Tag: covid-19
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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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Etsy’s COVID-19 Mask Millionaires
As the novel coronavirus pandemic ravaged the world and severely damaged whole industries of business, it also helped crafty entrepreneurs grow their stores on Etsy. With the sudden unexpected demand for cloth face coverings, to make a fortune selling on Etsy, you needed three things. First, you needed to be familiar with the garment industry…
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Amazon is letting employees work from home until early January
[whohit]Amazon is letting employees work from home until early January[/whohit]Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many Amazon employees are now working from home, which directly affects the quality and availability of Seller Support and the timeliness of any responses to communication. Unfortunately, Amazon will allow employees to continue working remotely through January 8, 2021, and this…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…