In early 2019, some 35 of Amazon's more than 400,000 sellers accounted for around two-thirds of its online sales in India. Appario and Cloudtail accounted for 35% of the platform's sales revenue that time.
In April this year, India's antitrust body raided Cloudtail and Appario offices as part of investigations into accusations of anti-competitive practices such as promoting preferred sellers and giving priority to listings by some.
First Cloudtail and now Appario. What's gonna happen to my Amazon loot deals? 
This year, Pay Rewards have degraded massively.
This is why amazon services have degraded massively. Before 2020, there was almost no problems with any of my orders, 1% return/replacement but after 2020 lockdowns, damaged/expired products and by 2022 50% of the orders have problems.- either fake/damaged goods! Packaging is shit. Only brown paper bag is used to send hardcovers, caprese bags and lightbulbs. Expensive headphone was send as it is and had the plastic body broken twice.
Glass bottles of sauces were send without any paper stuffing.
I don't know if amazon india and its remaining sellers are now deliberately doing business with damaged stocks.
Colubolu
some1anywhere wrote:
First Cloudtail and now Appario. What's gonna happen to my Amazon loot deals?
This https://amazon.in/dp/0071267824 item
which I bought for ₹9.00 INR, in September 2013, was from UBS Publishers and Distributors https://amazon.in/sp?marketplaceID=A21TJRUUN4KGV&seller=A1TSQTFRN94P4R which is neither Cloudtail India Private Limited nor Appario Retail Private Limited.
Amazon's poorly designed India site (master formats loosely copied with similar errors, from other properties) had enough flaws and an excruciatingly painful one was that the desktop site never gave the option (in my account at-least) to give seller feedback to the old seller Cloudtail http://www.amazon.in/gp/help/seller/at-a-glance.html/ref=od_sold_by_link?ie=UTF8&isAmazonFulfilled=1&marketplaceSeller=1&seller=A14UQ4H17XUX90 unless the same order had items from other sellers.
Off late, offers are anyway more to do with brands, vendors (distributors) or small sellers forced to beecome vendors of Amazon Fulfilled sellers than the group companies acting as 'front' for Amazon.
If you want to have your Rawa Masala Dosa and eat it too... then would the governments have the gall to add trauma to the mom and pop stores, small kirana stores and officially allow hundred percent 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multibrand retail?
They (the governments) anyway shamelessly gave them an unwritten free-pass to conduct a multibrand retail operation in India, by creating book companies (companies which only existed in accounting books) which were Indian partnerships.
The governments gave two-hoots to THE FACT that the likes of Flipkart, Amazon violated the "no multi-brand retail where 100% stake is of foreign entities" law..
these conglomerates violated and continue to violate the law i letter and most certainly in spirit.
Let Amazon have a free pass, be allowed to be a seller on its own site.
Immediately, benefits like
■ automatic price match (compensation) if on-site price falls within N days of Cx purchasing an item.
■ Amazon Gift cards with more than one year validity
■ Replacement order creation even if product is Out of Stock with the seller whom you purchased from
... could become a reality in India too.
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The likes of Snapdeal arranged for replacements of defective/ damaged/ undelivered item from a different vendor/seller.. as far back as 2014-2015 too.
They based there SOPs differently.
Amazon sellers with thousands or milliins of SKUs as inventory.. anyway rely on third party support or Amazon trained associates/ vendors for catalogue uploading.
Pricing/ listing errors or Amazon's own website/offer related glitches eould continue.. even if there is not a single FBA seller.
Loots existed even on Rediff, more than twenty years back.
And trust me on this, if you can
🙂I know😉 from experience.
