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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon (sellercentral.amazon.com) has 152 customer reviews on The Fair Hearing, with an average rating of 1.1 out of 5.
Never had an issue with Amazon but Amazon resales…. Absolutely shocking!
Ordered a set of 4 chairs…. 2 arrived! Arranged a return and reordered a set of 4. Again…. 2 arrived. Someone at Amazon resales clearly cannot count to 4 and they are not able to put them together to make a set of 4 apparently. Absolutely useless!
By CARON
Extremely Pathetic Experience with Amazon Seller Support
Amazon's Seller Customer Support is extremely disappointing, especially for small sellers using Easy Ship. Sellers are often left struggling between the logistics team and Seller Support, with no clear ownership or accountability.
Issues take too long to resolve, responses are repetitive, and there seems to be very little coordination between Amazon’s support and logistics teams. Small sellers invest their time, money, and effort to build their businesses, but the lack of effective support makes the experience frustrating and stressful.
Amazon needs to improve communication, accountability, and resolution times for sellers—especially small businesses that depend heavily on the platform.
By Shaktiio H.
Extremely Disappointing Experience With…
Extremely Disappointing Experience With Amazon Seller
I opened an Amazon Seller account expecting a professional platform that would help small businesses sell their products. Instead, my experience has been frustrating, expensive, and extremely difficult to navigate.
I paid to advertise my product, yet I made no sales while charges continued to accumulate. I understand that advertising does not guarantee sales, but the lack of transparency surrounding the different charges made it extremely difficult to understand exactly what I was paying for and why.
Another major problem was making changes to my listings and account. Some changes took days to appear, while others did not seem to take effect at all. When you're running a business and paying fees, you should be able to make necessary changes and see them reflected within a reasonable amount of time.
The most frustrating part was trying to get help. It was incredibly difficult to reach a knowledgeable person who could actually look at the account, explain the charges, and resolve the problem. Instead, I felt like I was going in circles through an automated system
By Heidi F.
Anyone who has spent more than twenty…
Anyone who has spent more than twenty minutes inside Amazon Seller Central will tell you that ****** **** is putting it politely. It is widely regarded as one of the most frustrating, hostile pieces of enterprise software on the internet.
The system feels like a chaotic patchwork of 2005 legacy code, bloated modern JavaScript, and automated algorithms that actively work against the people keeping their marketplace alive. A few of the classic absurdities almost every seller runs into:
Kafkaesque Support: Opening a case for a real issue almost always gets routed to Tier-1 bot responses that copy-paste irrelevant canned scripts, close tickets without reading them, or send you in endless circular loops.
Phantom Violations & Bot Triggers: A single stray word in a title or bullet point can get an entire listing flagged as a "pesticide," "hazardous material," or "medical claim," immediately suppressing sales while demanding certifications that do not exist for your category.
Catalog Chaos & Locked ASINs: Even when you own the brand and trademark, updating a single attribute, category node, or flat file can silently fail or get overridden by Amazon's internal retail team or a rogue scraper.
Inventory Black Holes: Sending stock into fulfillment centers only to have units get stuck indefinitely in "FC Processing," "Reserved," or marked missing, with zero recourse until an arbitrary reconciliation date passes.
The "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" Culture: Accounts and ASINs get frozen at a moment's notice by automated compliance sweeps, leaving the business owner scrambling to write multi-page Plans of Action (POAs) to algorithmic reviewers just to get cash flow back.
It is designed entirely around Amazon’s internal scale and risk mitigation, with zero regard for human user experience.
By Google A.
Amazon is not friendly to seller
Amazon is not friendly to seller. They will side with buyers, some of them are even scammers.
It is not a great company, though makes a lot of money!
By xiang Z.
Worst customer support for sellers, do not buy shipping labels from amazon
Worst customer support for sellers. Sellers account can be charged with any amount if you buy a shipping label from Amazon. They can charge extra amount in the name of giving any reason and the shipping label which should have costed around $5 now after a month, it will cost you $7 just because their carriers decides to charge $2 extra after a month without any reason and no Amazon customer support do not help you at all. Customer support team is just a group of stupid people or bots. So highly recommended not to buy any shipping label from Amazon for your FBM orders
By Experienced S.
Flawed onboarding system and completely incompetent seller support
I had an incredibly frustrating and unacceptable experience trying to set up an Amazon seller account.
I registered as an individual seller using completely valid US identity documents, a US physical address, and a US SSN. Due to an internal provisioning glitch on Amazon's backend during setup, my account was created with only the Canada marketplace activated—the US marketplace never showed up in my account switcher from day one.
