Tag: Amazon
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Is this the worst Plan of Action in the history of Amazon?
[whohit]Is this the worst Plan of Action in the history of Amazon?[/whohit]When browsing social media groups for Amazon sellers, you will often see questionable content, prompting the reader to wonder, how did this trader manage to survive on the platform for even a day. Recently, we came across a really poor Plan of Action attempt,…
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Is it a good idea to set the RRP on Amazon?
[whohit]Is it a good idea to set the RRP on Amazon?[/whohit]For a while, Amazon has been actively encouraging it’s third party sellers to insert the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) into their listings. Here you can view one of the e-mails asking a seller on the Italian marketplace to update his listings and suggesting that this…
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Amazon USA raises the IPI target for Unlimited Storage to 500
[whohit]Amazon USA raises the IPI target for Unlimited Storage to 500[/whohit]Following a difficult period affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Amazon Sellers were left shocked after Amazon suddenly raised the minimum IPI score target for maintaining the “Unlimited Storage” from 350 to 500. Sellers whose FBA inventory isn’t performing well will therefore face limits…
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Amazon begins rolling out bigger UPS and FedEx-style delivery trucks
[whohit]Amazon begins rolling out bigger UPS and FedEx-style delivery trucks[/whohit]Amazon USA is launching a new fleet of bigger trucks like those favored by rival package carriers UPS and FedEx, as it fights to fix pandemic-fueled delivery delays that sent customers into the arms of competitors like Walmart. The world’s largest online retailer ordered more than…
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Now you can make your FBA items available across Amazon CA and MX from single inventory
[whohit]Now you can make your FBA items available across Amazon CA and MX from single inventory[/whohit]If you are doing FBA on the Amazon USA marketplace, you can now have your products fulfilled out of it’s inventory, without the need to create any separate shipments to Canadian or Mexican warehouses. It is possible under the new…
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Amazon USA to make third party seller’s business details public starting September 2020
[whohit]Amazon USA to make third party seller’s business details public starting September 2020[/whohit]Starting 1.September 2020, third party sellers on Amazon’s North American platform will no longer be able to keep their business details – such as full name, address, phone number hidden. Instead, they will be published on each merchant’s storefront page, in the same…
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Great trick how to uncover the identity of any Amazon Seller on the USA marketplace
[whohit]Great trick how to uncover the identity of any Amazon Seller on the USA marketplace[/whohit]Recently, Amazon USA announced their intention to start making third party seller’s business details public in the same way, as it has been always been the case on their European and Japanese platforms, where doing so is mandatory by local laws.…
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Update to Stranded Inventory Removal on Amazon
[whohit]Update to Stranded Inventory Removal on Amazon[/whohit]Starting 30.June, Amazon will no longer be classifying Stranded Inventory as unsellable, but instead it will be automatically removed based on each seller’s removal settings. Here you can review the full announcement:
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth hits a new high of $171 billion as Amazon stock soars
[whohit]Jeff Bezos’s wealth hits a new high of $171 billion as Amazon stock soars[/whohit]Jeff Bezos’s fortune has soared to $171.6billion, breaking his previous wealth record, which was set on September 4, 2018, before his divorce, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. This year alone Bezos has seen his fortune increase by $56.7billion. Amazon has only seen…
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Amazon purchases naming rights of Seattle’s NHL arena
[whohit]Amazon purchases naming rights of Seattle’s NHL arena[/whohit]The world’s richest man, Founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, announced that the company has purchased the naming rights of the venue that will host Seattle’s NHL team. Seattle’s expansion team will play their inaugural season during the 2021-22 NHL season. They do not currently have a…
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Upcoming changes to the Amazon Europe Programme Policies
[whohit]Upcoming changes to the Amazon Europe Programme Policies[/whohit]Starting 12.July 2020, Amazon will be adding new policies to it’s Business Solutions Agreement, which include a permission to Data Processing, agreeing to the way how BuyBox works or a potential Mediation as the way how to resolve disputes outside of court. Here you can view the full…
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Amazon and Valentino file joint lawsuit against an alleged counterfeiter
[whohit]Amazon and Valentino file joint lawsuit against an alleged counterfeiter[/whohit]This will be Amazon’s first joint litigation with a luxury fashion brand and Valentino’s first join litigation against an online retailer. The defendants are New York-based Kaitlyn Pan Group, LLC and New York resident Hao Pan, accused of counterfeiting Valentino’s iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, and…
