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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:40 am Post subject: Amazon.com Displays Sellers' Real Names |
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Some online sellers are concerned about Amazon's new practice of displaying their real names instead of their business names in the Sold By field. Sellers say the new practice is applied inconsistently and said they were uncertain if the new practice was a glitch or intentional. Many believe it's a result of sellers providing their taxpayer ID to Amazon.com. And in at least one discussion thread about the issue on the Amazon boards, sellers received conflicting information.
The problem is not just affecting sole proprietors who use a DBA to run their business, as one corporate seller explained
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y11/m12/i09/s01 |
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cohibastore.com
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Amazon.com Displays Sellers' Real Names |
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This popped up for one of my competitors where his real name name replaced the seller name on the selling pages, not the sold pages.
Also had a customer use my real name in a email and wondered where it came from. I'll have to review my amazon info. |
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*southie*
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
Posts: 1728
Location: Sunny Florida
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: Amazon.com Displays Sellers' Real Names |
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You have the option to select to have your REAL NAME displayed or not, I have elected to have this displayed but you also get a (TM) beside it to keep people from duplicating or impersonating you. Amazon is very secured; however, most of those who uses their real names like myself, have been with Amazon since mid-late 1994 (when Amazon went to eBay to lure some big Sellers over to help them get off the ground and by 1995 Amazon began to fly off the wall). It wasn't easy in the beginning in Amazon in it's earliest days but indeed has come a very long ways.
People have often asked me which came first? eBay or Amazon or Half.com? My answer would be none of the above - because auctionweb.com was actually in competition against .... two others ...
Can anyone remember without peeking who they were? They were there before auctionweb.com was but only auctionweb.com was completely different which made it so attractive and different.....
CLUE to place #1: Electronics, Music, Multi-media, et. al.
CLUE to place #2: I am the OLDEST on the internet, but auctionweb/eBay killed me.
Some of you old-timers like me also sold in one or both of these places too ... do you remember? |
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