Today’s tweet is not about Amazon operations, but about the survival status of Chinese sellers on Amazon.
When you are looking at the official Amazon forum, it is recommended that you do not read the content of the comment area.
Sometimes, you have to sigh that public opinion is really a terrible thing. And we may all wonder, who is in the wall? It takes a ladder to see the whole world.
On Amazon's official forums, most of the post discussions will not exceed 50. However, when you put the word China in the title, you will easily get a three-digit response. Among them, there are about 60% negative comments, about 25% sour words, and about 15% positive comments.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
If on Twitter and Facebook, you may see filtered political speech, on an apolitical platform like Amazon, you can get relatively truthful information. As shown in the picture above, the Chinese people think that the Xinjiang serfs are ironic, and the Americans really believe it.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
On March 17, Amazon wrote an open letter to Chinese sellers, in which it said: Amazon is taking comprehensive measures to mitigate defaults caused by the epidemic and the impact on seller account health, thereby reducing performance indicators for Chinese sellers. any negative effects.
This would have been a good thing, provided you didn't read the comments section.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
Are Chinese sellers special? You must know that the spread of the epidemic in the United States is far more serious than that in China. I think it might be because Americans are reluctant to quarantine.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
By the way, they say that when Chinese people contract the coronavirus, they are locked up in a store without food, water and toilet facilities.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
Of course, there are also sellers who expressed their sadness about China's misfortune, but he suggested to stop bowing to China. Xiao V is a little confused. When did Amazon bow to Chinese sellers? As a cross-border e-commerce platform, it is normal for Chinese sellers to settle in.
Source: Amazon Seller Forum
Some American sellers said in the comment section that Chinese sellers are synonymous with lying, cheating and stealing. However, according to relevant data, Chinese suppliers' products account for 70% to 80% of Amazon's products, and American sellers will also seek suppliers from China.
This has to remind me of a famous quote from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: We lie, we cheat, we steal, and we have a class dedicated to that. This is the glory of America's continuous exploration and progress.
It seems that American public opinion really likes to put a hat on China for what they have done, such as: American cotton farmers and the glory of the United States.
Having said that, I would like to reiterate the sentence written at the beginning: Public opinion is really a terrible thing.
Many people, including Chinese sellers, will have an inherent impression that Chinese sellers evaluate, swipe orders, and operate in a non-standard manner. They are the rat shit in the soup of Amazon. We don't deny that it exists, nor do we justify it, but these sellers are not so-called rat shit, but just some of Amazon's many violating sellers.
The fact is that this kind of behavior is common among the vast number of Amazon sellers, not the unique operation method of Chinese sellers, but it seems that only Chinese sellers are being scolded.
Amazon recently sued AppSally and Rebatest in Seattle Superior Court , accusing them of disrupting Amazon's marketplace by helping offending sellers leave fake reviews on Amazon's online marketplace. These are two American companies whose customers are American sellers.
Chinese sellers, no matter what others say, we are powerless to change such a negative image. But at least we don't want to endorse such a statement ourselves. You can target a certain seller, but don't say, Chinese sellers.
When Chinese sellers are discriminated against, you are also a part of being discriminated against.
