Comment Re:So what about all the other fake reviews? (Score 1) 34
Amazon's response to the articles this week is all smoke and mirrors. They may have the systems in place to catch these people, but they selectively enforce their own rules. They have known about all of this stuff for years and it gets reported to them every day. The fact that they are doing a thing about any of it is because congressional regulators are watching. I have personal experience dealing with Amazon Us about this among other things and they do not care and rarely do a thing. Amazon is the biggest data mining company in the world.. For them to have these types of issues is 1000% unacceptable when they have the historical data to keep it from happening. Their general modus operandi is to change their rules just enough to cloud their own guilt. They added the ability to add ratings to reviews earlier this year making wild swings in review counts explainable. One of their own products went from 4k reviews in January to 104k reviews now.
The thing is nobody has held them accountable, in fact, the opposite is true, they've been allowed to hold themselves above the law. Name one other company that somehow got out of paying royalties for selling music? Earlier this year Amazon turned seller in to state district attorney's for price-fixing during COVID. Amazon itself is the one doing the pricer fixing with it's price parity rules and the majority of those cases were thrown out.
Right now Amazon is setting themselves up for the landslide profit in q4 this year at the expense of sellers. They have told sellers that they can only send in limited quantities because Amazon needs to focus on items that don't sit on the shelves. This forces sellers to lose the prime badge which will cost them more money to sell and move the burden of the shipping expense from amazon to them. This year has seen more failed sellers than ever before due to zero planning for a worst-case scenario like COVID. This is the slowest time of the year and Amazon is out of shelve space? Jeff Bezos plays the whole world for fools as he laughs in everyone's face. Amazon has had a bad year, for the most part, this year. What CEO wouldn't be sitting there saying we are coming into the best season. We make more on our products and need to kill it in q4. Cut these large expenses by putting it off on the sellers and oh by the way, we will benefit the most, lucky us.
The biggest threat to Amazon, is Amazon themselves, not Shopify, Walmart, or anyone else. Amazon has been allowed to create too wide of a gap for itself and has been allowed to gain influence in too many shoulder sectors that it can use to bring additional pressure against competitors. Sellers cannot do a thing or they risk their livelihoods. Amazon employee surveillance means employees cant say a word. Amazon has consumers hoodwinked. They are the largest single advertiser for most major media outlets in the US and they own their own little propaganda machine The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos is brilliant, you cannot take that away from him. But his brilliance has led him to become a typical sociopathic CEO that thinks he knows what is best for everyone including our elected officials. Amazon's accomplishments have changed our world forever. A lot of great new things have become common because of them. But they have been allowed to weave themselves so deep into the fabric of our lives, whether we want it or not, they have the ability to cause far too much havoc with the systems that they have affecting communications, transportation, food supply etc.. on a nation. Our politicians have failed us by failing to act when they had a chance and should have!
The thing is nobody has held them accountable, in fact, the opposite is true, they've been allowed to hold themselves above the law. Name one other company that somehow got out of paying royalties for selling music? Earlier this year Amazon turned seller in to state district attorney's for price-fixing during COVID. Amazon itself is the one doing the pricer fixing with it's price parity rules and the majority of those cases were thrown out.
Right now Amazon is setting themselves up for the landslide profit in q4 this year at the expense of sellers. They have told sellers that they can only send in limited quantities because Amazon needs to focus on items that don't sit on the shelves. This forces sellers to lose the prime badge which will cost them more money to sell and move the burden of the shipping expense from amazon to them. This year has seen more failed sellers than ever before due to zero planning for a worst-case scenario like COVID. This is the slowest time of the year and Amazon is out of shelve space? Jeff Bezos plays the whole world for fools as he laughs in everyone's face. Amazon has had a bad year, for the most part, this year. What CEO wouldn't be sitting there saying we are coming into the best season. We make more on our products and need to kill it in q4. Cut these large expenses by putting it off on the sellers and oh by the way, we will benefit the most, lucky us.
The biggest threat to Amazon, is Amazon themselves, not Shopify, Walmart, or anyone else. Amazon has been allowed to create too wide of a gap for itself and has been allowed to gain influence in too many shoulder sectors that it can use to bring additional pressure against competitors. Sellers cannot do a thing or they risk their livelihoods. Amazon employee surveillance means employees cant say a word. Amazon has consumers hoodwinked. They are the largest single advertiser for most major media outlets in the US and they own their own little propaganda machine The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos is brilliant, you cannot take that away from him. But his brilliance has led him to become a typical sociopathic CEO that thinks he knows what is best for everyone including our elected officials. Amazon's accomplishments have changed our world forever. A lot of great new things have become common because of them. But they have been allowed to weave themselves so deep into the fabric of our lives, whether we want it or not, they have the ability to cause far too much havoc with the systems that they have affecting communications, transportation, food supply etc.. on a nation. Our politicians have failed us by failing to act when they had a chance and should have!
