The scary part of this isn't that they were denied access. It's that they were denied with no opportunity for appeal.
As an entrepreneur this is probably one of the number 1 nightmare scenarios: one day you're in business, the next day you're not.
We always say never build a business off an ecosystem you don't control but the fact is there are many, many businesses that do just fine from it - and on the flip side, even non-ecosystem businesses are fragile in other ways (such as Uber being regulated into illegality in certain parts of the US and Asia).
That's just business! Somewhere, someone is just waiting to fuck you over :) the challenge is to make your fortune or build up your defenses before they do!
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The scary part of this isn't that they were denied access. It's that they were denied with no opportunity for appeal.
As an entrepreneur this is probably one of the number 1 nightmare scenarios: one day you're in business, the next day you're not.
We always say never build a business off an ecosystem you don't control but the fact is there are many, many businesses that do just fine from it - and on the flip side, even non-ecosystem businesses are fragile in other ways (such as Uber being regulated into illegality in certain parts of the US and Asia).
That's just business! Somewhere, someone is just waiting to fuck you over :) the challenge is to make your fortune or build up your defenses before they do!
And even if there was an appeal process it would still be unilaterally decided by Amazon.
It's the same feeling I get from Google whenever something goes down.