these guys are following through for me on eBay right now. I know they would do the same for my Amazon customers as long as I have them to ship within their shipping zones. I’ve never gotten one negative feedback that tracks back to my drop shippers shipping to the wrong address or an incorrect item. These folks are true professionals and as a business partner, I trust them.
I could not contain myself. I asked my wife to let us go for a walk after she got up out of bed. We walked, brainstormed, envisioned our 'bright future' and revisited our financial plans. Literally, I saw us buying a new SUV within a matter of months (from Amazon profits alone) as we are expecting a new baby. I knew I was selling items very high in demand but had no idea the sales would be so fast. Seriously.
An hour and a half larter we returned. I went into my email inbox first and saw an email entittled ' Notice: Your Amazon.com Account' from 'Amazon.com'.
I had no idea what to expect so I opened it only to find out that my account has been blocked and the last three sales I made were cancelled. This ticked me off completely as Amazon did not specifically state why my account has been blocked. They were very general and un-American-like. They went on stating that funds in my account will be on hold for up to 90 days and I should refund all pending orders and make sure customers receive all orders that have been shipped...
I emailed Alliance immediately. Even though I knew I would not receive a legitimate response, I did anyway. I knew because I know my way around the net and have been on long enough to know about auto responses and fixed emails.
They responded just as I expected and I guess my next step is to contact Jeff or email customer service. After reading these threads I really have no intention to get hype about Amazon despite the fast sales.
I have two eBay accounts and consider myself an above average internet marketer (sponsored listings on overture and Google does work). I should be okay with those but Amazon just messed up a good thing and I do not know what to read of it. Do they see me as a potential competitor with the prices I offer or did I really messed up and deserve losing my account privileges? If they had reasons to pull/ block my account, why didn't they specify and why not give me a chance to make it right? I guess they don't believe in giving warnings.
Amazon.com/ Amazon Alliance, (I know you could be reading this thread), do you mind considering having an independent third party team monitor a questionnaire of survey based on your business practices for both buyers and sellers and make the results public? Sellers and Buyers, how about us writing to talk shows such as Oprah or news sites such as CNN NBC or MSNBC and request a show/ story on how Amazon do business? Is this too much to ask? After all, if they believe in what they do they would definitely embrace the free publicity. Correct? Enough said!
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g. offers, what was your amazon seller name?
what kind of stuff were you selling?
it's weird that amazon just shuts someone down that fast. | | |
| G. Offers is bullshittin'. simple. Amazon wouldn't shut down your shit simply cause you making some sales. Nope - he tryed to do them shady or had a bad account with 'em before or sumthin so they cut his azz | | |
| It works both ways. I recently had a scummy buyer who apparently knows scheming ways of purchasing an item, leaving bad feedback and getting a refund. Amazon has done nothing to the buyer (but sent me an apology – oh gee…thanks for the sympathy). Don’t worry my dearest scum we’ve got plenty of evidence and information on you - see you in small claims. Oh by the way, you’ll be paying interest, court fees and for our attorney when we’re done. | | |
I mean people honestly read this board and try to defend Amazon. WHY? Its no good in my opinion in customer service at all. I actually tried to call the Alliance. Try to call Amazon and ask for Alliance.
Nothing. enough said | | |
| What a bunch of morons! I'm glad you were all kicked off Amazon. | | |
| amazon are holding my money and they expect to get away with i have done everything they asked and they still have not took off the hold i find them unhelpful and annoying up to 30 days yeah right more like longer i get automated emails from them and when i phone they just palm me off and tell me to email them what is the point | | |
http://www.doj.state.or.us/
Im a firm believer the good state of Oregon Attorney general will like to know about this blog and the hurt Amazon brings to bussines.
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| record collectors guild has started offerring FREE RECORD AUCTION LISTINGS to it's members. all these book selling sites are too greedy. a new site needs to be created. gemm.com offers a decent rate of commision for book sales, but they don't market themselves. a great site for sellers and buyers would certainly be self marketing though as many are expressing concerns re: amazon SUCKS ASS, through forums. i think a good move in the final stages of amazon selling would be to tell buyers where to find you and other sellers on a good site, and tell them to check out forums. | | |
HELLO BOYS AND GIRLS !!!!
HERE IS THE NAME AND PHONE # OF WHO YOU ALL NEED TO CALL AND MAKE HER LIFE A LIVING HELL
Rachel Schopen
Alliance Department
Amazon.com Seller Support
(206) 622-2335
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i'm both a buyer and a seller on amazon.com. and i agree with all of u sellers out there that amazon's definitely on the buyer's side....no question! i'm a buyers too, so i represent both side of the tracks....any time some dumbass gives you a wrong address the SELLER gets screwed. Not only do u have to give a full refund, AND you also get a negative feedback --- simply becuz some moron forgets to include an apartment #.
i make about 500 dollars in profit per month and would make 3 times if it wasn't for some dumbass giving me a negative feedback becuz HE/SHE didn't provide me with the correct address to begin with....ruined my otherwise perfect feedback rating.
like many of you, i have emailed amazon trying to get an answer, one example: some guy gave me the wrong address and demanded a full refund, i got his order returned to me with "no such address" stamped on the package and i was gonna provide amazon with the proof that it was actually the BUYER's fault that he didn't receive his order....finally, all i got was a response email saying "sorry that the buyer gave you the wrong shipping address, there's nothing we can do"....then 3 days later, they charged my account with a full refund....that's bullshit!
now from a buyer's perspective, i've bought quite a few items from amazon the last 3 years, and i can tell you this --- 99% of amazon sellers are legit...there are only a few crooks here and there, but BAD BUYERS far out-numbers the bad sellers, becuz the system is designed in HUGE FAVOR of the buyers. and i don't see amazon.com changing anything to protect its marketplace sellers anytime soon.
if i ever hear or read anything about people getting together (seriously) to file a lawsuit, then i'll be one of the first people signing up for this. | | |
oh and btw, i sold stuff on ebay too...about 4 years ago and eBay was full of shit too. still, it was better 4 years ago than what Amazon is today....at least its feedback system is fair to both the sellers and buyers. and eBay gives you a warning AND an explanation first before they shut you down for good.
here's what happened to me selling on eBay: i sold CDs, and just making a few hundreds of dollars a month as a side income to my full time gig....one day, out of nowhere, i got a warning email from eBay saying that i was selling unauthorized (bootlegs) CDs and i have to pull that specific CD off my store becuz the copyrightted owner filed a complain about the CD that i was selling, claiming it was a bootleg/pirated copy of his original work....what eBay didn't know was, i GOT THOSE CDS FROM THE ARTIST HIMSELF AND I HAVE EMAIL FROM THE ARTIST STATING THAT IT WAS FINE FOR ME TO DISTRIBUTE HIS CDS....despite the fact that i have proof that the CDs were legitimate, i obliged and took that particular title off of my inventory....then a few days later i got a email from eBay saying my seller account had been suspended indefinitely......they shut my store down, i had been a relatively new seller on eBay and was just starting to push my sales to a new plateau --- i was generating thousands in gross the week that eBay shut my shit down.....
amazon.com hasn't shut me down, yet...but i will heed the above comments and starting making DAILY fund transfers to my local bank account so i don't get screwed over....too much.
i was just about to expand my Amazon inventory but after reading all these comments i've decided to hold back....and open up my own web store, promote it, market it with some money, increase its traffic, and then sell my stuff......seems like the more difficult way to start up a web-based biz, since unlike amazon and ebay (which have millions of browsers hourly), but in the end, i'll stick with it and work from ground up, and i think it'll do alright as a 2nd source for income.
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Lori Alexia, your comment about me on April 25, 2007 at 12:47pm is somewhat questioning. However, you are totally entitled to your opinion and I do respect that. What I wrote was exactly what I experienced and I described what happened without exaggeration.
Did I have an account with Amazon prior to now? Absolutely not. Have I been kicked off Amazon before? Nope. I've had a log in for years and bought my first two items earlier this year. I bought my sister in law two books that she needed while pursuing her Masters. She was excited that I opened up an Amazon account knowing how ecommerce savvy I am. 24 hours later, no one could believe what happened.
The Alliance dept, Jeff and Jeff's office have been receiving emails from me ever since but their emails responses are very dull, cut and paste information that they keep sending.
'Disgruntled seller...Yeah AMAZON sucks', I would suggest you continue doing what you are doing. Don't go in too deep and frequently withdraw money and fund your bank account. You just never know who the Alliance team is going to target and when.
Had I known about this blog before I opened up my Amazon account I probably would not have or at least thought about it longer.
'Bag of retards' watch your words, they may come back and hurt you.
'How Funny', you said it right ... "I mean people honestly read this board and try to defend Amazon. WHY? " Could you please provide us with a link to an Amazon blog that discusses the opposite of what’s being tabulated here?
You will never clearly understand what some Amazon Sellers experience with Amazon Alliance until they come your way. For your sake, I do hope they don't.
Sincerely,
G. Offers
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Well I for one will admit my mistake with Amazon that got me blacked. I had an obnoxious customer who bought the wrong item, even tho the desc. was properly listed she did not read it, bought it, discovered it to be wrong and instead of emailing me to ask for a fix, which I would have asked her to return it for a refund, even if it was her mistake, she instead just left me a negative review. When I emailed her and asked her to return the item for a refund and also to remove her review, she emailed me back that she thought about removing the review but decided not to. I went into an overblown rage and sent her a angry, very, very angry email. Well... needless to say my rage got me the you are being blocked letter and they stole $900.00 from me. It seems that there are many customers on Amazon that would prefer to use the review process to get your attention about a problem whether it is theirs or yours instead of contacting you the seller first and giving you a chance to fix the issue first. Amazon gives you no recourse and you suffer with the results. I find that Amazon is as everyone here says, but I do have to agree with a few people, the anger and rage which is justified, merely waters down the facts and makes us less believable and less credible. We need to admit our mistakes here, Amazon might be an evil empire that needs to be brought down but it won't happen with rage. I have moved onto an Ebay store and have come to terms with the fact that I wont see the same sales I saw on Amazon for a while. Maybe we can sue but there are some of us like myself who have circumstances that might be just cause. I made my mistake, even tho I dont feel it was enough to completly block me, they make their decisions, I mean it is their web site. Anyway it is good to find other people who are and have gone thru the same emotions. Those of you who have and are still selling on Amazon, you must really be a soft sucker, to be able to take the abuse from the customers, I am learning, but still there are so many out there that just want to take you for a ride and know how to abuse the system to their advantage. Amazon knows about this site you know it, I am using my amazon name and I am not ashamed of it. Presently I am letting over 100 orders go into A-Z claims because I did not ship them when they blocked me, and when the customer emails me with an inquiry I tell them all about what Amazon is doing with their money and how they are being ripped off, and how they are probably buying stolen goods from Amazon. I also tell them that there is a possibilty of them getting arrested for receiving stolen goods. Admit it most of the sellers of CD/DVD's on Amazon are selling shoplifted goods, probably the clothes too. It a major fencing web site, all money laundering. A moatter of time before amazon is investigated and caught.
