Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other
“These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.” Tweets: @literallyaking , @garrytan , @dtunkelang , @davidgaughran , @kevin2kelly , and @dcseifert Tweets: Alexander King / @literallyaking : this article is INCREDIBLE, absolute must read. A peek at a systems driven nightmare hidden from consumer view. Amazon's algorithmic bureaucracy is horrifying, with out of control feedback loops, perverse incentives and outright corruption. You couldn't write a dystopia this good http://twitter.com/... Garry Buidl Tan / @garrytan : “Amazon already has something like a judicial system — one that is secretive, volatile, and often terrifying."Most people have an expectation of due process... when it comes to interacting with megatech companies, that is far from the norm. http://www.theverge.com/... Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : Interesting detail buried in a story about the cut-throat Amazon marketplace: 70% of searches are for generic products like “running shoes” rather than for brands. http://www.theverge.com/... David Gaughran / @davidgaughran : This story should be morbidly familiar to anyone acquainted with Kindle Unlimited shenanigans: Amazon Marketplace is rife with scammers who are also targeting legitimate competitors and getting them removed. Victims are then forced to invent confessions. http://theverge.com/... Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : This is new. Turning Amazon's fight against fake reviews by buying fake reviews for your rival and framing them. “Scammers have effectively weaponized Amazon's anti-counterfeiting program.” http://www.theverge.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : I promise you this feature on Amazon is not as long as Dostoevsky, but the headline is definitely just as good http://twitter.com/...