Amazon Sellers Demand a Competitive Marketplace

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Amazon Sellers Demand a Competitive Marketplace

U.S. House of Representatives

As small business owners, we are fed up with Amazon taking advantage of us. Amazon just issued changes to return policies that will devastate independent fashion sellers. At the same time, multiple major news stories broke in October showing that Amazon has been knocking off sellers’ products and rigging search results to favor its own brands.

These are just the latest in Amazon’s long history of anti-competitive business practices. And Congress is starting to take action. House Judiciary members just sent a letter to Amazon executives demanding that they answer for lying to Congress to further the tech giants monopoly agenda.

Amazon is not above the law. It’s time for Congress to break Amazon’s monopoly hold on e-commerce and ensure a digital marketplace that offers small businesses a real chance to compete. #ReinInBigTech #SmallBusinessRising

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To: U.S. House of Representatives
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We are small business owners, coming together because we know it is time to finally use our laws to break up America’s most dangerous monopoly: Amazon.

We have watched Amazon expand without restraint, to the harm of our businesses and our communities. While we do everything we can during this difficult time to keep our businesses alive, Amazon is leveraging its outsized power in the market to make record profits and muscle aside the competition. We want a level playing field where our small, independent businesses can compete and where no corporation is above the law.

Following a 16-month long investigation, the bipartisan House Judiciary Committee has released a report finding that Amazon has not been playing fair. It found:

Amazon has bullied and exploited the many businesses that depend on its website to reach consumers;

Amazon has bought other companies with the aim of snuffing out potential competitors;

Amazon has strong-armed suppliers to get better pricing than competing retailers get; and

Amazon has been able to vanquish competitors using unfair tactics such as predatory pricing.

As small businesses, we keep our communities healthy, support local economies, and provide millions of good jobs. Small business ownership is an especially important vehicle of economic mobility for immigrant, minority, LGBTQ, and women business owners. It is also crucial for shrinking the wealth gap, and reversing the steady decline in American entrepreneurship.

Amazon's predatory tactics threaten our existence. As small business owners, we ask that you heed the recommendations of the Committee's report. Pass legislation to break up and regulate Amazon. Help restore competition, because every entrepreneur should have the freedom to build a business and a fair shot to compete.