SCREWS TO AMAZON.COM | | |
g. offers,
you claim that you are innocent.
so why don't you tell us what your amazon seller name is so we can lookup your feedback from your customers?
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'B', thanks for your interest in my Amazon ID. With due respect it is of no importance for me to publicize the name. As mentioned, I was only on Amazon for less than 24 hours. There is nothing in my history to view.
The first order that came through, I immediately refunded the customer and explained to her what had happened. The other three orders, as Kilgor Trouts puts it, Amazon stole them and made them their own. No feedback was tabulated. Amazon did not give me a chance to receive any.
Sincerely,
G. Offers | | |
g. offers,
In your original post, you say that amazon/alliance canceled your account on a Saturday. Alliance doesn't even work on weekends. And they also canceled your account within 24 hours? That's crazy. | | |
Look B a fact is a fact. What is the number for alliance anyway? I would love some support.
I just cant seem to find the number to the Alliance...
Oh, is that because there is not one.. "Bingo" I think Im right. There is absolutely no number to the alliance for a reason. So they dont talk to you..
Of course that just my findings.
This board is right. sucky long time. | | |
That is correct ‘B’, I signed up for an Amazon store on a Friday afternoon. I went through the verification process, you know, where they have you submit your telephone number and they have an automated system call back right away so you can enter a 4 digit pin. They did call in under 45 seconds (impressive) that Friday afternoon. I was immediately verified and I started listing my items right away.
Less than two hours later I made my first sale. I continued to upload inventory to my store. I was very optimistic and motivated. I got up Saturday morning and noticed I made another three sales when I logged into my Sellers Account.
All was okay at this time with my account. I did not receive the 'Ship Now' email from Amazon. I guess their merchant account provider needed a little more time for the payments to be approved. This was when my expecting wife and I went for a walk. We were out for about 90 minutes. Remember, this was a Saturday morning. When we returned and logged back in, then was when I noticed that my Amazon account was cancelled. All this happened on a bright and perfect Saturday morning, presumably, according to you ‘B’, ALLIANCE DON'T WORK ON SATURDAYS. By the way, that suspension email came from Amazon Alliance. Am I supposed to think something of that statement made by you ‘B’? I'll leave this for the readers of this blog to decide.
Let's not lose focus ‘B’, I'm not the bad guy here. This blog does not identify me as the bad guy. Just a reminder, the big heading/ reason why we all post here is: “Have you considered selling on Amazon?” It Sucks ! NOT G. Offers sucks. Just scroll back up top and check for yourself.
Sincerely,
G. Offers.
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g. offers,
if you believe that are you are in the right, then why don't you take some action and sue amazon?
amazon can't just shut someone down for absolutely no reason.
get a lawyer and sue them | | |
With $7000 in my account they froze it for 30 days.
So they said, and then I kept on selling.
At that time it was $3K.
I figured okay, I was shipping, getting positive, no problem. I sent them tracking numbers, everything else under the sun.
It took them 2 weeks to give me the courtesy of a reply.
I get today a notice to fax ( again) the list of tracking numbers.
Not an hour later I get a notice my account is on hold for 90 days.
Linked to another account..which it is, but a buying account only. And not linked, but my daughter.
These guys are thieves.
Have anyone ever beat them.
Can we file a class action.
Email me at youcangetithere2003@yahoo.com
If you want to give me information.
And Amazon people, I am saving all emails so be careful what you write, and I save IP's
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To the person that said AMAZON does not have to abritate, as per their own agreement, they certainly do!
You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these terms and conditions shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Reno, Nevada, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Amazon's intellectual property rights, Amazon may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of Nevada, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this Agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Participation Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Participation Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
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Dear Mr. Jeff,
After thinking I would go on to Amazon to become a stellar client, I found myself after 2 weeks having about $4K blocked in reserve. Keep selling, and we will review your account you said. So I continued, sending email after email with absolutely no response for over 2 weeks. finally on the 13 day I get a request for delivery confirmations which had already been sent. ( note you blocked me on the 4th, and I got a response on the 22nd. If I did business like that, I would be out of business. ) If I shipped like that , it would be borderline mail fraud.
Each and every item was sent within 2 days, excluding weekends. I asked every single person if they would give feedback. Since Feedback is nothing with you as it is on eBay, most could not even figure out how to do it. I did not have time to give them instructions, but did tell them to go to help.
Slowly the feedback poured in. As I got a couple of small complaints, I sent free merchandise, and gifts, knowing they had got the items. Fearful of your A_Z , policy, I bent over backwards.
The A-Z policy is something you have in effect, yet you hold your sellers at hostage for those who don't deliver, and for you to have an awesome policy to boost your reputation.
Clearly that is what it is for.
After sitting down with a new spread sheet, hours later, after two months of selling, I get a your are blocked forever because of assocation with another account.
Seven people live in my home. I am not their keeper, and to find me liable for their actions is actually most likely something that can be pursued. A legal system of guilty without even being able to respond would find us all in jail.
Now you have $7K and have shut me down. Seven thousand dollars, luckily I can live without for a bit, but many could not.
I am going to make it my passion to stop this kind of nonsense. You must improve your customer service . I am 52, and to not be allowed to talk to anyone ever, and to get no response to emails, will sir catch up with you.
I am reporting this to the Attorney Generl both in Seattle and in Nevada. I am notifying the governor in both states, as well as better business. I am also going to file for abritation and for lost sales.
This is very, very unfair, and I am a person who believes in helping others and doing the right thing. However after reading all the blogs, and web sites, I see this is common practice with you. The Toys R Us Story amazes me. By the way, your two top toy sellers, Toy Wiz, and Collectors Paradise, I have supplied before as a distributor.
I fully expect no response or a canned one. Just remember being on top, makes it only one way to go, if you are not fair, and a good person.
Sincerely
Star Style Boutique
www.nevertoospoiled.com ( a new website coming that will have a link to all of this nonsense... DeleteReplyForwardMove...
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| remember, Amazon is in business to make money. They won't provide a platform to help YOU make money. They make selling on their website so hard to discourage sellers, so there will be fewer competition for them. And they don't require sellers to ship fast, so buyers will not buy from those sellers, they will buy from amazon instead. They did all those on purpose! It's so obvious. Business people are all evil | | |
| AMAZON is a nightmare. I've had a similar experience as some of you with them screwing-up the ship to address. Even worse, they tell you that they have your order in stock and ready and then it ships out two weeks later. I purchased a DVD set as a gift (4 different DVDs) and I received #3 and #4 after two weeks (not 5 days) and then I had to e-mail and call several times before I could get the other sent. It took a month!!!! And they didn't appologize, rather said there is no promise to deliver at any specific time. You can have it. I picked up all 4 at the local WalMart and CircuitCity the same day for the same price. | | |
Please, everyone. Post a complaint on the Better Business Bureau. I have posted one up. The more complaints we get, the better. Legal actions will be taken.
I hate Amazon too and trying to make a living. | | |
| Oh, and I agree that half.com has better inventory managing tools than Amazon!!! The appearance is also 10x better. | | |
I have been selling on Amazon.co.uk for over a month now, and things are going quite well. I'm not sure where you got the idea that you cannoy respond to feedback from, i'm pretty sure you can.
Amazon is much better than ebay, you have so much more protection against fraud when you buy from ebay. | | |
I agree with all of the complaints on this site. My company just had their account blocked for no apparent reason. I assure you, we are an honest business that had a 100% feedback rating and did a good job of shipping items very quickly.
We got the "your account has been linked to a previous acount that has broken community rules" form letter. We've never had a previous account!! Basically, Amazon.com is COMPLETELY slanted to the buyer, not the third party seller. Any buyer can put any seller out of business with one negative comment (whether true or not!!!)
The "Alliance" at Amazon is one of the worst business models in American history. There is certainly a reason why they have garnered the "Gestapo" moniker.
Amazon.com should be banned by all consumers worldwide.
Those of you who defend Amazon have clearly never tried to sell on Amazon. It's great to get a few cheap deals as a buyer...it's another animal altogether as a seller!! | | |
| Come on Guys - Amazon is not that bad. What's bad is ebay. Suspended sellers keeps on creating new accounts and when you report it to them, they want proof, when you provide proof, they will look in to it but will not disclose the final outcome. 2 months down the road, those sellers are still there trying to scam more consumers. | | |
I used to sell on amazon too until they blocked my account for having negative feedbacks which are not absolutely true. They are holding my money for more than 30 days now.
At first I received an e-mail stating that my account is being reviewed.
It says "Please note that this is not necessarily a negative reflection of your selling history. This action is taken regularly on newer or fast growing accounts."
They asked me to submit tracking numbers for the shipped item and they even want to know other channels through which I sell.
To make the story short, I complied with their requests. After a few weeks, my account is blocked because 2 buyers left me negative feedback for not receiving a reply from me, which I can say a lie coz I replied right after I received their e-mails. Amazon's e-mail templates sucks!!!
I agree with all the other complaints here. For those of you who believes Amazon is great, just wait and see...
