Everyone complains about how hard Amazon Canada is. Thats exactly why it works.

The barrier to entry IS the moat. Every Canadian seller who complains about ungating, about slower volume, about the complexity... thats your competitive advantage. The harder it is, the fewer people stick around.

Think about it. In the US you have hundreds of thousands of sellers fighting over the same products at the same stores. In Canada? Way fewer people are willing to deal with the extra steps.

That frustration you feel when a brand takes forever to ungate? Thats the same frustration that keeps 90%% of sellers from even trying.

Stop looking at the difficulty as a problem. Start seeing it as the reason this works.

What part of Canadian OA did you find hardest when you first started?

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