HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Fort Wayne’s NBC) – A clothing seller says it has had to eliminate some jobs because Amazon is blocking it from selling on its platform.
In a warehouse owned by Homier LLC, you find rows and rows of close-out and overstocked clothing items from one of the biggest department stores in the country.
We’re not naming that department store to protect Homier’s contractual arrangement with the chain.
Homier sells some of the stuff in a small storefront in Huntington called Bobbi + Bricka.
The items were selling best when marketed on Amazon.
But since August, the online giant has blocked Homier’s selling rights.
“We’ve been unable to talk to someone from Amazon to get this resolved,” Chuck Homier said.
Homier says he’s been told the action was taken on the suspicion he might be committing trademark violations or peddling counterfeit goods, things he vehemently denies.
We saw a letter from the department store chain he works with, verifying he has authority to re-sell its products in the U.S. and internationally.
But it hasn’t convinced Amazon yet.
Before this dispute, he had plans to hire 20 more people for the Christmas shopping season.
He has scrapped that, and laid off 20 other workers.
Huntington County Economic Development wrote Amazon, detailing Homier’s “60 years of philanthropic commitments in our community,” going on to say, “The suspension is impacting a lot of individuals in our local community due to recent layoffs.”
“I don’t want to seem like the tin foil guy with the tin foil hat trying to make up conspiracies, but we just wonder why they would do it to us and not people selling the exact same goods, in the exact same marketplaces, on the exact same pages of Amazon,” Chuck Homier said.
We reached out to Amazon, seeking comment on the situation, but at the time of this report, no one had returned our messages.
Amazon has caught flak for not doing enough to combat the sale of “fake” goods on its site.
In February, a headline in The Washington Post read, “Amazon moves to end the scourge of fake goods on its platform.”
The article went on to say, “Merchants have complained about lax policing of counterfeits.”
In April, President Trump signed a memorandum to stem the problem, pledging a crackdown on the “Wild West” of online trafficking.
Homier supports such policing, but believes Amazon would be sympathetic to his pleas, if it would hear him out.
Homier in 2001 was named Entrepreneur of the Year in the retail division of Northern Indiana’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
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