There is a section on Wikipedia that discuss Amazon.com. Readers can edit information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com
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| Holy cow! We've seen the future and it sucks! Amazon is the nightmare endgame of American capitalism. Like there is no accountability. They are so big they can do what they want. Hold your money, kick you off after years of fattening their bank account, crush your livelihood with an autogenerated message. We're talking Moloch, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Goebells, Eichmann all squeezed into a fucking computer, electronic nazism. | | |
| Amazon sucks bigtime.....My feedback was 100% then due to there system error some orders never arrived for a week ..by the time i posted, people were emailing me etc asking where books were...anyhow got negative feeback due to late arrival of books. I contacted Amazon and told them they were not bothered and had no concern at all....as you say it is all about the buyer and not the seller surely we have rights too...then they had the cheek to contact me about there concerns for my feedback dropping to beow 95% .....wel i could not believe it...ridiculous site....Does anyone know of any other sites to sell if so email me cheers | | |
| Sell on ABE and Alibris, and, if you can figure out the instructions, Half.com/eBay. Anything is better than making that a-----e Bezos a billionaire. | | |
| New to selling on amazon had 100% feedback items were shipped gave all tracking # 's to amazon .my funds put on reserve for 30-45 days .? whats the story gave all tracking #'s. plus received 2 neg feedbacks for no specified reason.the buyers do not contact sellers prior to leaving feedback.I do not understand these people.they receive a product then do not get incontact with you for over a week and then just leave negative feedback without contacting you first.If you went to the store and made a purchase and there was aproblem would you wait aweek to go back to the store no you would go back right away. same should apply here. they feel they can scam you over the internet.amazon better do right by their sellers or stop offering a third party sellers marketplace.this is not fair that the buyers receive their merchandise and amazon holds your money for it even providing tracking that it was delivered ...get it together amazon.. i will be moving my inventory elswhere | | |
If you ever had an amazon account and you had to fax over your tracking #'s. and it was closed down. then you start a new one and they ask to send tracking #'s via fax DO NOT USE THE SAME FAX MACHINE YOU USED FOR THE PREVIOUSE ACCOUNT THAT WAS CLOSED !!
each fax machine has its own id code that can not be blocked even if you have your telephone # blocked. this is a government law for fax machines and nine out of ten times you will be shutdown due too this id and you will be linked to your old account... so do not do it. amazon sucks | | |
Amazon has committed so much illegal behavior towards its sellers. Compared to eBay, Amazon.com is just outrageous.
Toys R Us sued Amazon.com. We sellers need to organize and file a class-action lawsuit against amazon.com.
I for some reason, know that some people working at amazon.com are looking at our sales data, and figure out what items are making good profits. They leak this information out to their family and friends, and let them start businesses on amazon.com.
Once I created this item on amazon.com, got an ASIN and even a UPC #, I sold tens of thousands of $$$ on this item, made a good profit. And then suddenly my account got blocked without me even getting an email notice from them, and other sellers started selling the item at 50% my price. I had some new accounts created by my friends, and those got blocked too! Amazon.com block us all so they can sell the item themselves! I know those new sellers are linked to those people working at amazon.com, especially the alliance@amazon.com people. They are unscrupulous. They need to be investigated. They steal our sales data and use it to their own advantage illegally. They profit on us.
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| I've only dealt with amazon.com a few times, but have to say I have been very pleased. Prices are good and shipping was also good. One purchase was bad and they refunded my return postage. I had a very good selling experience. Amazon is very different in offering contact with a "live" person for customer service. That is great. I've seen many feedback rebuttals, so have to question that claim. One thing they need to improve on is the seller notification process. | | |
| Think twice before selling unique items on Amazon. We have been selling on Amazon for almost a year. We had some very unique item that nobody else sell on the Internet and were making good profit on Amazon. Few months later, we noticed that Amazon started selling these items themselves and we stopped receiving orders for these items. Amazon had rubbed us!!! They invite you to sell on their website only to get free marketing data so they can eventually kick you out and make more money themselves. Shame on Amazon.com!!!!!!!!!! | | |
I am so very sorry to bother you with my problem, I know I am nobody special and I have little hope that you have time to bother with someone like me. I am not famous or a politician or a wealthy man. Actually I am poor by most standards only renting a home in which my family and I live (I have a wife and 3 children) Why am I emailing you? I have never written an email to anyone for help until now but I have tried everything else and I am hoping that someone (even one person with influence) may be able to help me. I will try to give you the short version of a long story.
I was a video tape seller on Amazon.com, I started this when I was laid off from a big corporation and could not find work. I was doing allright and made some money from this for a while, not alot but enough to support my family but no more.
All was going fine for a while but I am sorry to report, actually I am devastated to tell you that the amazon "Alliance Team" (an amazon watchdog team that sellers refer to as "The Gestapo" because they do what they want to whomever they want and do not have to have proof of wrongdoing to ruin someones life) They have made a terrible mistake by blocking my account. This means I can not get paid the money that customers have already sent for videos they purchased from me. They say they are holding the funds for up to 90 days. Which means I may and probably will not ever get the money. This is an error on their part that they say they will not reverse.
They have stated that they have blocked my account because I they feel i have tried to "Divert" customers from amazon, an accusation which is Absolutely Not True! And that they have absolutely no proof of whatsoever. I have Never tried to divert even one customer from the amazon site.
This is a terrible error on their part but so far they have refused to even consider unblocking my account. Meanwhile, I have no job, no money coming in, my good customers that are counting on me are not getting their orders because of this blocked account and I am losing thousands of dollars that my wife and three kids depend on to live.
I have an excellent feedback rating from my customers and many have written on my behalf to tell amazon that I Never, tried to divert them from the amazon site. I also have documented proof that what they accuse is not true. Also, I have found there are many websites dedicated to this problem and that amazon is doing this to countless others and getting away with it. I am hoping that if enough people get together, we can stop this cruel treatment of people. If you want to complain or fight back,
You may email them at Alliance@amazon.com
PS. Actually, anything anyone can do to help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You All! | | |
Leo start a new account up . get a new checking account in another name and a new cc in another name.if you are using cable modem or dsl . get rid of it and get a dialup service instead. reformat your computer reinstall your software and get a new shipping address . then you are good to go . start getting more sales to carry you till amazon gives you your funds. i know its tough but they are
corrupted ... | | |
| My concern is the $3.25 charge they're telling me they're going to take for a book I sell... The book is worth about $7.50.... and then if shipping is at all over their estimates, you eat that too-- ouch. | | |
Amazon sucks big time. i had made sales then they held my money for30 days. NOT IN THE POLICY agreement! then they released it. made more sales but have not received many feedbacks so your feedback rate climbs! no ato z claims and 1 refund due from buyers ordering mistake. receive a letter of notice about policy warning! asking why my feedback is the way it is? Now i explained to them i have not 1 a to z or claims . received 1 neg feedback from buyer because the item was shipped with tracking and shows delivey.
they had the wrong addresss on amazon. what am i a fucking mind reader.! You dont know your address asshole!So im to blame. anyway. buyers dont leave feedback so what am i supposed to do! now i ask amazon how to get the buyers to leave feedback even after sending repeated emails and notes in the packages..they get back
again not even answering my questions just some
typical canned letter about a to z claims and so on..
that did not even apply to my situation. so i emailed them again. now remember you have to kiss their ass like they are gods gift or these punk kids THAT'S RIGHT PUNK KIDS WORK FOR THEM!! Thats the mentality of amazon real buisness like.If these kids had a spat with their friends,grlfriends or a bug up their ass that day they will take it out on sellers accounts ! and shut you down.. anyway i eply again asking the same question how to get buyers to leave feedback after repeated atempts all very polite asking for help from alliance and being sincear . well these assholes get back saying this >>>
Hello from Amazon.com.
Thank you for writing.
Please note that your listings have been suspended and are currently
unavailable for sale. You may not sell on Amazon.com until further notice.
Amazon.com retains the right to immediately halt any auction or fixed
price sale, prevent or restrict access to the Site, including access
to seller account and seller tools.
The feedback, claims and/or refunds submitted to your seller account
profile indicate that a number of buyers have been dissatisfied with
the service you have provided. In an effort to help preserve a quality
buying experience for Amazon.com customers, your selling privileges
have been suspended indefinitely.
Your account is still accessible to you. If you still have items to
ship, please take appropriate steps to resolve your pending sales.
If you would like your selling privileges reinstated, please provide a
detailed account of the steps you will undertake to bring your
performance up to our standards.
Thank you for your understanding with our decision.
Best regards,
Alliance Program
Amazon.com
This is what help you get from amazons alliance team !! douuchbags!
now i cant sell and they just destrot=yed my life. their rating system is the most thoughtless process their should be no feedback system ata all it is clearly abused by buyers anyway ! the buyers think sellers are theives but in reality when a buyer makes a false claim saying he or she never received it.. i pull out the tracking # and shove it upp their ass!! fuck you amazon they should be shut down but they are corrupt just lie our so called govt!! they are lining the pockets of all the legislature in the cities they work out of. why
has their been not one class action lawsuit made?
no one waants to touch the case its a curupt society ran by amazon.com come on they let that douchbag creat a rocket? next it will be weapons of mass destruction. im contacting the federal trade commission but alot of good that will do as i email them jeff (bozak) will be under the table blowin the whole commission !!!!!
