# Business Insider | This entrepreneur says Amazon nearly destroyed his business. He still shops on it every week. 'It's crazy.'

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**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/business-insider-this-entrepreneur-says-amazon-nearly-destroyed-his-business-he-still-shops-on-it-every-week-its-crazy/7636 "2026-10-14T18:17:59Z")\
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“His company, Bed Scrunchie, generated about $4.5 million in 2024 and was on track for more, Nekhala said. However, Amazon deactivated its seller account just before the holidays that year, cutting off its biggest sales channel.”

The BI article is paywalled: [He Says Amazon Nearly Wrecked His Business; He Still Shops on It - Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/he-says-amazon-nearly-wrecked-bedscrunchie-business-still-shop-amazon-2026-10)

Other sources:

- [#smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #amazonsellers #ecommerce #marketplaceaccountability #bedscrunchie | Jack Nekhala](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jack-nekhala_smallbusiness-entrepreneurship-amazonsellers-activity-7506041456193716225-cMxM)
- [https://www.silive.com/news/2026/07/staten-island-company-that-made-millions-pushed-to-the-brink-by-amazon-issues.html](https://www.silive.com/news/2026/07/staten-island-company-that-made-millions-pushed-to-the-brink-by-amazon-issues.html)

By surprise, this one mentioned a certain Amazon fixer-felon…

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> _In 2020, federal prosecutors indicted six people for conspiring to pay over $100,000 in commercial bribes to Amazon employees and contractors in exchange for an unfair competitive advantage on the Amazon Marketplace._
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> _Following a 2023 guilty plea, federal prosecutors said in a statement that one of the scheme’s participants — Ephraim Rosenberg, of Brooklyn — funneled bribes through co-conspirators in India to obtain confidential information about third-party sellers and their Amazon suspensions._
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> _While Amazon acknowledged to Bloomberg that the type of scheme goes on, it downplayed the bad actors’ prevalence._