In a sign of the times, my mom (previously a teacher, deeply skeptical of entrepreneurship for family history reasons) started an Amazon FBA business as an alternative to a part-time job in retirement.
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She has apparently watched 100+ hours of YouTube videos to prepare for this. “It’s much quicker than calling the Secretary is State and asking them how to file an assumed name application and YouTube is infinitely patient.” (Mom has hearing/etc challenges.)
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Her problems so far have been convincing Amazon that she’s legit (imagine a low-computer-literacy user running into a KYC problem and expecting this to be resolved by explaining herself to a human) and getting a bank account for the business.
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Apparently she had a tough time convincing a large US bank that opening a sole proprietorship to do an Amazon FBA business was a legitimate thing to do and this took a few works of arguing.
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I'm fairly surprised to hear that a bank would care at all about what a business did when it comes to just opening a basic checking account.
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It’s the law that they have to ask, and then imagine an interaction which is half either tyranny of small dictatorships / misplaced desire to protect a senior citizen from an Internet scam and half a fiercely proud woman reacting poorly to being looked down upon, and boom.
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