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Jason Del Rey. March 8, 2024 at 2:50 PM. David Ryder—Bloomberg/Getty Images. The Federal Trade Commission has begun examining a new set of fees Amazon has recently levied on U.S. merchants ...
April 1, 2024 at 3:59 PM. Michael Nagle—Bloomberg/Getty Images. Hundreds of thousands of merchants on Amazon will get a brief reprieve from a new controversial fee that was to take effect on ...
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [ 1 ][ 2 ] If a victim makes the payment, the ...
Sellers now get penalized for low inventory—and for too much inventory. Beyond the new inbound placement fees that go into effect March 1, on April 1 Amazon will also begin charging many sellers ...
The payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust litigation is a United States class-action lawsuit filed in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa, Mastercard, and numerous financial institutions that issue payment cards. The suit was filed because of price fixing and other allegedly anti-competitive trade ...
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...
E-commerce automation companies are increasingly exploiting Amazon’s third-party marketplace, which now hosts millions of merchants and accounts for more than half of all goods sold on the site.
In e-commerce, brushing, also called "review brushing", [1] is a deceitful technique sometimes used in e-commerce to boost a seller's ratings by creating fake orders, [2][3][4][5] which are either shipped to an accomplice or to an unsuspecting member of the public. Most e-commerce sites rate sellers by multiple criteria and display these seller ...