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Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
[whohit]Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit[/whohit]According to their latest blog post, Amazon is launching a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, dedicated to taking a legal action against alleged counterfeiters on the platform. The global team, made up of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts, will support the company’s substantial efforts already underway to protect…
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Quantity limits removed for shipments to Amazon
[whohit]Quantity limits removed for shipments to Amazon[/whohit]After several months which were affected by the global coronavirus pandemic, Amazon finally lifted all restrictions on shipments to their FBA warehouses. The update has been announced in the Seller Central:
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Start-up Accelerator Programme launched by Amazon to help UK businesses
[whohit]Start-up Accelerator Programme launched by Amazon to help UK businesses[/whohit]Launched in partnership with small business support network Enterprise Nation, the programme will provide support for more than 200,000 businesses across the UK. This includes a free online training programme, discounts on business supplies and protective equipment and dedicated Amazon Web Services training. Up to 1,000…
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Amazon speaks out against Trump’s freeze on immigrant work visas
[whohit]Amazon speaks out against Trump’s freeze on immigrant work visas[/whohit]Major tech companies including Amazon decried President Donald Trump’s freeze on a range of immigration work visas Monday, calling it “unbelievably bad policy” that would undermine America’s economic recovery and its competitiveness. Trump issued a proclamation Monday suspending the issuance of a variety of visas that allow foreigners…
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Amazon is reportedly considering adding live TV to its Prime Video service
[whohit]Amazon is reportedly considering adding live TV to its Prime Video service[/whohit]Amazon could be planning to bolster its Prime Video service, which is mostly known for its on-demand video offerings, with live TV, according to publicly available job listings. Details are light about what the new live TV services might entail, though the efforts appear to…
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Amazon UK Managing Director Doug Gurr quits after nine years
[whohit]Amazon UK Managing Director Doug Gurr quits after nine years[/whohit]Amazon UK Managing Director Douglas Gurr will leave Amazon after nine years to begin his new role as the director of the British Natural History Museum. The businessman, born in Leeds is a strong supporter of the European Union, regularly making headlines with his criticism of…
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EPA asks Amazon and eBay to remove unproven COVID-10 disinfectants
[whohit]EPA asks Amazon and eBay to remove unproven COVID-10 disinfectants[/whohit]The Trump administration is ordering two of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in the United States — Amazon and eBay — to stop selling unproven or unsafe disinfectants, including products falsely marketed as killing COVID-19. The Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday issued orders to the two companies…
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Amazon USA enforces Pre-paid Returns for international sellers
[whohit]Amazon USA enforces Pre-paid Returns for international sellers[/whohit]By now, international Amazon merchants were able to handle their returns themselves with multiple options to choose from. Starting 15.June 2020, Amazon USA marketplace will be enrolling mandatory Pre-paid Returns for sellers based outside of the country as well. This will mean that the return postage will be…
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Start selling on Amazon Singapore and get no monthly fee and account manager
[whohit]Start selling on Amazon Singapore and get no monthly fee and account manager[/whohit]Amazon Singapore is an emerging international marketplace that is looking for new third party sellers to start doing there business. In my latest article I invited you to Amazon Singapore’s Online Summit, which you can still join until 19.June: If you are looking…
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Amazon adds new Listing Quality Dashboard
[whohit]Amazon adds new Listing Quality Dashboard[/whohit]If you are visiting the Seller Central daily, you must have noticed the recent trend of new features being added and interface changing. One of the latest improvements is the Listing Quality Dashboard, which gives sellers suggestions how to improve their listings to ensure great visibility. Currently, it’s still a…
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Marcus by Goldman Sachs Line of Credit for Amazon Sellers
[whohit]Marcus by Goldman Sachs Line of Credit for Amazon Sellers[/whohit]In Amazon’s 10.June 2020 update, the company announced a new partnership with Marcus by Goldman Sachs to offer it’s third party sellers a lending opportunity. Here you can review the full announcement: For more information, visit Amazon Lending.
