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by simonbarker87 2018 days ago
If you have had the misfortune of interacting with Amazon seller central or vendor central as a merchant, as I sadly have. This won’t come as a surprise, it boggles my mind how bad, buggy and user hostile that software is. The fact that Amazon keeps moving forward with their IT estate as bad as it is amazes me.
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They get away with it because there is no competition. Well there is eBay, but that has an even worse api.

What are you doing to do? Deal with it or decide to not sell your products?

I ran a small manufacturing business that listed on Amazon in both seller and vendor central. I was just interacting with it as a ”common user” for 5 years. Never tried to develop against the API - we did about £300,000 per year through the platforms.
This is my experience, too. I was a new paying user of Amazon Seller Central, confused by the UI and missing documentation, and they simply ignored my ticket.