I think that selling on Amazon, outside of the safer categories like books, is somewhat of a crap shoot.
You can be the best seller and have the best customer service on the planet, still get untimely negs., and Amazon will give you the boot. I think the only people that may have some clout with Amazon are sellers that already have large sites and retail chains.
I started back on Amazon and started a stand alone website two months ago. It took about a month for my website products to start showing well in Google rankings. I've sold half of the amount that I've sold on Amazon the past month. Not bad...no fees and no stress about when someone else is going to close down my business.
Now, I'm completely focused on building website and use eBay and Amazon as secondary accounts. | 
