Tag: third party sellers
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Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold by third party sellers
[whohit]Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold by third party sellers[/whohit]On Thursday, the California Fourth District Court of Appeals decided that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by a defective replacement laptop battery that caught fire and gave a woman third-degree burns. The woman, Angela Bolger, alleges she bought the laptop…
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Bonanza introduces it’s Seller Support staff to public
[whohit]Bonanza introduces it’s Seller Support staff to public[/whohit]If you had the belief that staff working with marketplace sellers has to be secretive and refrain from exposing any parts of their privacy, then you need to see Bonanza. The platform which doesn’t know any metrics or dashboards monitoring defects always treated their partners in the most…
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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 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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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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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…