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Small business owners say Amazon is selling their products without permission (www.newschannel5.com)

submitted 1 day ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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"I typed in YamzWorld into the Amazon app and lo and behold there were all my products there with my pictures from my website as well," Montes-Tarazas said.

While he receives payment for sales, Montes-Tarazas said the arrangement strips away his ability to build direct customer relationships.

"I do get the sale and I do get the money, but customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for," Montes-Tarazas said.

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[–] evidences@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Amazon has been drop shipping like this for a while, my neighbor bought 5 gallons of driveway sealer on Amazon pre pandemic and it shipped from a Home Depot. Seller listed as Amazon no indication of coming from a home depot at all until he got a tracking number for a location in Kentucky.

The weird part was it was the same cost as the Home Depot website so if it was just drop shipping with no backend deal it Amazon didn't make any money from it.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're probably testing the AI, I'm sure they'll make money at some point. He's used to doing the long haul game.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The ultimate goal is for Amazon Retail to become infrastructure. Bezos and his minions don't want people to think of Amazon Retail as a shop; they want people to think of Amazon Retail as The Thing You Use To Buy Physical Things On The Internet. As Steam is to PC games, so Amazon want to be to physical things.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

Exactly.

They want "Amazon" to become a verb like "Google".