Comments on: My Amazon Seller Central Rant

By: Dave Dirickson

Dave Dirickson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:35:00 +0000

Update!!! They dispersed my funds about an hour and a half after I sent my appeal mentioning the violation of their own policies and reporting them to the attorney general. If there are any actual people working in Seller Central they are all useless. My advice, DO NOT SELL ON AMAZON. And if you do, Definately dont give them your source of inventory. They’ll just cancel your account and move in on your resources.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:06:19 +0000

Has the Washington AG responded to anyone here that has made complaints? I would think that they would be obligated to investigate this (at a minimum).

By: Dave Dirickson

Dave Dirickson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:38:07 +0000

32 ays ago my amazon funds were reserved….I’ve emailed them twice asking for specific reasons for my review but have only received the standard canned response.

After reading all of these posts I feel even more frustrated as I now understand they couldnt care less about the seller’s experience.

What happened to “Sign up, Sell, Ship, Get Paid!!” If it said, “sign up, sell, have perfect feedback and a five star rating, get reviewed, have your funds held for no reason with no recourse…” I wouldnt have started selling there!!!!

What they are doing is definately not ethical or honest.

I emailed them again today asking for dispursement of funds and letting them know I’ve contacted the Washington State Attorney Generals Office.

Then I deleted my sales listings.
I will not sell there again.

Dave, (dubbled4pres) on amazon and ebay

By: Randy Strong

Randy Strong — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:54:45 +0000

same person Tony?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-blankley/is-our-government-really_b_474743.html

By: Tony Blankley

Tony Blankley — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:24:11 +0000

I became so fed up with Amazon’s comically pathetic customer service that I some years ago started a twitter account solely to inform as many millions of people that I could about this preposterous company’s pathetic customer communication responses. This all began when I was literally signed up for and billed for the company’s one-click purchasing system without my knowledge and consent. It was impossible to get anyone on the telephone and complaints by email were responded to with “canned responses” that provided non-answers to questions that I had not asked. When I used emphatic and angry language in replying to the fourth canned response I finally got someone on the telephone that literally had no ability to do anything other than type in keywords I spoke into his computer and rotely recite what his computer told him to say — similar non-answers, it was like talking to a malfunctioning robot. The operator’s incompetence — or more accurately Amazon’s systemic decision to put de minimis resources into customer service — was so unbelievable I didn’t know whether to curse, cry, or laugh. I was able to resist my strong temptation not to do the former, since I try to keep in mind that the person on the end of the phone is as much a victim of Jeff Bezos’s corporate cruelty and indifference as are the customers of this pathetic company. I am happy to say that so far I have received over 100 responses from persons with similar experiences, most of whom have agreed to boycott the company and more importantly to spread the word and exponentially increase the population of those who have committed themselves to using every interpersonal interation and internet forum and opportunity to encourage that everyone with earshot and e-shot not only boycott Amazon but return any already purchased items they can return within the compnay’s return policy parameters. It is our stated goal to continue indefinitely with our so far amazingly successful efforts, all conducted within the bounds of civil law regarding interference with business relationships, to decrease the revenue of this company from customers within the Seattle area and beyond and hopefully have a dramatic negative effect on the compnay’s profits. With the ease of twitter and other electronic communications, and — ironically – the use of one-key-touch twitters, instant messages, and the like, to maintain this effort for decades until Amazon dies a whimpering death on the ash heap of history.

By: faith

faith — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:08:19 +0000

writing? WRITE ur congress?

omg u r so naive. words will

continue to do NOTHING. !

it’s action we need to do

SomeThing, NOT say

anymore. nOthing

left to say.

By: faith

faith — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:06:35 +0000

hey guys,

this is just a SMALL segment of the police state we are heading for, if we don’t DO SOMETHING. if we let it happen, then it WILL happen.

haven’t u guys watched Zeitgeist and Annendum?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:07:41 +0000

PS: Write to your congress too.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:07:05 +0000

Look at the Supreme Court’s recent action. It is clear that big corporations OWN our country.

Take this far and wide via every social media site that you can. Try to get a valid business reporter to cover the story – try Mother Jones, Rolling Stone or any other more alternative media.

Keep pushing. I know that they are. I saw it firsthand as both an amazon seller and an ebay seller.

By: Oswald

Oswald — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:14:28 +0000

We sold on Amazon for more than 5 years literally thousands of transactions per month. We are 100% positive that Amazon defrauded us as a merchant. We were shipping so much with Amazon that we used FBA which was nothing short of a disaster. NEW PRODUCT was deemed “damaged” and we are positive that they subsequently sold the items through the system. They were unable to account for tens of thousands of dollars worth of inventory. On top of that, Amazon charged consumers for orders despite the fact that we did not upload a tracking number verifying the shipment. Please spread the word using TWITTER and any other viral system that Amazon is conducting systematic FRAUD. Do not be so naive to think that such a large public company would stoop to such lows THEY ARE.