“As a result of customer feedback, from 22 November Amazon customers will be able to ship eligible items from amazon.com to Australian delivery addresses,”

For now it is temporary thing, as end goal is to become No1 in Australia via their local warehouses and site.

It is rumors that Amazon stand behind government decision to lower customs free imports by two times (to $500 AUD) and later further reduce this sum. Amazon use corruption and bribes to cut Chinese big competitors.

Employees at Amazon's logistics centers in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom are on strike today, the day of Black Friday - a commercial operation that weighs heavily in the turnover of the online retail giant - for challenge their working conditions. In Germany, about 620 people are involved in this protest movement, mainly in the warehouses of Bad Hersfeld and Rheinberg. Amazon's local representatives told reporters that most of the employees continue to work and that the strike would ultimately have very little impact on deliveries

For most sellers and a growing number of traditional businesses, Amazon is so big, so much the default place people go to shop, that they find ways to tolerate constant sabotage as just another cost of doing business. In a sense, the chaos of the platform fuels its own growth.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement

Amazon Scout

Amazon cancels HQ2 plans for New York City

In a statement, Mayor Bill de Blasio took a more aggressive stance toward Amazon than he had in recent weeks, implying that the company wasn’t willing to stick with the process amid opposition.

“You have to be tough to make it in New York City,” his statement reads. “We gave Amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor and do business in the greatest city in the world. Instead of working with the community, Amazon threw away that opportunity. We have the best talent in the world, and every day we are growing a stronger and fairer economy for everyone. If Amazon can’t recognize what that’s worth, its competitors will.”

But much of the criticism has focused on the subsidies that Amazon will recieve: as much as $3 billion, through a combination of tax incentive programs from the city and state. Critics of the deal include City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer and State Sen. Michael Gianaris, who represent Long Island City, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/2/14/18224997/amazon-hq2-new-york-city-canceled

...there's one part of Amazon's HQ2 competition that is deeply disturbing -- pitting city against city in a wasteful and economically unproductive bidding war for tax and other incentives. As one of the world's most valuable companies, Amazon does not need -- and should not be going after -- taxpayer dollars that could be better used on schools, parks, transit, housing or other much needed public goods.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/opinions/amazon-headquarters-competition-disturbing-richard-florida-opinion/index.html

Amazon thinks AI will help solve its counterfeits problem

Amazon (AMZN) — which has long struggled with counterfeit products on its site — will also automatically monitor for fake items. The project uses a type of AI called machine learning that constantly scans Amazon's stores and removes suspected fakes. Companies give Amazon their logos, trademarks and other important information about their brands, and Amazon scans product listings every day looking for bogus items before they are purchased.

Previously, brands had to report counterfeit items to Amazon. Now, Amazon is offering a "self-service counterfeit removal tool" which lets brands take down these items themselves.

Amazon's new product serialization service also offers a unique code for every item, which brands place on products during the manufacturing process. When products with these special serial numbers are ordered on Amazon, the e-commerce giant scans and verifies the authenticity of the purchase and can stop fake products from being bought.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/tech/amazon-counterfeits-project-zero/index.html

Special for class theory deniers:

Amazon doubled its profits to $11.2 billion and paid $0 in federal taxes. In fact, the company somehow got a rebate of $129 million.

Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysis of SEC filings, 2019

Another one bites the dust. in the US Trade War with China, the US is demanding 100% access to the Chinese market without using Chinese partners. But, even with partners, many have failed. The video shows why it happens.

Amazon Closes in China

"We are notifying sellers we will no longer operate a marketplace on Amazon.cn, and we will no longer be providing seller services on Amazon.cn effective July 18," the company said in a statement. Amazon's platform competes for Chinese sellers with Tmall, owned by the country's e-commerce leader Alibaba (BABA).

Amazon first entered the Chinese market 15 years ago, when it acquired an online book retailer, but it has struggled amid fierce competition. Research suggests that the company's market share in China was miniscule compared to local rivals. China's online retail market is huge, notching up about $2 trillion in sales annually, according to research firmer eMarketer. The US market is worth just over one quarter of that. The Chinese market is dominated by Alibaba, which accounts for more than half of all transactions, and local rival JD.com (JD), eMarketer data shows.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/tech/amazon-closes-china/index.html

In Amazon’s earnings call their chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky revealed that Amazon is now spending heavily in order to make one-day shipping the norm for Prime subscribers.

Capitalism

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7018955/Exposed-Amazon-destroys-millions-new-items-sell.html

@CFreak

This one is different. Customer returns are goods that belong to Amazon.

Goods that they are destroying mostly belong to other sellers who use Amazon warehouses, if goods are not sold Amazon hike storage costs 20x and lot of sellers just abandon products.