I’ve been selling on Amazon for 14 years. Built a huge business there. It helped fund my exit from corporate America, my re-entry to investment real estate, my lifestyle. But an alarming thing occurred around 2019. I saw A LOT more Chinese sellers popping up. And the crazy thing is, if you took even an hour to scroll through the seller forums Amazon had become rife with Trademark infringements being filed against US sellers. But the caveat was, many of the IP infringement takedowns were coming from a person outside of the US. Amazon would then take the claimants word as gold, destroy the US based sellers account and all of a sudden, a Chinese based seller would pop up on those listings. The US seller could not fight it and Amazon would not listen. A long standing seller, making their living on Amazon, shut down by a single Copyright infringement “claim”. Then to watch multiple OBVIOUS Chinese selling accounts pop up in their place…was not only common, but rampant. But the most insane thing was: Amazon didn’t care about the sellers in the US. They took fraudulent trademark claims as gold, destroying many third party US sellers in the process. The tariff impact on these Chinese sellers will be the “Chickens coming home to roost” for Amazon…and it will be glorious for all of those who suffered as a result of Amazon putting a fraudsters word above a mom and pop third party seller based in the US.

.@Amazon operates under a "guilty until proven innocent" model. Imagine if you were put in jail because someone ACCUSED you of a crime. Once you're put in jail you're allowed to appeal your accusation. You were never told what your crime was because that information is confidential. While you are blindly appealing this crime, the government seizes all of your assets and will not return them until you successfully appeal your crime. This is fine, you think to yourself. I didn't do anything wrong. Easy win. Your first appeal is denied. You aren't told why. "Confidential, better luck on the next one". Still in jail. Life savings still on hold. Mortgage payment still due. Kids hungry at home. You're allowed phone calls to a public defender, but they have no access to the details about your case. They barely speak your language, do not live in the same country as you, and have more incentive to get you off of the phone than to help get you out of jail. New appeal, more detail. Denied. Confidential. Better luck next time. Mortgage still due. Amazon is LITERALLY doing this to THOUSANDS of small businesses across the USA. How is an AMERICAN company allowed to treat AMERICAN small business owners like we're operating in communist USSR?