I just got this email from Amazon Lending
Share your insights on Amazon Lending Attending the Accelerate Conference? Amazon Lending would love to learn more about your experience as a Seller.
Complete this short survey (~2 minutes) and share the email you used to complete the survey at the Amazon Lending booth to claim a Monopoly board game or other game of your choosing.
Ask Amazon 3PS to take their survey about Amazon loans and go the Amazon convention get Monopoly the board game…
Monopoly customized for Amazon:
Other games:
RISK with custom pieces: Infantry (Smile Van), Cavalry (Smile Semi), Artillery (Blue Origin Rocket)
Sorry (just kidding, this won’t be available)
There are no Community Chest cards, only Chance cards for Sellers with things like
The suspense…
Look closer, my friend.
There ARE Seller Community Chest Cards.
They all state (vaguely), in some of the finest print imaginable, “Payable to Amazon.”
… well at least there is a ball and chain token for me to move around
In all seriousness, this could be a successful product (in college, we made a Monopoly clone about our fraternity; my favorite card was “Loan Lenny Money, Lose $200.” The game got played a lot.). Potential names for the game could be “Ecommerce,” “Seller Sanity,” or “Da’ Nile” (plays off of both the Amazon River and the denial sellers experience thinking that things will improve).
Seconded.
On the board’s four most-cardinal points, where the railroads appear in most of the original game’s later iterations, I’d propose using “FBA,” “AGL,” “AWD,” & “GWD.”
To reflect reality, I’d also propose that landing on one of those spots immediately imposes the possibility of suffering an unexpected financial loss, and the added burden of perhaps spending multiple turns `round the board trying to prove that you’re correctly asserting you yourself aren’t to blame, and that Denial is a river in Egypt.