I see it this way if you want to make money then open your own website but how will peple now where you are and know about you with so many othersites you would be lost in the shuffle.i tried to make a living on amazon but it will not work i reapeat it will not work you will not be independant .
it is like you still have a boss.they still ciontrol your life.. you go to a job everyday and at any given day you can be let go . then you are assed out.. same as with amazon they are your boss. the only thing is with your job you get your last paycheck .. with amazon they hold all your money (yourpaycheck)for 90 days ++
i dont care what their policy states it is illegall...
if you value your merchandise sell eswher but to tell the truth internet selling is just plain terrible. im going back to work so that i have a weekly paycheck tired of amazons holding my money
just wanted to add my situation to this great site Keep it going
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| My husband and I began selling movies on Ebay about 6 years ago, and began selling on Amazon about 2 years ago. I will not keep my identity private, as it serves no purpose and I am not ashamed for all to know my selling names as has been stated previously in this blog. I sell under 2 user names on both Amazon and Ebay. 5jauctions and thelooneybin7, so you can feel free to check out my feedback and reputation on any of these and I am sure that you will find that my reputation speaks for itself. Both of my Amazon accounts were too closed on the same day July 11, 2007 as a matter of fact. Again, no clear explanation as to why. I can guess that the reason is for selling and creating listings for erotic features, however, if this offends anyone, I do apologize, however, I am a person who feels that adults have a right to make choices and that the poor military men deserve to be able to purchase these items. Now, you in judgement may say that this is wrong, however, Amazon themselves are listed under many X rated titles which they themselves have created the listings for. I was booted from Amazon, have tried to get back on without success, however, Amazon has kept all the listings I have created and are allowing other sellers to sell under these listings right now. They did not pull any of the items that I created listings for, so really why were we knocked off, but the items we were selling remain. I had never received any warning, however, I fortunately had been transferring funds from my seller account daily, so I didn't get hit as hard as many of you. I have read what everyone here has said, and will consider my own course of action as I will not publicize that along with my name and e-mail. I have had my struggles with Ebay as well, and they are no joy, but not as unreasonable as Amazon has been. At least Ebay will warn you, Amazon just cuts you loose. In any case, we have decided that although it will be a lot of work, we will be starting our own website and getting out from under the BIG BROTHER systems once and for all. If you are a good enough seller, then consider opening your own business and REALLY working for yourself, these sites are easy to sell on and Amazon made us quite a bit of money, however, we personally are too good to keep growing a business and allowing someone else to knock us back down. Now, we will become the competition. We are good at what we do, and I know we can make it without them. I am however, considering that link that 2 people posted (above) about Arbitration, both of them seemed to get results from doing that and that may be the best option for getting back what we've lost. Good Luck to all as we are all struggling with the same misfortune, however, remember it is true ~ what doesn't kill you DOES make you stronger!!! | | |
We got booted from amazon.com and were unsuccessful on trying to get back. They close your account without any notice and hold your money -- not for 90 days, but FOREVER.
Consider yourself lucky if you get your money after the 90-day hold. They now won't even let us log into Amazon.com to do refunds, and get customers' addresses for shipping! What a bastard, you fucking alliance@amazon.com!!!
I don't get to talk to them. They are silent. They do not respond to your emails. I don't know when we are going to get the money back except filing a suit against them. Has anybody had this experience before?
Amazon.com is worse than mafia. The US Attorney General needs to read this page!!!! Any attorney here? Please route this page to the right government authority so amazon.com gets punished for this utterly un-American and illegal behavior. | | |
| Amazon indeed sucks!!! they just suspended my Pro Selling account emailing me the generic canned letter stating it was link to a previously suspended account, which is impossible I never sold on Amazon before, sounds like Amazon is ticking off alot of sellers which in turn are most likely Amazon customers as well as in my case, my family and I spend 10's of thousands of dollars at Amazon every year most of the time they don't have the cheapest prices but they seemed to be one of the most honest company's online, so I didn't mind paying a little more for piece of mind, I'm also a stock holder as well and if this is how they treat honest sellers whom had no complaints against them then I need to rethink this company ethics, to so the least if this issue isn't resolved I WILL NOT be purchasing from Amazon ever again and I will immediatly cancel my Prime Membership and sell any and all of my Amazon shares, if they tick enough people off they are going to lose in the end, Amazon's motto should be "guilty till proven innocent" | | |
See the below previous posting. How do you setup a new Bank Account and Credit Card in a New/Different Name? Are there any problems with your Phone number too? Why is Dialup better? Do you need to do anything else? Thanks.
… start a new account up . get a new checking account in another name and a new cc in another name.if you are using cable modem or dsl . get rid of it and get a dialup service instead. reformat your computer reinstall your software and get a new shipping address . then you are good to go . start getting more sales to carry you till amazon gives you your funds. i know its tough but they are
corrupted ...
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Now amazon.com closed my seller account without even notifying me. I did not know until I tried to log in but found my access has been taken away!!!! No explanation given!!! They are also illegally holding my sales dollars without telling me when they are going to give me the money. By law Amazon.com is a tool I used to sell my stuff. This tool has no authority to hold my sales dollars whatsoever -- that falls into the realm of law, not you Amazon.com! I shipped all my sales orders to customers. If you suspect an honest seller, then you should not open up your platform to third-party sellers.
Amazon.com, go bankrupt!
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Anyone who wants to email me their story, with their name and address, I will ship a certified copy ( along with my long story) to the attorney General, and to others. We need to take action.
Email it to youcangetithere2003@yahoo.com.
Lets put an end to their crap | | |
| amazon fucks my face. Assholes | | |
| Good ol amazon strikes again !! Been seeling for six months 2 bogus neg feedbacks no refunds no ato z paid for prime and merchant programs .. sell around 500 items a month..no complaints at all. amazon sends me an email and holds my listings. saying people are dissastisfied.What a crock of shit.then 3 days later they release my listings but decide to hold my funds and they wanted to know how i can improve my selling.. What the hell is this . what information are they seeing that i am not!!No complaints no refunds no atz claims. contact alliance total 5 times in 30 days not one response..they originally told me to keep fufilling my orders.Im not loosing my items and postage! seen this before happening so i stopped mailing my stuff.They do this because they want an excuse to shut down your account. they are waiting for claims and badfeedback so that they can prey upon you and say hey see you have bad feedback claims and a to z's. all this could be avoided if you got paid but this is their buissness practice to steal from sellers!!!Seams like a shakedown to me!!I have 6000 sitting on their site. I cant afford to mail anything anymore . im not stupid but this long and no reply seams like they are going to ax my account. why is this.. Competiotion i think. They dont like it when sellers make money!!That is thebottom line...They have a 3rd party platform to fatten their wallet then they cut you looose and try to steal your money.Now they have not been stopped because theyhave payed off alot of people to protect them and fuck us.Do yourself a favor dont sell on amazon. The site is bogus and if anyone sticks up for amazon on this site should be castrated !!just like amazon has done to us all .destroyed our life.... | | |
i sell on amazon been on for about 8 months no claims refund rate 4% .What is amazons problem they send you warnings for performance if your refund rate goes over 5 %. this is impossible! what would they loike you to do ? dont mail anything and get a claim. money ..Now money is on hold for over 30 days no response to repeated emails sent to them . theywere supposed to rtelease it in 30 days.You know what they are doing these scumbags!1 they are waiting for a claim to have an excuse not to release it!! this is how they operate.piece of shit!! they told me to mail my items out, Yeah right!! were is my money.. seems like they stole it to me..5250 on hold for over 30 days and customers have received their items trackining on every package.. no response at all. sellers support # is a waste do not call them they have no mentality let alone cant tell you anything you want to know. they are just jelouse cocksuckers in my book...so these people hold your money. how about we hold their paychecks go to work for amonth and see how they like it!! dirtbbags.If you value your items then do not sell on amazon they will screw everyone. maybe not in the begining but down the line they will get everyones money. plus they block your account so you cant get into it this has to be against the law.
amazon is bad buissness and they are just like the scammers on the internet just that they have a website. eat shit amazon... | | |
AMAZON SUCKS!!!!
SELLING AND BUYING | | |
Hello,
I'm trying to organize a class action suit on behalf of sellers on amazon. if you feel you have been jilted by amazon, and have not received any response as to why, or have recieved a response but disagree, please forward your information to me and i will present it to my lawyer. Please include what stopped your selling on amazon (what they did and what you did).
thanks
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| oh yeah, re: the last post: my email is sweetdianamonroe@yahoo.com | | |
| I am looking into making a TV commercial about Amazon policy's to air on major channels. Please email any information or story's. | | |
| RE: Suing Amazon will not make a difference, but letting the world know what happens at Amazon will. | | |
my money is on hold also no response over 10 emails selling for 1 year no claims feedback 98%
what the fuck. This is why amazons profit is up 3 times from last year ! they stole our money ..mother fuckers!! | | |
| Amazon is the fucking bomb I made 5G's last month and all with no extras or hassels. All you haters suck cock for free while im getting PAID for my shit. Later Haters. | | |
Nice mouth !! seams to me you are a dirtbag tramp with a
gutter mouth so go back in your hole loser.Like your five grand? soon you'll be posting your bitterness on here too, just like us !Then well tell you to go fuck yourself in plain english !! | | |
| amazon stole my funds too!! first they tell me 30 days then 45 days. This is criminal.. there has to be something that can be done . they dont answer emails ,seller support is a bunch of hicks with no answeres they sit their on the phone saying i dont know! If you don't know anything then go back to retail stores and stock shelves you waste product!! 3500 on hold no response no claims feedback 96% .... | | |
I was thinking about selling on amazon,but canceled the process . So many negative feedbacks here.
Is ebay any better , items there cheaper, i heard lots of scams. I haven't had a bad experiences with amazon.but all you you cant be lying | | |
| I contacted Amazon customer service today after waiting 90-days for my money ($1432) and was instructed to email: payments-funds@amazon.com requesting the funds be released as the 90-day grace period has passed. fingers crossed for my money!!! | | |
| i was a seller on amazon until my account was blocked because people left false feedback! with ebay you can only leave feedback when you buy an item with amazon you can leave feedback for a seller youve never bought anything from | | |
| Wow, I got a response from Amazon on the same day. Amazon informs me that I should get my money back in five business days. | | |
| Amazon is horrible!! they just block accounts even good ones because if you make alot of money they investigate you. Then why have a marketplace selling on the site. just sell themselves...The reason being is not to many people buy from amazon them selves it is the third party sellers they keep the site going. so they feel they can steel our money. screw you amazon I'll move to another site. your policy does not hold water and they make sure that you cant access your account when they shut you down. seller support acts like you have the plague when you call . fucking inconsiderate pricks I say !! stole my money too !! I lost everything ill be on the street soon thanks to amazon.com... been a seller for 5 years.It does not matter how long you have been on the site they will just kick you off with no explanation....Do NOT trust this company or any other company that has their own payment setup. amazon payments paypal or bid pay just have your own merchant account and you wont have to worry if your money is held !!! screw amazon ebay and paypal corprate scumbags !!!!!! | | |
Today i filed a complaint with the attorney general of Seattle you can do this on line.