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Long-term storage fees to return on 15.June
[whohit]Long-term storage fees to return on 15.June[/whohit]Today Amazon announced in their e-mail to third party sellers that it’s Long Term Storage charges will resume starting 15.June 2020, following a short break caused by the global pandemic. Here you can review the full announcement dated 10.June 2020: “Hello from Fulfillment by Amazon, We will resume the…
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Attend Amazon Singapore’s Online Seller Summit
[whohit]Attend Amazon Singapore’s Online Seller Summit[/whohit]These days, when travel and socializing is severely restricted, sellers find it difficult to stay in touch with the community. Amazon Singapore, the emerging international marketplace recently announced their first Seller Summit, aimed at both longtime merchants and newbies. If you are into learning something new, take your change and…
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Beware of phishing e-mails
[whohit]Beware of phishing e-mails[/whohit]As the suspensions for failure to meet Amazon’s performance standards resumed following a short break due to pandemic, phishing e-mails threatening account deactivation are back. Many of them look very realistically and don’t end up in the spam folder. Here is just an example of what will most likely cause a shock…
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Visit Amazon’s new help page dedicated to VAT
[whohit]Visit Amazon’s new help page dedicated to VAT[/whohit]Amazon has a new Seller Central page to develop seller’s understanding of the VAT ecosystem. The pages are designed to help them learn about their obligations and how to meet them. All the relevant information can be found there: existing legislation, various triggers of VAT obligations, VAT registration,…
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Massive fire at Amazon FBA Warehouse
[whohit]Massive fire at Amazon FBA Warehouse[/whohit]Firefighters battled a fire that completely destroyed a large Amazon FBA warehouse Friday morning near a freeway in Redlands, Los Angeles. Video from the scene showed big rig trailers, including at least one Amazon trailer, on fire. https://www.foxla.com/video/691868 Firefighters said the building, estimated at about 600,000 square feet, is a…
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Amazon pauses police access to AI tool
[whohit]Amazon pauses police access to AI tool[/whohit]One day after IBM said that it’s exiting the facial recognition business, Amazon said it would place a “one-year pause” on allowing police to use its facial recognition tool. While IBM will no longer offer, develop or research facial recognition software, Amazon is using a moratorium in the hope that…
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Consumer spending on Amazon surges
[whohit]Consumer spending on Amazon surges[/whohit]While the overall customer spending in the United States is down, the trend of online shopping and especially on Amazon improves. According to the recent statistics, a high percentage of U.S. consumers (52%) have reduced their overall spending since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. However, 63% have increased or maintained their…
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No defects for Amazon orders placed before 1.June 2020
[whohit]No defects for Amazon orders placed before 1.June 2020[/whohit]If there is one good thing Amazon has ever done to help it’s third party sellers, it’s their approach to the unexpected global pandemic situation, which left millions of businesses in a difficult situation. Account suspensions due to failure to meet performance targets were paused in April,…
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Amazon issues incorrect pre-suspension warnings
[whohit]Amazon issues incorrect pre-suspension warnings[/whohit]If you recently received an e-mail and a Performance Notification threatening with a suspension, mentioning that Amazon attempted to call you, despite your Account Health is in a pristine condition and no record of a missed phone call, you are not the only one. This type of a technical error is…
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Beware of a major Amazon Buyer-Seller Messaging glitch!
[whohit]Beware of a major Amazon Buyer-Seller Messaging glitch![/whohit]These days, numerous third party Amazon sellers are experiencing a dangerous Seller Central glitch which causes recent Buyer-Seller Messages to appear as several months or even years old. Consequently, sellers are tricked into believing the conversation relates to a historical order that can no longer affect their metrics,…
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Suspended Amazon Seller Sues 7 Brands For Defamation
[whohit]Suspended Amazon Seller Sues 7 Brands For Defamation[/whohit]A Pennsylvania hobby goods reseller on Thursday 7.May filed a defamation lawsuit accusing Mattel, Rubik’s Brand, Velcro and four other companies of falsely claiming it sold counterfeit products, causing Amazon.com to revoke it’s selling privileges. Modellbahn Ott Hobbies, which operates as Supreme Hobbies, said Amazon suspended it’s online…
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US Government Blacklists Five International Amazon Marketplaces
[whohit]US Government Blacklists Five International Amazon Marketplaces[/whohit]Five of Amazon’s foreign websites have been placed on a blacklist by the Trump administration. According to the US trade representative’s office, company’s UK, Germany, France, India and Canada sites facilitated the sale of counterfeit and pirated products. This action was the result of complaints from US businesses over…
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Fight Amazon’s algorithm and get your FBA BuyBox back
[whohit]Fight Amazon’s algorithm and get your FBA BuyBox back[/whohit]If you are a third party seller doing FBA on the Amazon platform, apart from inability to ship most types of items into their warehouses due to the coronavirus pandemic, you must have noticed a shocking development. Unlike in the past, “non-essential” FBA items such as toys…
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Sad Story of UK Amazon Seller TrueFix
[whohit]Sad Story of UK Amazon Seller TrueFix[/whohit]Since the beginning of the year, the global coronavirus pandemic slowly affected the entire world. While some businesses thrive thanks to increased demand for their goods and services, others are struggling to survive. A few days ago, I have been contacted by a third party Amazon Seller Anita Dengiz,…
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Is price gouging a myth?
