Obviously, you have never dealt with Amazon as a merchant.
You still need to be compliant with PPWR, no matter you sell on Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress or the street corner.
You still need to be compliant with PPWR, no matter you sell on Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress or the street corner.
I am 100% sure AliExpress just doesn't care and ship it anyway.
The packaging issue is orthogonal to Amazon. they just apply the law.
(But of course this article is right about the insane admin and cost requirements for small companies.)