Amazon Restricting Sellers from Listing Items (ouch !)

[hapajenn1]

Curious to know your thoughts on amazon getting stricter about allowing regular sellers from listing products on Amazon. In this past yr alone I have received at least three emails about the following products:
- Apple Products cannot be listed (before I could list, but now only a select 2 or 3 big-time sellers can do so)
- Certain Pet Supply items (Amazon blocked anyone from listing)

Not a good sign moving forward for regular sellers like us on Amazon .... New Changes to take effect Nov this year.

[Gamefreak]

A lot of high demand, high fraud items are being restricted until after the holiday season is over.

[BigCJ]

No one wants to pay for $500 + for an apple and a diaper :P

Or worse yet, a knock off MP3 player.

[zoneout]

This is only continuation of megatrend. Last 30 years mom and pop stores run out of business by a few chains and bigbox stores. Now in ecommerce same trend will continue. The large operators will muscle-out the small guys.

And really this is the natural order of things in capitalism. Any industry will eventually get dominated by a handful of large players as competition forces small players to drop out and you are left with oligopoly.

Only way for small guy to survive in a long run is develop a niche that big players can't be bothered with.