Amazon’s “shop stores directly” scraping shopify sites and placing orders

★★★ signal-strong r/shopify · ↑ 154 · 💬 112 · 2025-12-29 · kw: shopify amazon sync · open on reddit ↗

Tool

Shopify, Amazon

Issue

Amazon's "Shop Stores Directly" feature is scraping Shopify merchant catalogs without opt-in consent, listing deleted products, generating AI images, and authorizing orders for out-of-stock items, damaging merchant reputation and brand control.

Cost

unstated

Recommendation

none

Date context

2025-12-29; Amazon's "Buy for Me" feature described as experimental with no current merchant commission or opt-in requirement

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anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 · 2026-05-08

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My site, along with countless others are being scraped for Amazon’s app. Products I don’t even have anymore (like fully deleted from the back end) are being sold under this “shop stores directly” section of the app. They use AI images of items that aren’t mine, and authorizing orders to my site for items that are out of stock. I did not opt in to this nor is there an easy way to opt out. How did this happen and what is Shopify doing to rectify this?! I posted a reel about it on my IG if you wanna see what I’m talking about (bobodesignstudio)

Top comments (7)

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[score=26] NoJackingOff

wtf this is WILD. especially the pulling inactive products.. just watched ur reel, sounds like a newsworthy story

[score=14] Where_Da_Party_At

I dug deeper and read into the FAQ for the "buy for me" on Amazon pitch deck.. apparently merchants do not need to opt into this as it is experimental. Lol. What? That's a major breach of privacy right there. Just cuz your products are on the internet for sale doesn't mean that they have the right to list them without your permission.. I especially like the FAQ at the end.. [[ Q: Do merchants have to pay to be part of this experience/Does Amazon get commission from Buy for Me purchases? A: **No. Right now, this is an experiment,** and we’re trying to help customers find more products, and once they find the right product, we’re trying to help them make more seamless purchases.]] I read this as . No we're not making them pay right now but eventually we will take commission at our leisure.. This is absolutely ridiculous and I'm sorry this has happened to you... I'm a seller on Amazon so I don't come up under the "buy for me" but if you're not a seller on Amazon, and you don't choose to be, this is an absolute breach of so many antitrust laws. I mean I'm sure they're lawyers dug into this as far as they could but who's going to stop them anyway... You know Shopify is doing something similar too with "Collective" - I literally can't edit my theme anymore without seeing suggestions from other products in my actual collection sections. Like I don't want to see similar products, or I don't want to see my competitors products in my collections when I'm trying to edit my theme.. it's ridiculous..

[score=12] Dear-Job-7703

Ugh. I just searched for my brand on Amazon and saw almost my entire catalogue is on there. That makes me so angry. I have intentionally kept our product off Amazon because our entire business is based around small batch manufacturing and anti-fast fashion, which Amazon is the total opposite.

[score=8] Ccoop1091

I feel like this is a way to "oversell" and give our stores a bad reputation by frustrating customers. Amazon is a monopoly, and you don't get that big without some dirty tactics

[score=10] VillageHomeF

is there actually a thing called “shop stores directly” from Amazon? if so post a link

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