This isn't acceptable from a multi-national company with a $2 Trillion market cap.
The inability of Amazon to have real conversations or communicate to it's "selling partners" is inexcusable.
This is happening to multiple, long term, multi-million dollar a year sellers that support local jobs, local businesses, and most importantly support their own families.
The lack of transparency and the seeming ineptitude of inter-departmental communication makes it difficult for sellers to trust a platform that has grown on the backs of small and medium sized businesses across America.
This needs to be fixed before another platform takes the long tail from Amazon and, eventually, the traffic that it produces.
This likely could be largely remedied by forming a "Seller Partner Board of Advisors" across multiple disciplines in the Amazon space.
Retail arbitrage, online arbitrage, wholesale, and private label.
To help Amazon better communicate with the sellers on the platform while also being able to directly hear, at a high level, what concerns the community has.
There are hundreds of smart and capable sellers that would be helpful in a role like this to Amazon and would likely ensure a mutually profitable relationship well into the future if concerns are taken seriously and lines of direct communication are available.
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