This morning, Amazon sent me an email.
It wasn’t an apology. It wasn’t relief. It was a sales pitch.
Starting today, Amazon is opening a Global Warehousing and Distribution facility in Shenzhen, China. They’re promising storage costs 45% lower than US warehousing and AI-powered automated replenishment. They’re calling it the “Next Generation of Global Selling.”
I know what the Amazon squeeze looks like because I lived it. I built Andor Tulz, importing heavy-duty power hammer tooling. I did the work. I found the niche. Then the tariffs hit. Overnight, the math that sustained my business vanished.
I didn’t sit on my hands. I hunted for HTS exemptions — my product category wasn’t eligible. I searched for domestic manufacturers — none could fill the gap. The business I built stopped working because the platform I built it on didn’t care if I survived.
Amazon’s response to the tariff crisis wasn’t to advocate for sellers. It was to wait. They waited for the dust to settle, then built infrastructure to profit from the very crisis that put sellers like me out of business. They built a system where they win whether you succeed or fail. If you’re struggling with costs, they offer you a cheaper warehouse 7,000 miles away that keeps you tethered to their ecosystem forever.
Amazon didn’t solve the tariff problem for sellers. They solved it for Amazon.
It doesn’t matter if tariffs hit you, fees did, or a policy change wiped out your listing overnight. The mechanism is the same. Amazon sets the rules and you absorb the damage.
Three million sellers have no voice on this platform. SellerAction exists to change that. We’re taking real stories from real sellers and putting them in front of the people with the power to act — the FTC, Congress, and the press.
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