<story><title>“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”</title><url>https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>55555</author><text>This basically happens for a good reason. Basically, the potential scam is to sign up to a marketplace and list very popular products at lower prices than everyone else. Then ship empty packages or boxes full of rocks. The marketplace will pay you every few days, and if you are &amp;quot;shipping internationally&amp;quot; they won&amp;#x27;t figure it out for a few weeks. So trust is gained slowly.&lt;p&gt;The real takeaway here is that this guy pays $5,000 USD per month to get a support rep on a platform he sells a million dollars a month worth of goods on, of which it already takes a decent percent, and the support rep can&amp;#x27;t even talk to anyone with any power. This is the dark side of monopolies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanwillis</author><text>Surely the scam doesn&amp;#x27;t last since 2013. Stop making excuses for Amazon, this isn&amp;#x27;t acceptable given the circumstances.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no scam going on here and bringing it up is just a way to take blame away from Amazon and for what end?</text></comment>
<story><title>“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”</title><url>https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>55555</author><text>This basically happens for a good reason. Basically, the potential scam is to sign up to a marketplace and list very popular products at lower prices than everyone else. Then ship empty packages or boxes full of rocks. The marketplace will pay you every few days, and if you are &amp;quot;shipping internationally&amp;quot; they won&amp;#x27;t figure it out for a few weeks. So trust is gained slowly.&lt;p&gt;The real takeaway here is that this guy pays $5,000 USD per month to get a support rep on a platform he sells a million dollars a month worth of goods on, of which it already takes a decent percent, and the support rep can&amp;#x27;t even talk to anyone with any power. This is the dark side of monopolies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>&amp;gt; This is the dark side of monopolies.&lt;p&gt;Tech monopolies are particularly good at it, online support tickets and &amp;quot;community&amp;quot; forums are fantastic decoys for real support.</text></comment>