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Dirty Dealings in the $175B Amazon Marketplace

A long form piece by The Verge detailing the Kafkaesque bureaucracy that Amazon sellers face if they find themselves in "Amazon Court" having transgressed the ruthless world of the Marketplace and the byzantine rules by which Amazon governs it.

Recently, the fierce competition of Amazon’s Marketplace has given rise to outright bribery. In September, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was investigating employees in the US and China for leaking internal data to sellers in exchange for bribes. A month later, the paper reported that one employee had been fired, and customers who had their emails leaked had been notified.

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