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Yeah sure, "invest compliance resources" when they don't even let you know what the application procedure is? Sure. The anti-competitive behaviour is shown as it's not possible to for small companies to even apply! If large companies can deploy resources towards compliance small can too, but without knowing the rules it's impossible.

Surely some sort of quality control would need to be in place for new suppliers. Assume it’s solvable though.

Have you bought e-gift cards before?

Amazon won’t even acknowledge when asked what the process is and how to apply to be pre-approved.

But why allow people to buy thousands of egift cards for restaurants, hotels and food delivery then? They seem to have conflicting policy to their product offering. Support won’t even let me apply to become pre-approved so it’s discriminating towards small companies and brands in favour of big ones.

Retail gift cards are supposedly physical cards, not eGift cards?

Prohibited items: 'Cash or cash equivalent instruments, including money orders, checks that can be customized (including blank checks), traveler's checks, stored value products like retail or open loop gift cards or electronic stored-value redemption codes (except for retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers) Gift cards, including: Gift cards, except retail gift cards listed by pre-approved sellers'

But restaurants, delivery apps, Abnb, Hotels.com and even Chewy have ecards:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Hotels-com-Red-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B01... 2. https://www.amazon.com/Bath-Body-Works-Snowflake-Email/dp/B0... 3. https://www.amazon.com/Dominos-Pizza-Gift-Cards-mail/dp/B00M...

4. https://www.amazon.com/DoorDash-Gift-Cards-Email-Delivery/dp...

5. https://www.amazon.com/Instacart-Gift-Card-Email-Delivery/dp...

6. https://www.amazon.com/Chewy-eGift-Card-Delivery-Standard/dp...

" Please be informed that you cannot list the e-gift card listing as it falls under prohibited listing as per the Amazon policy as mentioned in the following help page. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G2001644... "

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Interesting article from MIT Tech Review on the topic: https://bit.ly/2OPFjV7

End of the day it comes down to incentives and barriers. Offering training to outsiders to increase the supply of people is great, but not easy. Most don’t complete online courses, expensive traditional training and education is expensive, complex and hard to navigate.

Educating in-house is costly and inefficient end of the day too.

Leaving it all to some of the big tech probably not the most risk free option either.

That’s why the trend of income sharing schools exists I think they make sense - low risk, low barriers and high incentive.