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Small business owners say Amazon is selling their products without permission (www.newschannel5.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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"I typed in YamzWorld into the Amazon app and lo and behold there were all my products there with my pictures from my website as well," Montes-Tarazas said.

While he receives payment for sales, Montes-Tarazas said the arrangement strips away his ability to build direct customer relationships.

"I do get the sale and I do get the money, but customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for," Montes-Tarazas said.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Try eBay. You're much more likely to find a small business selling whatever widget you need.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Ebay is owned by paypal and do the same shenanigans. I highly recommend to avoid ebay as well. Use these places so you can go direct to the artist or product provider if you can.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ebay is a tricky one for me. I'm an electrician that services a lot of very old equipment, and sometimes eBay is the only place I can find oddball parts for a piece of switchgear that's 100 years old.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, sometimes it can't be helped. I should have said avoid as much as possible.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

eBay owned PayPal at one point, but both companies today are independent and separate from one another.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It looks like you're right, they're both public companies now. Still, both are completely evil and use the same practices.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, eBay as a seller is just terrible. They have totally capitulated towards the large volume Chinese crapola sellers and require that you pay them for permission to list on their site or else they'll bury your listing.

It makes it very difficult to buy from another human being instead of some company that's using eBay as a storefront.

And because they are using AI to, okay, not LLM AI, but machine learning AI, to tell the sellers what the prices of their products should be listed at, they are inflating the cost of every single item you can find on eBay.

They are doing this on the one hand so the sellers get more money, but on the other hand so that they get more money for their listing fees and percentage of the final sales price.

They're basically realpage, but for person-to-person sales.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 4 hours ago

Most of that stuff is just drop shipped from alibaba anyways. Etsy is lousy with it too.