Be sure and do..takes a few minutes...here is their info
Kathryn M. Sheehan
Senior Corporate Counsel
Amazon.com
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
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amazon shut my account after holding funds for 45 days. sent standard letter saying performance was not up to par with their bullshit policy.They put my funds on reserve for no reason . selling for 1 year no atoz claims feedback 99%. 1 neg feedback that was falsified by the buyer (never received item) tracking shows delivered..
Amazon just wanted to steel the money..Do not believe everything they tell you..they say they will release your funds but they never do. once you get the canned letter from alliance about them reserving your money. then i tell you know do not ship your items consider your account closed!! They want to make interest on your account that is it .Then they shut the door on you like you are Garbage.once you receive that nice welcome letter from alliance in your mailbox then shut down your listings!!! You do not want people purchaseing from you and you do not get paid... This is how amazon makes their money..They have the prime and merchant programs.. This is a scam to steal more money from sellers!!You think this would cement your selling on their site when you apply for this .YEAH RIGHT..does not matter they are just taking advantage of sellers and that is it .Bottom line amazon is using the internet and third party seller platform to line their pockets and they are abusing the seller...rot in hell amazon you will be put out of buisness. maybe not right away but you will as soon as the media takes the shit out of their eyes!! | | |
| Does anyone have copies of the seller agreement and/or review email and/or close of account email from: June 06, July 06, October 06, Dec 06, Jan 07, Mar 07, may 07, june 07, and/or july 07 ? If so, please forward them to me. I am sure that many of them are changed. They have recently (in the past month or so) updated their policies. | | |
| Are there more blogs like this one? should be in my opinion. I cant believe Amazon would treat people this way. REally a corporate embarassement waiting to happen. Seems like bad PR, plus bad promotion of the site. They actually kick willing sellers from thier site and hold thier money at that. ech... PLease .... | | |
| I knew it sounded to good to be true. I was doing research today on how to sell using amazon and ebay. I am glad I found and read this, thanks for stopping me. | | |
| Amazon does have problems and it is getting worse by the day. 100% of the problems are created by Amazon because of their lack of being professional plus there is no one to talk to about resolving issues. They are now not responding to customer service request. But the biggest issse in being a seller is that Amazon now competes against the seller. There is an item on Amazon that is being sold by 6 different people. Amazon has the cheapest price and is doing Free Shipping. Great if you are the consumer but what about the other 5 merchants that are getting "stabbed' in the back and ZERO sales. | | |
Our company has sold over 400 pieces of an item on Amazon this year. Things were going pretty good then all of the sudden sales stopped. Seemed vary strange. So we did a little checking and found out that Amazon now sells the exact same item through them at a cheaper price plus Free Shipping. There were also 5 other merchants with the same item and now we are all screwed.
I assume the saw the volume of sales with this item and then found out they could acquire it themselves and take over this heavy sales volume.
We tried to test and see if we could compete with them by lowering the price and offering Free Shipping ourselves but they maintained 1st position for themselves and would not show our offer of Free Shipping which should have put us in the #1 slot. The free shipping would only show up as a credit after the order was completed so the Free Ship offer was hidden even though it was set up as a promotion.
In looking into Amazon in general there are major problems here and they are being amplified on a daily basis. So at what point does Amazon go out of business because of their poor business decisions.??
Our company has many other venues for selling our products so we do not need Amazon to survive. It has just been additional business these past 5 years with constant growth but now for the first time we are seeing sales decreases because of their actions and not anything we are doing as a company. | | |
They closed my account claming that my account got related to some other violated account. That was just a lie. there was no body else selling on amazon.com who is related to me at all.
i have full 96% feedback. 100% for current month. 100% for 90 days and 96% for total and sold more than 3 years. now they blocked my account with $7100.00 . dont know whether they would send after 90 days or not. all the items have been shipped.
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I just got a notice saying that my account is being investigated and that my funds won't be available for 30 days. I have over $12,000 in the account! If I keep selling for another 30 days, I'll have well over $40,000 in the account. If at that point they tell me that they won't disburse my funds for 90 days or that they will NEVER disburse my funds, I am going to be in a very bad situation.
Does anyone have any advice? Should I keep selling? Or should I shut down my listings?
Also, has anyone sued Amazon? Feel free to email me if you don't want to post. | | |
| Can amazon.com detect matching inventories if I put my old stuff in my new account? | | |
We also have been chucked of Amazon and holding our money and this caused the company to stop operating for 2 weeks, we would be glad to take Amazon with you all to the High Courts.
We pulled back alot of orders from couriers in the lst 5 weeks due to Amazon holding money and they do not answer emails are very rude.
Thjey are using company's own ideas and products to sell them selves, this is why they chuck you off when you are doing very well, we did £8000 a month with them and blocked our account with no notice and cancelled all orders from the last 10 days although orders had gone out.
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| Where are all the Amazon Lovers now? Considering this blog has been up since Oct 3, 2004. Amazon is doing great in the PR department with buyers and sellers. Not! | | |
OK. I ate the bag of dicks. Needed something. I don't know... maybe salt, maybe hot sauce. My girlfriend suggested whipped cream, but that's gross. She finished the lot after I lost interest.
Oh, yeah, Amazon. I buy and sell there all the time and don't have any problems whatsoever. Hey, how about you pea-brains going out and designing and maintaining a website like that, eh? How about it, butterfly-brains? Wrap your antennae around that one, if you dare.
Don't just sit there. Get started. You can call it Nile.com or Mississippi.com. Finally, good service and excellent opportunities for sellers, no matter that they are low life scumbags who can only defeat their fetish for firearms by replacing them with keyboards. This is big. Mickey Mouse big. Oops. Was that copyright infringement? I meant to say Donald Rat. Honest, I did.
Can you drop another B.O.D. by the house. My girlfriend is still hungry.
I ordered another book on Amazon tonight. It's called "Shakespeare: The Making of Man" I hope it has spicy pictures, or at least line drawings with adequate detail for amusement purposes.
Oops. Gotta go. The bag of vaginas from the other website just arrived. My girlfriend doesn't relish these, but I think they taste OK.
Ciao,
Ferdinando Viaginetto
BagOducks, Scotland | | |
I'm so glad that I found this board. I have been dealing with the emotional blowout following having my amazon.com account suspended after doing business with them for almost a decade. With four full time staff members, over 70,000 books listed in our inventory, and thousands of books selling a month, I have been having a wonderful time selling on amazon.com. We provide outstanding service, and have a 98% positive feedback rating, 1% neutral, and 1% negative. Our refunds are at around 10%, and have been this way since 2003. Apparently, they want our refunds to be at 5%, and just decided on a whim yesterday to close our account with absolutely no warning.
We went through having our funds frozen a few months back, and it took over three weeks, countless emails, telephone calls, and all of the nights worrying about my business to finally get those released.... and now, this.
I am beyond shocked that they would boot me off of their site when NOTHING has changed about the way that we have done business with them in almost a decade. With no telephone numbers, customer service to speak of, reference number for my case, case worker, anything, I am left sitting here with my staff busily working, none the wiser. All of my books are off line. My online business has been closed down, overnight.
Nevermind the 9/10 customers who DO get their books. And the 1 that doesn't - that is for a variety of reasons, as most sellers know - address errors, mislists, amazon.com not updating our inventory uploads fast enough and an item selling in the meantime, customer returns, customer cancellations, you name it. They don't seem to take this into consideration when looking at our refund rate.
We are an ethical company. We treat every single customer as an individual, take so much care when doing business, and provide prompt, efficient service. We refund immediately when an item is no longer in stock, provide links to other sellers on amazon.com, and work extremely hard to keep our database up to date and correct. To be treated like this is beyond comprehension, when I have satisfied literally hundreds of thousands of their customers over the years with our outstanding service and good quality books.
Now I'm left shellshocked, trying to figure out how to generate the revenue that I will lose by not being with amazon.com. I will try to get back on with them, I really will, but do not have confidence selling with a site that is so willing to dispose of reputable, responsible sellers without so much as a second thought.
Anyone with any contacts at alliance would be much, much appreciated, any words of wisdom, encouragement, etc... please email me! | | |
Hi all
I was a disabled seller on amazon.com until they took all my money away that I use to buy my medicine every month and to have a live in medical aid.
I had to let go my live in aid because I could not afford to keep them.
Now I just get help once a day and have lay in bed all day because I cannot get out by myself.
I too was selling at amazon.com and I was doing very well until I was selling many items.
Amazon.com put a hold on my account first for 30 days after I have been with them for almost a year.
Then I received an e-mail saying that I had another account with them under another name witch was false.
I e-mailed them back with all of my documents showing who I am I even gave them my birth certificate and drivers license.
Amazon.com e-mailed me back and said that they have all the evidence that I did have another account. In addition, I said please let me see all of this so-called evidence. In addition, they never e-mailed me or sent anything back to me.
However, they are now holding all of my money now for 90 days instead of the 30 days.
Even when I sent out all the orders, they gave me out during this hold.
In addition, I gave them all the tracking numbers showing that all of my customers received them.
Still they will not release my money into my bank account.
Now they will not let me sell on amazon.com. Even when they told me that, I had to ship out all orders bought from my customers.
Now I see that they did me a favor because they are scammers.
In addition, anyone who can take money away from a disabled person is hard up in my book.
I worked very hard selling all my items by myself.
I was trying to make enough money to pay for all my medicines each month.
I do not know what I will do if they do not give me the money that they owe me.
I would not be able to live without the money amazon.com owes me.
This money has to do with my quality of life and they are playing with it as if I do not matter.
Moreover, I am not someone that just wants to earn some extra money.
Please if someone can help me please let me know what I can do I really need all the help I can get.
Thank you very much
Joe check
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They think they are above the law. Remember to email jeff@amazon.com daily,,,the head guy and torture him. Also send letter to Attorney General.
