What does it take to write to Jeff?
Mr. Bezos is one of the richest, most influential men in the world. How do you as an Amazon seller escalate to his staff in order to resolve your Amazon problems?
Jochen and I have both reviewed Bezos escalations while working at Amazon and since leaving the company.
When performance or policy teams cannot reply meaningfully to your emails, as it often happens these days, Executive Seller Relations represents a last resort.
If other internal teams can’t be bothered to read or take the time to understand your response to their own request for information, then another channel is needed. You have little choice but to ask Jeff’s people to put their own team on it, because without them, you’d keep banging your head against that Product Quality wall.
Make sure you point to your past Plans of Action when you contact Jeff, and attach those documents.
Also specify in your plan that you’ve implemented all of those steps.
You made this abundantly clear to Product Quality teams in the course of your appeal, but they failed to act.
Who knows, maybe they sent you the same email over and over. Maybe they asked you for more information. In any event, they did not take your material seriously, nor did they review it and make an adequate decision based on the information provided. It’s time to change the game. Email Jeff.
Will Jeff listen?
Bezos Escalations are on the rise. They may not answer as quickly as they did in my days patrolling the escalation queues, and they may not have their top people on them now, either. They are overloaded, they are trying to keep their emails from aging out, and they often need to dig through weeks or months of account annotations in order to sort out your story.
Make sure Jeff listens by doing things right.
You only get one crack at this, in most cases.
Don’t chance it with crazy long passages explaining background of a situation, or by blaming Amazon for their awful inability to correspond effectively with you. Get the vital, relevant details in front of the investigator and briefly cover what was missed in prior investigations. Then you’ve made your case and given yourself the best possible chance to succeed.
Jeff Bezos caricature by DonkeyHotey via Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0
I wrote Jeff Bezos several times at the jeff@amazon email (that the Internet claims is his) about a nightmare experience due to misinformation and inadequacy by several Amazon reps. Some history: each rep I was connected to was in a different country and despite false promises that their supervisor would get back to me, nobody ever did and each rep blew me off as nobody knew what the last rep said due to each call connecting me to different outsource centers around the world. This resulted in a wild goose chase of hours of my time wasted. Not only did Jeff never respond to my emails but a rep named Shalini did claiming that Jeff asked her to contact me yet she not only refused to provide a satisfactory resolution to my complaint but said no further emails would be acknowledged. What company or a person responding on behalf of a company’s CEO says this to a customer? One that doesn’t care about customers. I don’t believe Jeff Bezos ever asked her to contact me and it’s just a ruse so ppl think he gives a dam but if he did and this is how Amazon’s CEO responds to customers who have had a miserable experience all due to Amazon’s fault, then he truly doesn’t give a flying eff about his customers
Amazon think them as court – is amazon really above any country law and order ? No – it’s a simple company like your or mine who is providing services as service providers that’s their agreement saying – so as service providers they are obligated to provide an answer – if they don’t do just ask help of respective countries company house or consumer right – you have right to complain who is providing bad service
And about seller support team : they are 1st level or contract of any company- if they misinformation- they company legally liable for it as its representing the company support team, if the higher level deny – that’s their organisation problem – not the sellers problem – you are taking service from them.