#238: Our reaction to some very scary Amazon news
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There's been some news lately from the world's largest selling platform that is making many sellers nervous." That opening sentence has been the topic of about 10,000 articles over the past 20 years. For the longest time it was eBay as the target of concern, and now it's Amazon. Today I address the most recent "scary" article and the concerns being raised there. Better yet, I tell you exactly how to THRIVE in spite of any changes that are coming! Show notes at https://SilentJim.com/podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back, silent sales machine radio coming at you live from my office with dogs barking and kids, probably running up and down the hallway goofing off. |
| 0:12.9 | Teens being teens around here these days. It used to be little kids screaming and bruising their knees and running into things and spilling things. And now |
| 0:23.4 | it's teenagers hitting each other with pillows and calling each other goofy names and playing |
| 0:28.3 | video games. But that's the background noise provided to you courtesy of the Cochrome household today. |
| 0:33.9 | If you happen to hear any of that action, and as I'm recording this on a beautiful |
| 0:38.4 | Saturday afternoon, actually, because I like to work six days whenever possible, and then save |
| 0:44.6 | that seventh day as the Lord's Day and kind of take a day off. That's the biblical model. But, |
| 0:50.6 | hey, it's a Saturday. It's a beautiful day. And I just came across an article. It's actually been posted a couple times in our Facebook group and generated a fair amount of fairly |
| 1:01.0 | predictable chatter. And the title of the article, let me pull it up here just so I get it right, |
| 1:07.7 | new Amazon policy devastates thousands of sellers. Well, let me tell you a story |
| 1:16.1 | before we dive into that article in my take on it. Once upon a time, there was a platform that was |
| 1:22.2 | launched and tens of thousands and soon hundreds of thousands and soon millions of people gathered there |
| 1:29.0 | to buy and sell things. And it was all going great until rules had to be introduced and changes |
| 1:36.4 | started happening and all the scammers showed up. And suddenly the platform had to write some |
| 1:42.5 | rules that the sellers didn't necessarily like in order to protect the buyers. |
| 1:48.2 | And pretty soon even some of those sellers were getting suspended and losing their accounts. |
| 1:52.1 | It was tragic, really. |
| 1:53.8 | Some of them had built really incredible businesses. |
| 1:56.6 | And it was sad to see. |
| 1:59.0 | Some of them get shut down and scramble to find alternative ways to make |
| 2:03.7 | money using the internet, the skills they'd provided. You might be thinking I'm talking about Amazon. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm not. I'm talking about eBay. I'm talking about 15 years ago on eBay, actually. See, |
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