Anyone know anything about Amazon's new policies?

[Chris]

Just spotted this on TFB: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/02/13/amazon-removing-gun-products-from-store-worse-than-ebay/

 

Does anyone have any further information? I don't want to cancel my Amazon membership unless this is legit.

[Wingshooter]

I hope not. I pretty much use my Amazon Prime account for just about everything. I get boxes here every few days from amazon. In fact, I got 3 deliveries from them today.

I sure would hate to have to cancel my business with them, but I will if feel it' necessary.

I hope it's not true. I'll guess we'll find out soon

ETA: I quick search still reveals a bunch of gun related stuff Edited February 14, 2013 by Batman

[2.ooohhh]

I haven't seen their prohibited list of items change but I have seen individual sellers trying to get around it to make a buck.

 

They made it pretty clear in their policies for sellers that they didn't want slide fire stocks on their site yet. . .

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http://amzn.com/B0085ZX2YI

 

http://amzn.com/B0085ZX2RK

 

http://amzn.com/B0085ZX2MA

[mcurrier]

I hope not. I pretty much use my Amazon Prime account for just about everything. I get boxes here every few days from amazon. In fact, I got 3 deliveries from them today.

I sure would hate to have to cancel my business with them, but I will if feel it' necessary.

I hope it's not true. I'll guess we'll find out soon

ETA: I quick search still reveals a bunch of gun related stuff

 

Same here, I just got two different holster deliveries from them today for a new pea shooter, binoculars yesterday, and something almost every single day.

 

I am already not looking forward to possibly giving them the heave-ho in 2014, now this comes up.  If this is true that will REALLY SUCK!

 

90% of the stuff in my house came from Amazon.  I was an early internet adopter and online buyer (since 1997) without any fear of online buying.  This will ruin my day for sure.

[Oh Shoot]

Looks like same as always so far ??

 

Prohibited items

• Guns, such as:
  • Antique and collectible guns
  • Automatic guns
  • Black powder guns
  • Muzzleloader
  • Rifles, shotguns, pistols
  • Sport and hunting guns
  • Starter guns
  • Zip guns
• Ammunition, such as:   
  • Black powder
  • Blanks
  • Bullets
  • Bullet tips
  • Gun powder
  • Shotgun Shells
• Gun parts and accessories, other than the above permitted parts and accessories, such as:
  • Barrels
  • Camouflaging gun containers
  • Chokes
  • Converters that can give a gun automatic capability
  • Firing pins
  • Frames, such as components
  • Kits that can be used to create gun magazines
  • Magazines
  • Multi-burst trigger activators
  • Parts or accessories related to assault weapons
  • Receivers, such as components
  • Silencers
  • Trigger assemblies

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_rel_topic?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200277700

 

- OS

[Chris]

Sounds like TFB is over reacting.

[2.ooohhh]

Amazon has had the nearly the same policy of "prohibited items" since I started selling there back in 2007. My list from my welcome email is missing "zip guns" and "receivers" though. The enforcement of the policies that they do have is VERY lax, b/c they make money off every sale, they want as many items up for sale as possible. The only time I've had an issue was when a "customer" complained about a listing I had, though I believe it was actually a "compeditor" trying to sell the same item for much more $$$. 

 

My guess in this case is that the complaintant was selling something against amazon's policy and probably has been for years, but now a lefty customer stumbled upon the item, claimed that they were "offended by the seller's blatant disregard of amazon policy" and pretty much forced amazon to review the seller's listings or catch the stink of some blogger or journalist publishing that they are "letting" sellers sell items against their own policies.(they pretty much always have)