Tag: Fulfilled by Amazon
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Amazon is Now Asking Sellers to Register for Fulfilled by Amazon and keeping the Fulfillment Method Gated
Recently, Amazon started asking some third party merchants on their platform to register for Fulfilled by Amazon in a separate registration application, which keeps the FBA option greyed out and disabled if the sellers fails to proceed and obtain approval. This applies to all Seller Accounts with no FBA history, including old, established stores. When…
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Meltable inventory restrictions start April 15, 2021
Starting 15.April 2021, Amazon will no longer be accepting shipments containing meltable inventory into their FBA warehouses. “Meltable” refers to all heat-sensitive products, including but not limited to chocolate, gummies, and select jelly- and wax-based products. such as chocolate. If you cannot move your products before the deadline, submit a removal order. All products in fulfillment…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…