Mess with them, like they are with you.
I finally got my money 89 days later, and believe me, if they did not give it to me I was suing.
Dont let them get away with it...send letter, call and more! | | |
I haven't gotten a clear reason WHY Amazon would be "holding" your money or freezing your accounts but I have been selling for almost 3 years, my girlfriend has been selling for 3, her mom has been selling for 4 and makes over 100k a year. None of us have experienced the kind of behavior you all are talking about.
WHY do you have thousands of dollars in your accounts? If you're making $1000s+ a day (or even $10 a day), transfer the money each night. We do this because we want the money in our bank accounts, not in Amazon's, as I'm sure all of you do as well.
Each of us has had listings closed here or there, or sometimes listings don't appear when you search for an item from the front page but we chalk these up to Amazon tweaking their system for efficiency, to increase sales, prevent spammers and other maintenance reasons.
Occassionally, a buyer will get annoyed that they didn't receive their item a day after it was bought because they, nor Amazon, understand or state just how long it takes to get things through the mail. Get a bad feedback? Try working it out with the customer. They can remove feedbacks and you can respond to feedbacks if they won't. Amazon has paid some or all of our bills for a long time so I'm having a hard time accepting that it's some kind of evil machine bent on stealing your money or closing your accounts.
Think about it, how does Amazon make money? They make a commission on sales, the monthly Pro Merchant fee and their own sales (which they fulfill). Closing seller accounts or stealing money would jeopardize their bottom line.
Out of curiousity, what kinds of things do you all sell? We handle books and other media mostly. Maybe it has something to do with WHAT you're selling, not how you are selling it.
In the end, you should transfer any money you made DAILY so you have as little in your Amazon account as possible, thereby minimizing the cost you would have if some kind of shenanigans happened. | | |
Oh, and for god's sake, validate the mailing addresses before you ship stuff out. I assume you all are printing your own postage, not waiting in line at the post office, UPS or FedEx desks. I use software from endicia.com and it allows me to verify the address given before printing the mailing label.
Don't have postage software?
Try using Google or Yahoo Maps to validate the addresses. It's as good as the postage apps at validation and it's free.
Look out for yourselves. No one else will do it for you. | | |
| I was blocked from selling on Amazon with a 99.9% postive feedback. I have opened accounts under other emails and names to try to sell again but they have some way of telling. Does anyone know a way around it? | | |
I have a simple comment to make, all of this gripes and crys I will download the Terms and Conditions and since I have a lawyer on tap I will read and foward to my Lawyer for review before I put an account online there.
I have yet to find a solution not fixed when I send a complaint to the AG's office and BBB for a legit complaint. I send all letters CRMRR and state my rights. | | |
I think AMAZON can track your login thru your computer IP address........So, you can keep opening accounts. Same thing happened to me..
I had 541 sells in 2 months...Next thing I know they kicked me off for no reason...And now they want give me my money. Nor will they give me the AMAZON ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT phone #...Nor will they give me the info for their CEO. They said I have to google it and try to find it myself. So, right now they have my $1500 bucks and nothing I can do.
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I guess I am another ticked off ex-seller of Amazon, I have a perfect feedback rating 100%, and they sent me the letter
"This message is to inform you that we have blocked your Amazon.com selling account. Your open listings have been cancelled and you are no longer able to sell on our site."
Maybe they should just stop allowing sellers to sell on there site, and try to make it on there own, because all there doing is driving both customers, and sellers away. They said to me, You may not sell on our site.
Now I sat to them "I will never ever buy from them, or there sellers again at there site".
No wonder why ebay is the number one auction leader.
EVERYONE PROTEST AMAZON, SHOP AND SELL EBAY
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I have an idea, If anyone has bought anything on Amazon, and needs to leave feedback,
Leave the worst feedback you can even if it is for a Amazon seller, and type in these words in the feedback section in all CAPS "PROTEST AMAZON, http://sillytech.com/threads/1065?post_success
I THINK EVENTUALLY SELLERS, AND CUSTOMERS WILL GET THE POINT. IT HAS TO HIT THERE POCKET BOOKS | | |
I've been sell on Amazon for about a year now. I have about 15K items listed and I make about 10K a month in gross sales. I agree Amazon's policies suck but you all must remember Amazon is in business for them - NOT you. Do not make Amazon your only source of business income. Remember it is THEIR site. What if they go down or go out of business? you are screwed. Sell in many forums.
eBay is a ripoff for large sellers. but I find if you just get a store, list a small amount of items inauction format weekly you will get decent sales. Also I have recently discovered uBid which is a great kept secret.
Use Amazon for what its worth just don't invest too much & all will be good. | | |
Somehow Ron your missing the message when you said "Amazon is in business for them, - NOT you"
We are there customers, and sellers. We are not only purchasing there products, but selling to make them a profit. It is not right that they have turned into these big corporate thugs, bullys. In many ways they remind me of greedy, selfish, uncaring Mr Potter of Its a wonderful life.
I just think that businesses like AMAZON need to know that they cant treat individuals that are trying to provide for there families the way they do
To all of the George Baileys, Rise up, and Protest Amazon | | |
| Ron is a cloney. He shows up from time to time on boards to drop Amazon rules notes. By the way Im yet to see a seller on the Amazon site with feedback ratings close to an ebay seller. | | |
To open a new account and not shut down:
New Address
New Bank Account Num
New Credit Card (linked to that New Address)
New Name ?? (Now thats flat out fraud, do as you wish)
New Phone (in the area of your new address)
New IP (use free dialup in whatever area your New Address is at)
You can obtain everything legally, if you still cant get passed with ALL NEW info, then they must be intercepting your brain waves! | | |
| ^ Low Ballers... how about Matching Inventories? You need a new inventory as well right? | | |
The attorney we need is the guy in Mississippi who brought the tobacco companies to there knees, Richard Scruggs. He's now working on some hospital class actions and Katrina concerns. Here is a website about his firm:
www.ohac.org/pdf/Lawsuit%20PR.pdf
I knew him while in college and his mom worked for my brother-in-law as a legal secretary. He's a really nice man who worked really hard to get where he is....and nothing scares him!! Saw him on the cover of fortune 500 magazine.
We should also all write to (email) Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV show and point him to the websites with Amazon concerns. He has an enorrnous effect on stock market......and he's an attorney!!
However, can we please clean up the language!!! I don't want to offend the very people who might help us!!!!!!!!!
I have difficulty allowing myself to read some of this due to the language. If you want everyone to listen, then stop being offensive even if you are mad! I'm angry too!!! | | |
amazon is a scam. they have people working for them and purchasing from small sellers. then they leave you bad feedback!! also small sellers have no protection on amazon! amazon protects all large sellers they cancel your order and give you a bogus email stateing that your cc was declined from your bank .you will have to update it..this is because they are afraid that you will leave the seller neg feedback and this would hurt amazons profits!
they are just abunch of theives that is it. if they have a feedback rating sysyem than why cant we give them feedback also?This would really fuck them up !!the truth would come out !! | | |
| amazon reserves the right to give a refund to the buyer even if the seller has tracking id or delivery confirmation to prove that the buyer received the book! How's that for a lopsided system designed to screw sellers. | | |
| I just discover this web site after I already sold some stuff on Amazon. I am scrue big time now. amazon were supose to pay me about $1600 today, and suddenly I received two email from them saying that 2 of my buyer had filled a claim against me for books they bought about 4 weeks ago and received 2 days after purchasded and they are being using since the biginning of the classes. after reading all this comment i know noe that this is a reason to not pay me my money.This is realy sad because I need that money to pay my credit card. This people got their books 4 weeks ago and suddenly filled claim the day i am suppose to get my money. They is something fishi about that, please guy let find the way to get hour money back, this is a scam. | | |
I also discovered this website and I am glad knowing I am not alone. I only being selling on amazon for about 1 1/2 months and gross 3000.00 in this little time. Everything was looking up, then the email came. You all know it, I seen it about 12 times just on thiss page.
I have been screwed also. I always transfer my money when something sold right away. So I had nothing on my account. Well these creeps transfer or should I say stole 450.00 money from my credit card and checking account that I had on file. Just in case someone dispute an item that they received. and will keep this money up to 90 days. I am steamming!!!!
Stacy | | |
| Boy I sure am glad I fould this site!! I have been trying to sell on Ebay with no avail at this time. I thought I would give Amazon a try and now after reading everyone's statements I will stick it out with EBay. If I was any of you who amazon owes money to seek out a lawyer who specializes in Ecommerec business. Thank you Thank you for saving me | | |
Amazon is just getting worse and worse.It used to be good like 4 years ago no problems like you are seeing now ! when you make a little money (seams like (2-5 thousand) a month) that is when the games start to happen. Buyers out of nowhere put in claims, buyers that you know have received their items and have been using them only complain when you ask for feedback. Since your selling status is based on feedback not number of sales you can be shut down and booted by a couple of neg.This is not fair a negative on this site drops your score like a bad habit ! they have buyeres working for them all over the place buyng from third party selleres to see how long it takes to get the item and if you really have it on hand. word to the wise SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION ON EVERYTHING!!!
Delivery confirmation does not mean jack squat when a theiving buyer wants to push the limits of the bogus
a to z policy !!! amazon is becoming a wash these days everyone is dipping their hands in and undercutting everybody by pennies and when all said and done by nickle and diming and the fees amazon takes then you are giving the item for free remember you have to pay for shipping and postal supplies. and figure in the fees..
so just be carefu land don't list what you don't have.even if you think you can get it on time from another buyer on the web. They are doing the same thing you are.And the bootlegs! Geez these will burn your stay fast.. they may look great but do not play 75% of the time..This will definetly axe your account and they will hold your funds to for 90 days. You will never see your money at that point.hireing a lawyer to get back lets say 2000.00 dollars.lawyer costs like 500 per hr or 1500 for there services . you are already losing.Amazon nows this so they figure who will spend this type of money to retrieve their funds no one will and that is why they are getting away with it. if it involves 10 20 30 thousand then it is worth it. little sellers is where amazon makes the profit . notice there sales jump more than the previous year ?
that is because they steal selleres money...just my opinion been selling on amazon for 10 years. im a small seller that was canned just like you
Feedback kills
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Richard Scruggs
The Scruggs Law Firm, P.A.