[whohit]Is price gouging a myth?[/whohit]These days, during the global coronavirus crisis, many people and organisations outside of the Amazon platform unfamiliar with how it all works are getting outraged seeing how the prices of essential products offered by it’s third party merchants are exceeding the ones available in large brick and mortar stores such as…
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Amazon’s new outrageous approach to claims funded by them
[whohit]Amazon’s new outrageous approach to claims funded by them[/whohit]Having an A-Z claim funded by Amazon has always been viewed as the neutral outcome between losing and having it denied. This happened in cases where the company was unable to tell who is at fault after reviewing both the evidence provided by the buyer and seller.…
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Can the world’s largest Amazon seller accounts get suspended?
Many sellers wrongly believe that large merchants are treated differently by the marketplace, but in a fact, when it comes to account suspensions, the risk of this happening is equal for everyone. [whohit]Can the world’s largest Amazon seller accounts get suspended?[/whohit]Some German sellers noticed, that the second largest Amazon account in the country has been…
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Strict Price Caps On Surgical Masks Sale In Amazon Italy
[whohit]Strict Price Caps On Surgical Masks Sale In Amazon Italy[/whohit]Following Italian government’s decision, Amazon enforces a 0.50€ per unit (plus VAT) price cap on the sale of surgical masks in the country’s marketplace, making it literally impossible to continue offering such items for sale. Here you can review the full announcement:
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Price Caps on COVID-19 related items on Amazon Spain
[whohit]Price Caps on COVID-19 related items on Amazon Spain[/whohit]Following the decision of Spanish government, Amazon now requires sellers to comply with strict price caps affecting specific items related to the global coronavirus pandemic. The maximum allowed price for disposable face masks is 0.96€ per unit. For gels and hydroalcoholic solutions the limits are following: Up…
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Amazon Mexico Temporarily Eliminates Referral Fees
[whohit]Amazon Mexico Temporarily Eliminates Referral Fees[/whohit]As announced in today’s e-mail sent to the marketplace’s third party sellers, Amazon is eliminating referral fees for products in “priority” categories starting 16.April until 31.May. Here you can review the full notification:
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Thousands of third party Amazon sellers suspended due to Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy
Amazon announced Monday that it has deactivated more than 3,900 selling accounts registered within their American marketplace for violating the Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy. [whohit]Thousands of third party Amazon sellers suspended due to Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy[/whohit]As coronavirus fears began to spread in early March, the company said it was implementing strict measures to prevent…
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My pop song “Kika Angelic – Where are you Jeff?” asking for help
This video represents my song “Kika Angelic – Where Are You Jeff?”, which I composed and recorded to ask Jeff Bezos for help with extreme abuse and cyberbullying I experienced on the Amazon Seller Forum, after all the support of the Seller Community has been ignored by the company. ➡️ If you are an Amazon…
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My Journey From Slovakia To Seattle Asking Jeff Bezos For Help With Cyberbullying On Amazon Platform
This video documents my journey from Slovakia to Seattle, WA in the United States, where I traveled to ask Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for help with cyberbullying which I experienced on the Amazon Seller Forum. I received no help from the company and I am continuing in my journey to justice: ➡️ If you are…
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Amazon Sweden site remains unavailable and listings are getting redirected to Amazon.DE
Several months ago, Amazon Europe announced their expansion to the Swedish market by introducing the Amazon.SE marketplace, which is now also available in the Seller Central. Despite the Amazon.SE option is already included in the dropdown menu in seller accounts and its Manage Inventory section is filled with transferred and translated listings, they all direct…
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Jeff Bezos adds $24 billion to his fortune
[whohit]Jeff Bezos adds $24 billion to his fortune[/whohit]This year may have brought about the largest health crisis in decades, but if you’re the owner of a business such as Amazon, you don’t need to worry. Though experts in finance across the world have predicted the recession brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown could be the…
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Amazon loses appeal against closure of French FBA warehouses
[whohit]Amazon loses appeal against closure of French FBA warehouses[/whohit]On Friday, Amazon lost their appeal in France against the government’s decision to keep their FBA warehouses closed due to health and safety concerns. A court in Paris upheld a ruling that Amazon must stop selling nonessential goods as it carries out a risk assessment on how…
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French courts rule to suspend operations in Amazon’s FBA centres
[whohit]French courts rule to suspend operations in Amazon’s FBA centres[/whohit]According to Amazon’s latest announcement, the French courts decided that FBA centres in the country have to suspend operations due to health and safety reasons. Here you can review the full notice in the Seller Central: