I am always concerned when I see News_Amazon post a discussion which has no corresponding News Headline announcement (which is a phenomenon I do not recall ever seeing before Q2 of this year), such as here:
Some may recall that I was rather vehemently vituperative about the GEI (‘Dogtamerese’ for Amazon’s “Global Expansion Initiative”) foibles long before the ‘sneak’ addition of the Amazon.com.br Global Marketplace to the NAmU (“North American Unified”)-assigned SoA (‘Amazonese’ for “Selling on Amazon” aka 3P Seller aka Seller Central) Accounts of many members of our Seller Community*.
Some may also be aware that I tend to pay close attention to trends on the Amazon front, archiving & classifying the data points in a way that enhances the ability to connect the dots, even when @ the first blush they might seem innocuous, or unrelated.
It has not proven particularly unusual over the last 4-5 years for complaints to arise about unexpected Global Selling connections in the 3 iterations of the ASF employed since 2012; I’ve long suspected that the majority of such problems were most-likely to prove self-inflicted wounds upon members of our Seller Community who didn’t read the fine print (and/or didn’t fully understand the implications of what they were doing).
Still, I’ve noticed a rather-sharp uptick, in recent months (over in the NSFE and in related discussion venues), of posts such as these, from 3P Sellers who’ve been around the block a time or two before:
An unheralded & unexpected development which caused much furor in our Seller Community, with repercussions still being felt down to this very day for some of us, of which the available evidences strongly suggests that SEAmod (Susan H) was rather instrumental in getting such rollouts nipped in the bud, back when she was in charge of the ASF…
Given the current uncertainty roiling in the eCommerce landscape as a result of tariff negotiations, methinks there’s a better-than-usual chance of 3P Sellers succumbing to Amazon’s seductive entreaties to engage in the GEI (“Global Expansion Initiative” in ‘Dogtamerese’, “Global Selling Program” in ‘Amazonese’) - calls to action which do appear to be ramping up rather sharply in B-SM missives from a variety of teams here in the spring of 2025.
That’s why I think it advisable to ‘bump’ this necro-thread - anyone considering alternative means of fortifying their bottom line along the export vector would do well to note what can happen when Amazon feels it has carte blanche, but winds up proving negligent in ensuring compliance, as in your infamous case some years back.