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Re:Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse ot... by daft_pink on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:47AM (#42461846)
It’s not misleading in the sense that they are requiring you to disclose your margins and proprietary information to prove those margins, when they are your competitor. Most sellers are not selling unique items and the ones they would probably compete against are selling the same item over and over again, so they can clearly use this information to determine which sellers they can squeeze the most easily, which categories they should run their own competing product in, demand your prove it so that they can identify your suppliers, by just using information from a few transactions where they decide to damage or lose your product.
Re:Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse ot... by pbalau on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:20AM (#42462240)
Did they change the article, because on the version I've read it doesn't say you have to disclose your cost, it says you can if you disagree with their estimate.

Plus, is Amazon loosing goods a common occurrence or this is a policy designed to solve an extraordinary issue?

The title is misleading, regardless of how bad the policy is.