Selling Items at 99p including postage - how?
I have received an email from Amazon saying one of my listings has been deactivated due to ‘Potential pricing error’
This is for a lightshade that I have had listed for a couple of years that I sell for £6.99 inc postage. However, no matter what I do Amazon refuse to re-activate it again.
On investigation I have found another seller of the item selling it at 99p including postage. Considering the item has to be sent as a Small Parcel that basically means they are losing money on the sale (and that is before VAT, Amazon fees, etc are considered).
So basically I cannot get my listing reactivated as Amazon reckon I am selling it at too high a price and the seller who is selling at 99p must be losing several pound on every sale.
Good job I have other marketplaces I can sell it at without the draconian measures Amazon enforce.
Selling Items at 99p including postage - how?
I have received an email from Amazon saying one of my listings has been deactivated due to ‘Potential pricing error’
This is for a lightshade that I have had listed for a couple of years that I sell for £6.99 inc postage. However, no matter what I do Amazon refuse to re-activate it again.
On investigation I have found another seller of the item selling it at 99p including postage. Considering the item has to be sent as a Small Parcel that basically means they are losing money on the sale (and that is before VAT, Amazon fees, etc are considered).
So basically I cannot get my listing reactivated as Amazon reckon I am selling it at too high a price and the seller who is selling at 99p must be losing several pound on every sale.
Good job I have other marketplaces I can sell it at without the draconian measures Amazon enforce.
46 replies
Seller_NoLYurmb006tq
Most likely flat packed one I had one arrive like that once but it was still bigger than a large envelope was flat and just stuck together with velcro metal was clapped and opened up
Seller_zRxGmTYygCKIT
The seller could be having a clear-out of old stock.
Get rid of it cheaply as you have tons sat on the shelves and need more space for better selling stock.
If below your cost, and you sell on other marketplaces, technically you can buy the item off the seller, and sell it elsewhere? (Not on Amazon as you wont have invoices)
Seller_FkfPzn8kFMbY3
You can dispute the error with Amazon as long as you can prove to them your price is fair.
Break it down to them like this…
Item cost = xxx (send a copy of Invoice as evidence)
Postage = xxx
Packaging = xxx
Amazon Fees = xxx
Total profit = peanuts
Seller_gOzZ4ehojzaW0
I would not think it impossible that some seller’s can and will sustain to sell at a loss in the hope it puts smaller competitors out of business. Then once others give up and leave they will raise prices and get all the buyers.
Seller_uIDiKi35gKF4C
I had the same problem with a dvd it went on for about a month at be deactivated due to being over priced when in actual fact ir was almost £40 below what they wanted in America for the same dvd they are wanting us to give more and more details to them but they don’t update there site to include new postage as well as check where on the site the items are because when I typed in the name of the film it came up straight away
Seller_DQUCTWPjSm8fp
If you look at your inventory you will see a link to fix potential pricing error. This allows you to set the lowest and highest prices (any you want). and the listing will be reactivated.
Seller_vmXKMgVCpmLVt
Buy all the other seller’s stock, as you probably can’t buy for that…
Seller_TH9DATW06Doc2
What’s the number of feedback of the person selling it at a loss for 99p? If they are new then I doubt they will be around for long.
Seller_8JEK14p9uQTTp
So, when we add new listings, try to avoid the big gap price between the products in one group.
Seller_bdSdLjti4IugQ
I believe the answer is Royal Mail’s postage system done on average weight per bag. Our rep pitched us this but as most of our items are a similar size and weight it didn’t work for us but if you can sell items in volume at cost price or even a small loss it works out…
Basically you fill a bag with the post… let’s say 100 items. You then take the weight of each item and add them together and divide by number of items to get an average weight. So if your selling an item for 99p, say a headphone adaptor, and it weighs 25g and you sell 90 of them. Then you take a really heavy item like a set of books that weighs 700g and you sell 10 of them you’d have 2,250g of adaptors and 7000g of books. So you’d have a total of 9250 grams or 92.5g per item. So the whole bag goes down as under 100g in terms of what you pay as its based on the average. I’m not sure what they do about sizes… It’s just about getting volumes into the system and balancing the weight out so for items that are heavy and earn decent money you don’t pay high postage on…
