A businessman who sells merchandise via Amazon has complained the net retail large may make small companies bankrupt on account of a coverage to delay funds.

The on-line market has prolonged a coverage to not pay sellers till seven days after the supply of their merchandise, to make sure it has funds for returns or buyer claims.

Amazon has now utilized the coverage to all European sellers.

Vendors registered earlier than 2016 - roughly 15% of complete UK and European merchants - weren't topic to the coverage till 3 August, and a few of them say the change is a risk to their companies.

Marios Katz, 46, from Cyprus, who sells CDs and vinyl to the UK, stated Amazon is holding £5,000 of his earnings.

"Amazon will lead us into bankruptcy for all the small businesses and companies," Mr Katz instructed Sky News.

He stated his payments, staff, postage and couriers will go unpaid.

"We will not be able to pay our supplier for the products we buy and sell on Amazon. This is unacceptable," he added.

The monetary web site This is Money estimates 33,750 of the 225,000 companies in Europe that promote via Amazon may very well be impacted by the change.

Hundreds of complaints have been posted on the Amazon Sellers discussion board by those that have had their cash withheld, as reported by the BBC.

The Treasury is conscious of the matter, the broadcaster stated, citing the workplace of Conservative MP for Bracknell, James Sunderland.

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Amazon instructed Sky News the coverage was first launched in August 2016, already utilized to 85% of sellers, and that the rest got three months' discover.

A spokesperson stated: "This process will standardise this policy for European sellers to ensure they have sufficient funds to cover any financial obligations, like product returns or customer claims.

"This change doesn't impression the overwhelming majority of promoting companions."