I was looking at this new “deferred payment” nonsense, and I noticed one larger order for multiple units that was far older than the rest. Most were a week or less old. This one was nearly a month old.
The order was Amazon’s own FBA order, where they buy your product in the USA, and resell it in “other markets” to the occasional customer. It had been ordered with “overnight delivery”, but payment was still “deferred” with the excuse “Delivery Date Policy”.
Soooo, it looks to me like Amazon is riding my float for the “delivery” to customers in far-flung locations, and worse yet, ordering half a dozen units, and withholding payment on all of them because one has not yet been delivered to Amazon’s end-user customer. Nope, that’s forcing me to do something I did not sign up for. I sell ONLY in the USA, and in this case, I sold to Amazon itself, a US entity.
Why make a stink about this? Because it is yet another paper-cut, yet another way Amazon is forcing sellers to finance their often ill-advised attempts at “growth”. Yes, I could turn off all sales to overseas locations, but if a person wants to buy, I will not say no. But I do expect payment for sales, and Amazon does not have special customer terms for purchasing my products itself.
I did not sell anything in India or whatever, Amazon did. I booked a US sale, under the US terms, which does NOT include anything further than delivery to the “customer of record”, in this case, Amazon itself, who ordered “overnight delivery” via FBA.
Grrrrr… Hulk ANGRY! Hulk SMASH!!