(662) 281-1212
I think the idea of Mississippi lawyer who sued the tobacco companies and won is a good idea for a class action attorney. Why not call or (better) write this man in mass to see if he's interested.Looked him up in wickipedia:
"Richard "Dickie" Scruggs was hired by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore to assist with a lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies in the 1990s. Prior to that he was known for his class action lawsuits against the asbestos industry. Settlement of the state's case against the tobacco companies was for 368 billion dollars (USD). His performance in this case was portrayed in the movie The Insider by Colm Feore. Scruggs also would lead and become a spokesman for the plaintiffs in the Ritalin class action lawsuits. He asserted that the Ritalin defendants, "manufactured a disease"...and "it has been grossly over-prescribed. It is a huge risk." All five class actions in five separate states were dismissed before trial.
Scruggs attended law school at the University of Mississippi with Mike Moore. He practiced law in Jackson, Mississippi and New York before opening his own private practice in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Location
120A Courthouse Square, P.O. Box 1136
Oxford, Mississippi 38655
go to Google and type the following in search and you can email his office:
The Scruggs Law Firm, P.A.
The other comment was probably right about using decent language if you want to be heard!
Scruggs' brother-in-law is Senator Trent Lott, former Majority Leader of the US Senate. Scruggs is currently representing Lott through the Scruggs Katrina Group in a lawsuit against insurance company State Farm because of damage stemming from Hurricane Katrina."
He sounds like "the Man" for the Amazon job!!! | | |
i went from Ebay to Amazon since i started to make more there .
i logged in from my brothers house to check my account which happens to be around the time i am hitting sales of £1000+ a day and a few days later my account is being investigated. i used up my savings to buy new stock and have dispatched all orders uptill today.
i have found out today that i have been blocked and they will keep my money for THREE MONTHS! ( i was unable to transfer becuase i was still in the "14 day we keep your money "period) . i am blocked since according to AMAZON i have more than one account.
i called and emailed to explain but got the same auto emails as everyone else is getting.
I am in the UK . are they legally allowed to do that?
UK Amazon Number 08002796620 | | |
TO: VICTIM'S OF AMAZON
This is most of us, Amazon has a funny way of saying you are screwed, by withholding our money. Or better yet stealing our money.
I too left Ebay and went to Amazon and was making more money and everyone knows the more you make the more you enjoy what you do.
I have been block from Amazon since Monday, and since then a buyer would like to return an item because they change their mind. What am I to do? Amazon is in control of my money. I believe the only solution to this would be a better site, better then Amazon, pulling Amazon customers and sellers away from them and joining someone new. If we all band together and pull some of our customers with us, place ads to drive lots of traffic to our web site it may work. Right now I am trying iOffer.com, Craig's List ,and vstore.ca . If you would like to add to this list or know of a better one please respond. | | |
AMAZON EMAIL ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS
E-mail address and the fax numbers seem to go on- and off-line with some regularity. Readers have also had luck with the following addresses:
resolution@amazon.com
charge-inquiries@amazon.com
jeff@amazon.com
(This last e-mail address sends back an note from Amazon that using it won't help you. There may be nobody reading the e-mail that comes to this address.)
Amazon's rebate center: 1-866-348-2492
Amazon Corporate Accounts:1-866-486-2360
Snail mail to customer service
Amazon.com, Inc.
Customer Service
PO Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
Service for Amazon Sellers
877-251-0696
They also have special e-mail accounts for spoofing and abuse:
stop-spoofing@amazon.com
reports@amazon.com
(This information was provided by a reader! Thanks!)
Canadian Customer Service
Phone 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific: (877)-586-3230
Corporate Offices, Seattle
New! Fax for Amazon's legal Department: 206-266-7010
UK Customer Service
Phone: +44.208.636.9200
More UK numbers, from a reader:
Freephone (only from within the UK): 0800 279 6620
Phone (outside the UK): +44 20 8636 9451
Phone (outside the UK): +44 20 8636 9451
Fax (free from within the UK): 0800 279 6630
Fax (outside the UK): +44 20 8636 9401someone who contacted me verified the number need to dial it this way: 0011 1 206 266-2992.Amazon.com Headquarters
Address: 1200 12th Ave., Ste. 1200
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: (206) 266-1000
Fax: (206) 622-2405
Info e-mail: in@amazon.com is no longer a working e-mail address.
(Amazon's CEO is Jeff Bezos, if you want a name to put on an e-mail or fax to this office.)
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On October 1, 2007 Amazon is rolling out a new program that will require all merchants in the Health and Beauty category to upload products based entirely on a UPC Code. What will they do with this information? Ah, here is their great idea. They will be consolidating every store that sells the same item into one listing.
Pay attention, merchants. Here's what it means to you:
1. They will be consolidating all product description copy. That means, your investment in copywriters, and in communication that differentiates you as a merchant with (1) special services, (2) additional customer service, (3) unique return policies, etc..... will benefit all the other stores who sell the same item. Amazon.com has decided that they do not need to respect copy ownership, and that they "own" your copy.
2. Price will be displayed from multiple sellers, and will include shipping. This means (again) -- that the merchant who has the best copy will help to sell the product, and the rest of the merchants will benefit. And the merchant who decides to compete on price alone will win the sale. So, there is no longer an incentive to create compelling copy, complete information, or good branding. You can simply sit back, wait for the other merchant to do the marketing work, and price your product lower than everyone else.
This system will benefit no one but Amazon.com and the consumer - in the short term. Long term, it will have a devastating effect on their bottom line. This is because they will create a system where sellers who specialize in added services such as 24-hour shipping, CRS responses, extra product support, etc. - will eventually replace their Amazon income through other channels - leaving in place the low-cost providers, who will sell on razor thin margins that leave no room for any other kind of service or support to the customer.
This is just the latest of a long line of Amazon decisions that have left us as merchants scratching our heads. We are quite certain there is no one in charge at Amazon who has a clue about marketing, branding, retailing, or customer service. To wit, just a few of the other odd policies already in place at Amazon:
1. Charging the merchant a commission on shipping and handling. These are real, out of pocket expenses for the merchant.
2. Allowing competing merchants to lift our copy verbatim in order to sell the same product. We complained for 4 months with no reply, and it took as long for the offending merchant's copy to change. However, the offending merchant was not banned from Amazon or penalized in any other noticeable way.
3. When asked for the contact on our account to speak to, we were told we would be unable to speak to that person and would have to communicate to a generic email address at Amazon.com - so this decision is obviously so controversial that the braintrust don't want to hear any more complaints from sellers.
The short-sightedness of Amazon's business decisions seems to indicate a desperation to drive revenues in any way possible. That, or Bezos is breathing too much of Microsoft's exhaust fumes and believing that arrogance will never come back to hurt them.
Time to sell the stock, if you haven't already done so. And time to invest that 20% commission in your own SEO and get out of the Amazon labyrinth.
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ANY EX-AMAZON WANT TO TRY
ePier.com | | |
Has anyone else noticed this problem? I was just looking for a book and Did a search for it in firefox, using the integrated Amazon search engine, right? And I had amazon's web page up in one firefox window. Then I opened another window. I was researching something in the new window, and I opened a new tab. When I did, the Amazon window popped up in front of it. Each time I tried to open a new tab in the other window this happened. The other window that I had Amazon's web page loaded in would keep popping up in front of my new window. So, it was two separate firefox windows: one had the amazon page loaded, and the other didn't. Any time I tried opening a new tab in the other (without amazon), the Amazon page pop in front instead, in front of the new tab I opened.
I thought It might be firefox acting weird, but I tried the same thing using two firefox windows and loading other websites into them, and with the other websites loaded, this didn't happen. Then I tried it again with Amazon loaded into one again and it did. Each time I tried to opnen a new tab for something in the window that did not have amazon loaded into it, the window that did have it loaded would pop in front of it.
So, this is just the last straw for me, which was a long time in coming. I hate amazon. I've written them many complaints in the past, and maybe after a year or two after complaining I'd buy something from them again, but I won't even use their search engine anymore, and I'll buy someplace else. If what everyone on this board says is true, I can't support that treatment of people. I've experienced similar treatment in the past myself. What I've learned from the internet, and other places, is that when companies have to resort to those kinds of tactics, then you can be sure they aren't on the level. They can't be trusted and you will be sorry dealing with them.
As far as I can tell, they are a bunch of dicks there at Amazon. That's all they are. Doing business at amazon IS eating a "bag of dicks". It's taking it. And no I don't have to do that. No one does. | | |
| Amazon.co.uk is the same scam they closed my account for no reason and kept my sales of £4451 pounds for goods I had sent out. They are sharks they will close you down if you get too big or if you sell more items then they do. Class action needed world wide. Avoid Amascam | | |
| your not the only ones in UK they do the same the bastards closed my account for no reason and now are holding £2000, the thing i dont get is they refunded a guy without my permission and till this day i dont have the item how the hell can they do that? i really dont no what to do? | | |
any lawyers or media persons looking to investigate this scam please contact me at stephen.har864@onetel.com may I ask that we all decide on say the 1st october to e mail this blogg and our story to the media sky news cnn fox and to a stipulated law firm here and in America to try to get something back. I look forward to more posts with an eye for a way forward against amazon.con.
Can all those trading on amazon.co.uk please tell thier stories here. | | |
Amazon is playing games. If you make petty sales then they leave you alone as soon as you make a couple of mediocre sales they send you a policy warning sayng it came to our attention that you may be selling bootlegs.
what a scam i sold 2 items in a month that were store purchased watched and sold used Give me a break. They do not want you to sell. the marketplace selling is a front so they can launder money.Think about it..read all the postings from sellers that lost their money | | |
| don't post to many secretshere! amazon is watching this page and gathering every information to can more sellers | | |
| Their A-to-Z guarantee claim system is a joke. You can bet that EVERY SINGLE claim will result in a refund to the customer, at your expense. Doesn't matter if you have tracking to show proof of shipment. They don't even bother to read the seller's side of things. | | |
| nobody here can spell. Their has a different meaning to There. Look it up in the dictionary!!!! | | |
Seams like amazon is trying to squash sellers before the holiday season!! If they get rid of the third party selling then amazon will fall!! third party keeps them alive.
