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I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.

Creatures in the ecommerce world - a pissed off Amazon shopper. If I wanted to sell stuff on Amazon, I’d have asked to set up an Amazon shop. I didn’t. The fact that Amazon feels like it has a right to our products without our input feels so violating.

This feels exactly like those restaurants who found out they were listed on all kinds of delivery websites without their knowledge. Their customers invariably got terrible deals and service, and thought it was the restaurant's fault.

EXACTLY THAT.

Adding to this: we have spent the better part of two decades building Monkey Minion. Without Amazon. I don’t know if it’s paternalism, entitlement or something worse that makes Amazon think this is a good idea, but it’s not. I opted not to list our products on Amazon a long time ago. I could have

decided to go through their ridiculous process and ship our stuff to their warehouses and open a store there. I didn’t. Because I didn’t need or want to. Our customers can find us without Amazon. And frankly, with all the garbage big tech keeps doing,

This is so insidious, this is basically a megacorp that's engaging in drop shipping behavior and trying to take a cut from small businesses Surely this is grounds for a lawsuit right???? How is this not illegal

I’ve been seeing this happening to a lot of artists with Shopify shops. Supposedly you can opt out by emailing branddirect@amazon.com but no confirmation if it works or not.

It actively listed a sold out item for me

Fuckers.