Santa Barbara business fights Amazon to get its $100,000 back
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Tonight’s Tipline Investigation involves the largest online retailer in the world, Amazon. The retail giant became what it is today partly due to a network of small retailers who sell their products using Amazon’s Merchant platform.
As one of those local retailers discovered, one mistake and they can lose everything.
Michael Waite lives in Santa Barbara, but sells his products all over the world through Amazon. His business, Diamond Hands Trading, was going so well Waite’s father decided to invest some of his retirement money.
But, a paperwork error brought everything to a screeching halt on May 3rd of this year.
“They came back and said I manipulated documents, which I did, my mistake 100%, that I manipulated documents and so they’re closing my account,” said Waite.
Waite said the mistake happened because he didn’t understand the Amazon system and he couldn’t get…
