SEATTLE • For many small merchants, selling on Amazon.com is an easy way to boost their business in a tough economy — if only they can get paid. Dozens of online sellers complain that Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. arbitrarily withholds their payments for as long as three months, jeopardizing their ability to replenish inventories and stay in business, according to a Seattle Times review of state records. Sellers who say they've been hurt by this practice are the single most common source of complaints filed against Amazon with the Washington state attorney general's office in the past three years, The Times found. All told, the attorney general's office received more than 370 complaints...
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