Funds of European Amazon sellers wrongly frozen
Amazon has recently frozen funds of legitimate sales partners. The company has now acknowledged that mistakes were made. The blockade is being lifted, but sellers continue to face problems. According to European regulations, Amazon is obligated to ensure that there are no unfair traders active on its websites. Other marketplace providers also have the obligation to prevent sellers, for example, from evading value-added tax (VAT). Dragnet investigation Amazon appears to have conducted a kind of dragnet investigation on its European…