Book sales for the last 7 days
For the last 7 days book sales have died (for me). I cannot quite fathom the extent of this fall. Any one has any insights?
Book sales for the last 7 days
For the last 7 days book sales have died (for me). I cannot quite fathom the extent of this fall. Any one has any insights?
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Seller_BS5lg2keRs2QO
Not really, Have had great sales over the last week and Monday was the best day I’ve had.
Seller_19xPhE8YgkmxW
Hello Simones-books
My sales for the past week have also been unusually poor - but I tried assessing new stock this morning and Amazon’s searches were rediculous - even though the books were for sale here it took many searches to find them! It’s not surprising customer can’t order our books if they can’t find them on the system!
Added to which, I’ve had 1 sale for a book where there is another with exactly the same ISBN (and of course the other one is the one the Buyer wanted) and another where Amazon only lists the ISBN as a Hardback and i have the trade paper… !
Frustrating
Hope it improves soon for all of us
Best
Brian
Seller_QVpjrN1BsybDT
My book sales have virtually died over the last 2 weeks. The nonsense of Amazon’s search engine doesn’t help but that has been in place for years and doesn’t explain this recent decline. I also don’t think the easing of lockdown is the explaimation
Seller_vFcATxxHHmIR8
July is generally the quietest month for books. It should pick up in the coming months. I like to have text books in my inventory ready for school season.
After the crazy lockdown period, my book sales have dropped off too. Like you, I’ve been struggling to source so sending nothing in. I have now managed to make a deal with a local charity shop, so I’m helping them and they’re helping me.
How many books are in your inventory?
Also - pay attention to your inventory performance index. Amazon are saying it needs to be above 500 by September. I’m currently sat on 437
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
An example here of the malign influence of dropshippers and why some books will probably never sell on Amazon.
Looking up a certain book via author/title search, this was the only match:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Wine-Label-Publisher-Hardcover/dp/B00SLRWPF2
An obvious overpriced dupe.
The original is here, but it’s almost impossible to find without knowing the ISBN:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0711204829
just one random example amongst millions.
All of this makes a lie of Amazon’s commitment to low prices and quality service.
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
Another apparent glitch - the Amazon buying app on my phone no longer gives exact matches, even when using the barcode scanner.
It now seems to use the words in the title of the scanned barcode to give you a load of near (and far) matches based on keyword search, in every department except books…!
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
Another one here:
Single search result for ‘Konner trouble’ and it’s a bogus duplicate, of course:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Medicine-Written-Publisher-Hardcover/dp/B00SLT1W5O
‘Hidden’ original
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Medicine-Melvin-Konner/dp/0563363770
Given that the dupes in these examples are wildly overpriced and also lacking images and other details…why do they get prominence in search results?
I could go on all day with similar examples but it would be nice to hear from a mod how/why this happens.
With the ‘merge’ function apparently now out-of-action, how are we supposed to tidy the catalogue?
If Amazon’s official position is that it’s fine with certain sellers listing millions of overpriced, poorly duplicated bogus/redundant ASINs, it would be nice to have a mod place it on the record…
Seller_8F3iyM3Gg54YP
On another thread https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/listing-quality-dashboard/654504/3
I found this useful link
I wonder if it’s been flooded with complaints!!
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
A few possible explanations spring to mind.
One is that Amazon designers are completely incompetent and unable to maintain a decent book catalogue. Seems unlikely.
Another is that non-Kindle books that Amazon itself does not stock are very low priority.
A third is that Amazon is deliberately ‘deprecating’ the used and OOP book market section of marketplace and slowly turning away sellers (along with buyers) of such books.
Maybe it’s a combination of all three…or something else entirely?
Whatever the reason, I think it’s been going on too long for us to expect a happy resolution.
Amazon’s lack of action against bogus duplicate dropshippers speaks volumes…
