Unethical Chinese Amazon Black Hat Tactics with Kevin King

Contents:

Amazon Black hat in China - What Chinese sellers are learning

Amazon's response to Black Hat

Is it worth spending time worrying about Unethical black hat tactics in Amazon?

Yes it is serious.

Kevin likes to keep to white hat on Amazon. But he likes to know what’s Chinese Amazon sellers are doing.

Amazon Black Hat training in Canton

Kevin was speaking at the MDS - Million dollar seller group with Brandon Young

They were invited to an event.

It’s a weekly meeting on Amazon black hat tactics- and there were 1300 people there!

It was a Sunday meeting - and it was all about reviews.

The following meeting completely new topic.

Chinese Communist Party is involved with Amazon Black Hat Strategies

They were in a side room with a promoter.

Then Kevin heard a loudspeaker - the Communist Party turned up.

If you have over 1000 people at a gathering, you’re required to ask the Communist Party.

Being a good citizen - like a mini pep rally.

In USA, they pledge allegiance; in UK, you might sing something! [not really! - ed.]

Professional events for Amazon Black Hat

There are 1300 people - nice room, 5 screens (like a big football match) - host is beautiful.

The 5-6 speakers that spoke (in Chinese) were all about getting reviews with Amazon Black Hat tactics.

These guys paid 30 RMB - $6-7 to come to the event

The info was things that in the USA, Europe, you’d pay $5-10K to learn!

Kevin and Brendon presented on white -hat tactics - using Manychat (Brendon) and postcards (Kevin).

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Chinese style product research

The next day they did a special event for $300 each About 60 people came.

Brendon asked: how are you finding products?

Their system was look on Jungle Scout to figure out what to sell - get it made - and then use Black hat techniques to get it launched.

Amazon Black hat tactics being taught in China

How to get 2000 buyer accounts.

How to get 2000 credit card numbers eg bank of America will give you 600 of them!

They have the inside SOPs from Amazon. eg “Don’t leave a review within 14 days”

However, most don’t do social media.

Why Chinese sellers use Amazon black hat techniques

One of the guys came over to the hotel - been in Wall Street Journal - spoke to a few of the guys.

Kevin asked him point blank -

How do we compete with Amazon black hat users in China?

Why are they teaching black hat in China?

The reason why is “because it’s super competitive in China. There are 1.4 B people here! Also we’re “communist capitalists” - if we see an opportunity to make money, we need to grab it. We’re not trying to build a brand.

We don’t care about having 50 amazon accounts. Also, we don’t know whether the Chinese gov’t will make it illegal or tax us a lot. “

In the US or UK, economies more democratic. The situation in China is different.