See, that’s the most frustrating part: It hasn’t always been a sewer for Sellers. It hasn’t always been bot-driven and criminal-friendly.
At some point, any sales channel where 3P Sellers are responsible for 60% of sales has to realize that you can delight the customer and offer Sellers a fair shake.
And it’s not “bashing” or “whining” for legitimate Sellers (like @ASV_Vites) to point out actual problems and concerns, in a good faith effort for those to be remedied, clarified, and/or consistently addressed.
Not that that’s what usually populates the NSFE, but some folks seem so jaded by the repetitive nonsense over there that they think that any critique of Amazon is a personally offensive sacrilege.
Honestly, Amazon has too many fingers in too many pies–but not enough brains to see that as the problem it is. Jassy repeatedly complaining to CNBC about the iRoomba deal feels like the sleazy car salesman complaining that you didn’t let him sell you a lemon, but it sure made clear that the 3P Marketplaces are nowhere even near their focus anymore.