Not a pleasant message from a Chinese seller
I received this message from a Chinese seller at the weekend…
I checked with my account and it stated that I could list these through Prime… So I did… 100 of them.
I undercut the other seller and got the buy box and then got this message from the seller…
They then proceeded to buy all my units and they are all now just sitting pending payment ?
I am very very new to Prime so not 100% sure if I have done something wrong.
WARNING: DON’T SELL MY LISTING!!!
I have temporarily made your ASIN B082R6YVCH unsaleable.You must stop selling the ASIN within 24 hours in Amazon Seller Dashboard.If not, we will automatically purchase this ASIN and other ASINs which have a great influence on your sales amount in your store, report to Amazon that you are selling fake products, your right to sell will be removed and you will receive a serious warning from Amazon.We have 7 * 24 hours amazon anti - selling monitoring system, Don’t doubt our ability and determination for you. If you have a lot of inventory, you can sell and process the inventory again after 40 days.
Not a pleasant message from a Chinese seller
I received this message from a Chinese seller at the weekend…
I checked with my account and it stated that I could list these through Prime… So I did… 100 of them.
I undercut the other seller and got the buy box and then got this message from the seller…
They then proceeded to buy all my units and they are all now just sitting pending payment ?
I am very very new to Prime so not 100% sure if I have done something wrong.
WARNING: DON’T SELL MY LISTING!!!
I have temporarily made your ASIN B082R6YVCH unsaleable.You must stop selling the ASIN within 24 hours in Amazon Seller Dashboard.If not, we will automatically purchase this ASIN and other ASINs which have a great influence on your sales amount in your store, report to Amazon that you are selling fake products, your right to sell will be removed and you will receive a serious warning from Amazon.We have 7 * 24 hours amazon anti - selling monitoring system, Don’t doubt our ability and determination for you. If you have a lot of inventory, you can sell and process the inventory again after 40 days.
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
CCHOME is the brand on this listing - are your items the same brand ?
Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
It looks like you have listed against an ASIN that looks to be the same product - and probably is the same. You may not have realised that the ASIN is branded, so unless your items / invoice have the same branding you shouldn’t be on that listing.
Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
There are other listings for the same item, just with different branding - B07KP88QJS for example. It’s like a lot of listings on Amazon - generic items listed multiple times under a variety of brand names.
Best advice is likely to remove the items and take the hit. You could fight, but with invoices so old and likely a non-agreeable seller it’d be hard to prevail.
I believe they are - they have brand content and a registered TM.
Seller_amUAzjvL5uIzu
Im confused,the only seller on that listing is a UK Ltd company.
Seller_VRwbmKIZiEBEC
Happened to me recently too. Bought some items direct from a manufacturer in China. Joined a listing on Amazon and within a couple of days received a threatening message from the other Chinese seller stating they will put in a ‘counterfeit’ complain to Amazon if we did not remove all our stock from FBA. Didn’t believe they could do something like that and the next day those listings were blocked. We had to then contact the manufacturer who then helped negotiate with the other party (who was also a customer like us but has basically controlled the listing). They then retracted their complaint and we withdrew all our stock.
The Chinese know the system and they use it to their advantage. They literally have teams of people in China who get paid to disrupt accounts. When they say ‘Don’t doubt our ability and determination’ in your message, I believe them.
The saddest part in all this is Amazon does not care. A message like what you’ve received should be enough for Amazon to ban such threatening sellers but they won’t.
My advise, remove your stock while you can and sell it somewhere else. These Chinese sellers will make your life difficult.
Seller_bhSWqoVh7Pn98
Did you ask about CCHome before, as I remember that brand being an issue previously.
Amz seem to let Chinese Sellers get away with most things, but I would report as a violation, although nothing will happen in all probability, unless unsafe, whereas if we do something in the UK, usually all hel lets loose.
Is the item CE approved, if no label on the item itself, then report the listing as illegal to sell, as dangerous (remove your items first).
As a Buyer it is a pain to find items, as all identical items now have separate listings like E/B as all Chinese Sellers want to have only their Co on the listing, and Amz letting them get away with it.
Seller_whisHw4MtdUDu
It looks like you have listed under the same ASIN, which is branded. You should edit your own listing and shouldn’t be on the branded ASIN listing, the brand owner of this listing have the rights to report you as " counterfeit". This seller sent you a warning letter instead reporting to Amazon right away, if they did, your account will receive alert from Amazon, if i were you i would stop selling on this listing.
I don’t think it’s a good idea selling on other sellers listings, they put effort building their listings, suddently you just sell on their listings and steal their buyers and effort… Any seller will be angry at seeing this…
Seller_yOXMggIgIJUeI
you need to register your own brand, and private label the products…that way, you are protected.
At the moment, you are selling against someone else’s private label brand.
It’s partly the Chinese sellers fault, they should use a different brand to sell their wholesale products, and create a unique brand on the UK market.
As they currently are operating, it causes confusion for new sellers like yourself.
Buy the same product, label it with your own registered brand and that will resolve it for you.
Seller_bWOB0S7xVia9r
report to Amazon, you’ve got the message as proof
Seller_rZax50qrWcaoG
When a buyer adds an item to their shopping cart (pending) I think it removes the item from your quantity available, but as far a I’m aware it’s time limited so will cancel itself out unless they proceed with a purchase. No idea how long this lasts, maybe a couple of days so I would hang on 2/3 days to see if your stock becomes available again.
