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Amazon takes the position that this counts as "soliciting payments from buyers outside of Amazon", which is prohibited by the ToS.

See https://www.facebook.com/lalawgroup/posts/1719796444820559

My understanding is they sued the customer, Amazon stepped in to defend them, and they got a judgement against Amazon. But Amazon suspended their account in the meantime.

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> But Amazon suspended their account in the meantime.

...which wouldn't matter in this case, because the seller isn't going to use Amazon again anyway after this experience.

Linked post says:

> Nonetheless, the court found that Amazon was at fault, and liable for the item, and ordered a judgment in favor of plaintiff against Amazon.

So basically sounds like the seller recovered their money.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how is it not illegal to essentially try to subvert the court system by punishing the customer/seller for using it. If I worked into he judiciary, I would be very irate at Amazon trying to establish their own law.

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