I reached out to Seller Partner Support, waiting through multiple escalations and case transfers. After days of back-and-forth, support bluntly told me that the US marketplace on my account was permanently "Terminated" and that "this action cannot be undone."
I have never listed or sold a single product. I committed zero policy violations. The failure occurred entirely inside Amazon's own registration flow. When I asked for a resolution, their only advice was to "create a new account"—a reckless suggestion that routinely exposes new sellers to automatic Section 3 suspensions for duplicate accounts unless complex closure procedures are followed.
Amazon forces small business owners to deal with the consequences of its own broken infrastructure, offering no accountability or human technical troubleshooting. Zero stars if I could. Avoid putting trust in their onboarding process.
By Mahmudul H.
Nennen wir das Problem doch beim Namen
Nennen wir das Problem doch beim Namen: Der Amazon Seller Support ist in seiner jetzigen Form für Verkäufer teilweise schlicht unbrauchbar.
Bei praktisch jedem anderen Unternehmen würde ein derartiges Supportsystem einen massiven Shitstorm auslösen.
Man hat ein konkretes Problem, eröffnet einen Fall und erklärt ausführlich, was nicht funktioniert. Dann landet man bei einem Support-Mitarbeiter, der zwar freundlich sein mag, aber offenbar weder die Befugnisse noch die technischen Möglichkeiten hat, das Problem tatsächlich zu lösen.
Nach dem Gespräch bekommt man eine Zusammenfassung per E-Mail – auf die man NICHT ANTWORTEN kann.
Damit ist die Kommunikation beendet, aber das Problem natürlich nicht gelöst.
Also eröffnet man den nächsten Fall, erklärt einem neuen Mitarbeiter wieder alles von vorne und bekommt im schlimmsten Fall eine andere Antwort als zuvor. Niemand scheint den Vorgang von Anfang bis Ende verantwortlich zu bearbeiten.
Und wenn man sich darüber im Verkäuferforum beschwert, erscheinen standardisierte Amazon-Beiträge, die einem erklären, wie man den Seller Support kontaktiert.
Das ist ungefähr so, als würde man sich darüber beschweren, dass der Feuerlöscher nicht funktioniert, und als Antwort eine Anleitung bekommen, wo der Feuerlöscher an der Wand hängt.
Wir wissen, wo der Hilfe-Button ist.
Wir wissen, wie man einen Supportfall eröffnet.
Wir wissen auch, wie man eine Case-ID kopiert.
DAS IST NICHT DAS PROBLEM.
Das Problem ist, dass hinter diesem ganzen System offenbar kaum jemand erreichbar ist, der die Autorität und das Fachwissen besitzt, eine verbindliche Entscheidung zu treffen und ein Problem tatsächlich zu lösen.
Noch absurder wird es bei technischen Änderungen und der API. Was soll eine API bringen, wenn Änderungen übermittelt werden und Amazon anschließend bis zu sieben Werktage braucht, um überhaupt darauf zu schauen? Dann kann man sich die angebliche Automatisierung auch sparen.
Viele dieser Probleme wären vermutlich in fünf Minuten erledigt, wenn man einmal mit einer kompetenten Stelle sprechen könnte, die einfach sagt:
„Uns fehlt A, B und C. Reichen Sie das ein, dann ist die Sache erledigt.“
Stattdessen verbringt man Tage oder Wochen mit Cases, Wartezeiten, automatisierten Antworten und immer neuen Ansprechpartnern.
Und dann liest man im Forum einen standardisierten spanischsprachigen Amazon-Beitrag, der großspurig einen „Enlace de acceso rápido“ zum Support anbietet – und der Link führt zu sellercentral.amazon.in.
Das fasst die Situation eigentlich perfekt zusammen.
Amazon hat eines der größten E-Commerce-Systeme der Welt aufgebaut, aber beim Seller Support fühlt man sich teilweise wie in einem schlecht programmierten Ticketsystem aus den frühen 2000ern.
Das Problem sind dabei nicht die einzelnen Support-Mitarbeiter. Die können nur mit den Werkzeugen und Befugnissen arbeiten, die Amazon ihnen gibt.
Das Problem ist Amazon selbst und die Struktur, die das Unternehmen geschaffen hat.
Ein Support, der Probleme nur entgegennimmt, aber nicht lösen kann, ist kein funktionierender Support.
Eine API, deren Änderungen tagelang auf Bearbeitung warten, ist keine sinnvolle Automatisierung.
Und ein Forum-Bot, der auf Kritik am Support mit einer Anleitung antwortet, wie man genau diesen Support kontaktiert, ist keine Hilfe.
Es ist Beschäftigungstherapie für Verkäufer.