Tag: coronavirus
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Participate in a new survey by Amazon “About Your COVID-19 Experience“
In a recent wave of surveys by Amazon Corporate, the company is asking their sellers regarding their experience with trading on the platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. Make sure to insert your comments, which will be reviewed by Amazon executives and may improve things for everyone. My suggestion is to mention that account deactivations due…
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Amazon releases their COVID-19 statistics, revealing that more than 19,000 workers got infected
Amazon recently released comprehensive data on the spread of the coronavirus among its employees, disclosing that more than 19,000 workers, or 1.44% of the total, contracted the virus. Between 1.March and 19.September 2020 Amazon counted 19,816 presumed or confirmed Covid-19 cases across its roughly 1.37 million Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees in the U.S. The information…
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Amazon releases their COVID-19 statistics, revealing that more than 19,000 workers got infected
Amazon recently released comprehensive data on the spread of the coronavirus among its employees, disclosing that more than 19,000 workers, or 1.44% of the total, contracted the virus. Between 1.March and 19.September 2020 Amazon counted 19,816 presumed or confirmed Covid-19 cases across its roughly 1.37 million Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees in the U.S. The information…
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Protesters marched outside Jeff Bezos’ luxury mansion to demand the Amazon billionaire pay more taxes and take responsibility for the 20,000 workers infected by COVID-19
Protesters marched to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Beverly Hills mansion to demand the company address environmental and labor issues that unraveled during the pandemic. The event saw a coalition of labor and environmental activists gathered at Will Rogers Memorial Park on Sunset Boulevard to decry Bezos and his multi-billion dollar e-commerce empire during ‘The Wrong…
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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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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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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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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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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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FBA Items Now Completely Suppressed From View
[whohit]FBA Items Now Completely Suppressed From View[/whohit]Following several changes in Amazon’s algorithm which were imposed as a reaction to the global pandemic, the company now started completely hiding some FBA items from view when a customer accesses it’s detail page. FBA offers by third party sellers are simply suppressed and won’t show up at all…
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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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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:
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Amazon Temporarily Ends Seller Account Suspensions due to poor performance
[whohit]Amazon Temporarily Ends Seller Account Suspensions due to poor performance[/whohit]Following our several articles in which we criticized Amazon for failing to provide any support or protection to it’s third party sellers during the difficult coronavirus situation and suggesting them to postpone account deactivations, the company surprisingly complied with our requests, announcing today that suspensions will…
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10 TIPS How to Improve Your Sales During The Coronavirus Crisis!
[whohit]10 TIPS How to Improve Your Sales During The Coronavirus Crisis![/whohit]As the world is struggling with the coronavirus crisis and people’s lives and businesses are affected by strict measures enforced by their governments or marketplaces, many e-commerce sellers are finding themselves in a difficult situation – some failing to make money or grow their sales.…
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Nothing to do on Friday? Join Amazon’s webinar about COVID-19!
[whohit]Nothing to do on Friday? Join Amazon’s webinar about COVID-19![/whohit]As the whole world is struggling with coronavirus lockdown and strict measures are being implemented by governments of affected countries, third party sellers are fighting to save their livelihoods. But the common recommendation for everyone is to avoid social contacts and stay home. Amazon is offering…
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Planning to restock FBA inventory? Forget about it!
[whohit]Planning to restock FBA inventory? Forget about it![/whohit]These days, millions of Amazon’s third party sellers are unsuccessfully trying to create new shipments for their inventory to be sent into FBA warehouses. However, as they are attempting to do this, they are discouraged by this red message: Everything is a consequence of Amazon’s new policy prioritizing…
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Amazon announces Two Week FBA Storage Fee Waiver due to COVID-19
[whohit]Amazon announces Two Week FBA Storage Fee Waiver due to COVID-19[/whohit]Today, after significant criticism from the Amazon Seller Community, including our Seller Union, Amazon finally announced that they are going to waive the FBA storage fees for two weeks as a small compensation for the series of coronavirus related measures negatively affecting third party seller’s…
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Amazon acknowledges VAT postponement by EU countries
[whohit]Amazon acknowledges VAT postponement by EU countries[/whohit]Today, Amazon published an announcement where they mentioned how European countries took measures to help businesses cope with the difficult situation caused by coronavirus pandemic by postponing the requirement to pay VAT. Here you can review the full announcement:
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Amazon’s advice to third party sellers during the COVID-19 crisis? Cancel orders and deactivate listings!
[whohit]Amazon’s advice to third party sellers during the COVID-19 crisis? Cancel orders and deactivate listings![/whohit]As we presented in our two prior articles published on 26.March and 27.March, during the continued global pandemic coronavirus crisis, Amazon failed to offer it’s third party sellers any help or support which would lesser the negative impact on their accounts.…
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Amazon extending return window for all FBM orders in Europe to three months
[whohit]Amazon extending return window for all FBM orders in Europe to three months[/whohit]As we already announced in our yesterday’s article, during the current difficult period affected by global coronavirus pandemic, Amazon failed to offer it’s third party sellers any protection to lessen the negative impact on their metrics. In addition, instead of offering help and…
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Amazon Lending loan payments postponed until May due to coronavirus
[whohit]Amazon Lending loan payments postponed until May due to coronavirus[/whohit]Good news! After all the negativity in today’s world, at least the sellers who took loans from Amazon have a reason to smile. Amazon is postponing the repayments until May due to coronavirus. Here you can review the full message sent to third party merchants:
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No protection offered to third party sellers by Amazon during the coronavirus crisis
As the entire world stands united to fight against the global coronavirus pandemic, Amazon failed to offer any measures to help sellers protect their accounts. [whohit]No protection offered to third party sellers by Amazon during the coronavirus crisis[/whohit]Merchants are encouraged to place their stores on Holiday Settings or increase the Handling Time, which is a…
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Amazon to waive April Long Term Storage Fees due to Covid-19
Today Amazon announced their intention to waive long term storage fees in some of their global marketplaces due to coronavirus. [whohit]Amazon to waive April Long Term Storage Fees due to Covid-19[/whohit]At the same time, removal orders will be delayed. Here you can review the full announcement of 24.March:
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The world is preparing for a global coronavirus lockdown
[whohit]The world is preparing for a global coronavirus lockdown[/whohit]This time last month, in the second half of February few people would be able to imagine what will soon become out of the 21th century world as they knew it. Developed countries or even entire continents are closing their borders to ban international travel, people are…
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Amazon suspending FBA shipment creation in the US and EU due to coronavirus fears
[whohit]Amazon suspending FBA shipment creation in the US and EU due to coronavirus fears[/whohit]According to the latest announcement, third party sellers on the platform will be temporarily unable to create new FBA shipments for specific categories of products until 5.April 2020 due to coronavirus fears. Here you can review the full announcement: Amazon also provided…
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Global pandemic and online marketplaces
[whohit]Global pandemic and online marketplaces[/whohit]If you are an Amazon seller thinking about making quick and easy money on global pandemy which is now spreading across the world, read this article based on New York Times report. They interviewed multiple merchants who are now struggling to sell their merchandise which was acquired with the sole purpose…
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Amazon’s Coronavirus update in the Seller Central
[whohit]Amazon’s Coronavirus update in the Seller Central[/whohit]This week, the company displayed the following alert to merchants, giving them instructions how to manage their accounts in case their business is affected by the virus.