Selling on Amazon is dead

Selling on Amazon is dead, 70 percent of sellers are Chinese sellers, alibaba is 95% middle men; college students or people pretending to be manufactures playing middle man to actual manufactures. At the start of every correspondence they spam you with images of manufacturing and pretend like they are the providers. Most products on the first page is often Chinese “manufactures” selling and sourcing and price guaging on the product. Those on alibaba controll the price to make profit margins skimp and for us based sellers. Making the price not worth it, Amazon takes its fees and the initial price of shipping makes thing skimp. I went created a product spend a 43k throughout the entire process and just when I started to reap the reward 4 months in, incomes Chinese knockoffs with a cheaper version. Fighting with alibaba in regards to the issue the manufactor no longer has a account with them. And it’s taking month to get a response or any action from them.