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News - Report: Amazon cracking down on third-party sales of Nintendo products - xSicKxBot - 11-04-2019

Report: Amazon cracking down on third-party sales of Nintendo products

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/report-amazon-cracking-down-on-third-party-sales-of-nintendo-products.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Some merchants&nbsp;who sell Nintendo products have reportedly received notices that they will need to get Nintendo’s approval&nbsp;if they wish to continue selling old and new Nintendo games and hardware on Amazon.</p>
<p>While neither Nintendo nor Amazon have yet publicly confirmed this, an email one vendor <a href="https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/selling-nintendo-products/526870?tag=theverge02-20">purportedly received</a> from Amazon and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943772/amazon-marketplace-nintendo-deal-used-retro-games-consoles-counterfeit">passed on to The Verge</a>&nbsp;spells out the new requirement and stipulates that “if you do not obtain approval to sell these products prior to 2019-10-31, your listings for these products will be removed.”</p>
<p>The vendor claimed they received the warning on the 31st, making it effectively impossible for them to contact Nintendo and get approval before the new requirement went into effect.</p>
<p>Gamasutra has contacted representatives of Amazon and Nintendo for confirmation and further clarification of this new requirement. If it remains in place, this will presumably put a stop to the lion’s share of used Nintendo games and hardware sales conducted via Amazon.</p>
<p>The Verge helpfully points out that this new arrangement is much akin to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/9/18079340/amazon-apple-iphone-ipad-watch-beats-deal-selling-products-online">the deal Amazon hammered out with Apple</a> this time last year, which saw Apple selling its products directly on Amazon while Amazon limited sales of Apple products to the company itself and its authorized resellers.&nbsp;</p>
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