Worse thing is amazon taking the buy box for pre-orders. I’ve lost count of the number of times, I’m the only seller and things are going good only for amazon pre orders to appear and take over the buy box.

Makes you realise how much of a win win situation they are in. They have all the sales data, make money regardless of whether they stock it or not. If they want too and see it’s profitable enough for them to take over the buy box then they will. I think that’s fair enough since it’s their playground but I think taking over the listing without committing to having any stock is simply not on.

If I could take pre orders and only buy when there’s no risk of me buying stock I can’t sell then I would clearly have an advantage over every one else. They are undercutting you without shipping anything until they have enough orders, and minimising the cashflow risk to them. No one can compete with amazon in purchasing power. They can even dictate prices to manufacturers.

I deal with it because they still disburse a good chunk of money to me every 2 weeks. I’m just complaining about them taking over buy boxes with pre orders for items they weren’t interested in stocking until you began selling enough of them to take an interest.