What the hell is this?
I think they are contaidicting themselves !! First it says to fax tracking # to expedite the process(BULLSHIT).
Then it says we may still need to hold your money !
while we review the account.. Review what you have the tracking numbers that show delivered so give me my money !! what are they reviewing the hair on bezos ass!!
We are currently reviewing your Amazon Selling Account. We will
respond to your inquiry in approximately 5 business days.
While we review your Account, your funds will be reserved in your
Amazon.com Payments account for up to 45 days. Although we will delay
the transfer of funds to your bank account, we will continue
accepting orders for items you list for sale on Amazon.com. Once
your funds have been released, you will be notified via email, and
funds should arrive in your bank account within 5 business days.
You may be able to expedite this review by providing any of the
following information if you haven't already:
While tracking and/or sales information may help expedite the review,
it may still be necessary to wait the full review period before
funds can be released. Reviews are typically completed within 30
days, but may take up to 45 days.
amazon are just like the scammers stealing sellers money .. | | |
| the thing i dont get is why are they doing this? what are they getting from it? i really hope this problem gets sorted quickly and also whenever i open a new account a they block the seller part, how do they know? and how can i prevent this. | | |
| by the way who can we contact for free legal advice in the uk? as trading standards and citizen advice bureau dont help as they class this to be a trader issue. | | |
| Yeah we are a major player on amazon .they screw with everyone.They are holding thousands of dollars of our money also. We will be ripping them off soon and they do not know it . | | |
amazon is laundering money by holding sellers funds to make interest on their accounts. Also why cant we leave feedback for amazon transactions! what if the item is delayed or out of stock and they do not present this to you before your order.why cant we leave them neg feed back.
This is one sided selling all in their favor !! they SUUUUUUUCK | | |
| Amazon is watching this site and watching your ip so be careful ... if this site says hacked then use an anonimizer to access it. | | |
| some one hacked the site so they dont want any one to know the truth about AMAZON!!!!!!! | | |
| well people should know so far i think they must have lost form the people i know who shop with them and me about over £10,000. i advise you all to do the same tell people not to buy from the crooks who steal your money and broad daylight. | | |
Hi!
this is ridiculous, can somebody step up and do something,they are stilling from us in a day light, and we dont what the authority are doing about it. For me the USA is a country of right but i dont see any in this case. It's look like nobody want to take any action against them. i think this web site should have been shut down long time ago. | | |
i WAS angry @ Amazon, found this place, read a lot, and was scared. They did a review of my account. I decided to wait it out, no emails, no nagging the reviewers.
i waited 41 days, sent a polite email saying that I had complied, had allowed them the time, and had aided them with shipping numbers. Within 5 hours I had a reply that my funds were no longer held up, and they are disbursing my money today.
Good luck to the rest of you. Just wanted to throw some hope into this blog.. I was pissed too for 41 days.
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This relates to the world of Amazon.com and sales
a) Amazon contracts with manufacturer and sells their products. They undercut MAP pricing
Some facts
- Each of these vendors pays amazon $39 to $59/month, and also pays 7% of each sale to amazon
- $39 gets you the ability to list your products
- $59 gets you the ability to list your products and also press a button and amazon creates a website for you using the product data
- The $59 + 7% covers transaction charges and infrastructure charges
- Vendor still pays for shipping
- Each vendor, at time of entry enters product data, dimensions, tech info, features, UPC etc etc, Amazon takes that data and aggregates it / merges it so that all folks listing under that product get the benefit/shortcoming of sharing product data.
SO
- lazy vendors get the benefit of the other vendors expense in copyright etc
- go to vendors, who spend money on copyrighting, basically give that intellectual property to Amazon to share, thereby diminishing their own value/uniqueness
- Amazon builds a repository of best of breed product data at the expense of all its contributing resellers
- Amazon Analyzes which products sell best, and the prices that these products sell for, and continually adjust their prices to ensure they are cheaper than ANY of their "partners"
BOTTOM LINE
- Like lemmings we as vendors contribute to our own demise by subscribing to Amazon as resellers.
- If manufacturers do not stop Amazon from dropping below MAP, they not only empower Amazon, but they also contribute to the death of their own channel as they have given up their intellectual capital
and also continue to drive price down.
- By observing MAP resellers price themselves out of the business
END GAME
- Amazon will offer the products at prices below MAP, at any level they choose, and their website will have more comprehensive product data than any other vendor so they are perceived ast the de facto product exprts, your resellers will not be able to compete as they will contribute 8 to 20% of their NETT margins to Amazon for the privilege of selling products.
WHAT TO DO
- Be brave in the new word of ecommerce
- Prohibit Amazon from selling your products
- Bar them from using using your copyright trademark
- Prohibit your retailers , in their reseller agreements from selling on Amazon
- Save your reseller channel from destruction
- Have the courage to enforce this. | | |
Amazon took my 2000 dollars.
When i contacted them they congratulated me for stealing my money.
Pure evil.
If they were in front of me, I would whip their ass. I get the feeling of yuppies working there that were bullied in high school and now behind the internet wall they exersize their first chance at power. These people wont last much longer.
They are evil people. What comes around goes around. I contacted a law firm for a class action.
Man all these people with the same story and they are still in business.
I could go on a long time about these thiefs but I wont
Tracy Varnon
Another Amazon victim. | | |
| You guys need to stop this emotional ranting. Stop using amazon. Everyone wants to make a buck. Including Amazon. Best way to complain is vote with your feet ...... RUN ....warn the others !! | | |
AMAZON.com has a tight noose on TARGET.COM
Tried to purchase an item from Target.com.
NOT sure who owns who amazon or target but my order was declined from them. called my bank and they have no such transaction !So amazon is in cahoots with target.com.. I used to sell on amazon many years ago but like all of you I was a victim of circumstance . booted by the a to z bullshit policy.
So now if any seller purchases from target .com
they will most likely be turned down . Amazon is running foul!!
Also caiman.com and any other caiman that is selling on amazon are connected . I tried to order from them and was odd that every item that they had shipping delays on was the same shipping delay time as amazons for those items . | | |
>- Each of these vendors pays amazon $39 to $59/month, and also pays 7% of each sale to amazon
Depending on what you sell, it could be 15%, and they also take 15% of your shipping costs too.
If a lying buyer files a claim against you, amazon will be sure to refund them all their money, even if you can show proof of shipment. Then, if tracking shows order was actually delivered, their policy is, only the buyer can reverse the claim. The buyer has to contact them that they got the package and agree to be charged again. Your proof of delivery means zip. Yeah, like that is going to happen, right? You know the buyer is going to enjoy their free present at your expense. Their a to z claims department is staffed by a bunch of inbred monkeys. | | |
Amazon is so unfair, I think we all users should join and protest. Is not fair that our books don`t sell because one user don`t like it. I sell many books until one person put a bad comment. One person from 100 is not that unfair?
The worst part, the users that like it don`t leave any coment just the one who hate it. | | |
| so many of us have had problems with them and there must be many more and this still happens there must be a way to put this rite. | | |
I think their is something strange going on on amazon.com!
Feedback is looking strange. I was a seller on amazon and sold about 60 items lets say in 1 month. now out of the 60 i received 0 feedbacks even after requesting it..now how do these large selleres get at least 30 feedbacks in one day!! I cant even get 1 in 1 month.
i think it is set up so that they get all the sales and amazon is padding their feedback. strange not one disgruntle buyer.. all 5 stars? makes you think. out of all the sales they have everyone is a 5 star rating. amazon is not good to small sellers..check out the large sellers feedbacks.. | | |
| The feedback system is unfair. I am a seller at Amazon with over 90% positive rating. I can say that most of the negative feedbacks are unfair. For example, a customer gave me a bad feedback because he wants to cancel his order even after it was already shipped. Now I wait at least 12 hours before I ship new orders to reduce negative feedbacks. I have a competitor with 100% positive of over 140 feedbacks. Early this week he got a negative feedback because he shipped a used product instead of a new. Today the feedback was removed. It seems to be he tried all tricks including $$$ to remove the negative feedback. How can you say a system like that is fair. | | |
Amazon's shipping blows.
They give you a $3 credit. I had to ship something big from the east coast to the west coast and it cost $18. I bitched to customer service and they basically told me to eat a bag of dicks. | | |
| Amazon is a declining market for small sellers....in fact I think is is a declining market for larger sellers. Unless you get approved to sell the big stuff. And if you sell enough, your feedback rating does not matter......Smaller sellers beware....your's matters. | | |
What else can we do besides quit selling on Amazon? Can we joint together and make a stand instead of all this complaining? Is anyone willing to create a website for donation to receive enough money and sue Amazon?
All we're doing on this website is complaining. It's time we make a stand? | | |
| I'm so glad I read the comments posted on this site. We were considering starting to sell our N Scale Trains and Locomotives (www.NewhallStation.com) on Amazon.com but after reading so many horror stories from other sellers and seeing how badly Amazon treats its sellers we will pass. | | |
| Amazon has about 2k of my money. They suspended my account for poor performance (94% positive feedback, 5.1% refunds, 1.28% A-Z claims) Ratings were improving, but they didnt care. Anyways, that was the beginning of July. They said I would get my money back after about 90 days, its been over 100 days and I have not seen a dime! This seems excessive (to hold money this long) seems a lawsuit could be filed, if there are any class-actions going on or anybody who wants to start one I would be wiling to participate--please contact me. I would like to see this excessive holding time stopped. | | |
| I was wondering if anyone knows of any class action law suits with Amazon. Their Alliance program is like the Gestapo and I am in need of some advice on how to deal with them. They suspended my sellers account and although I recently had a few problems that were easily fixed, I have been a great seller. I always have gone above and beyond to my buyers and have never skimped on packaging or upgrading shipping and other misc. just to |
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