Advertising sales outside of amazon
does anyone know if you can be punished for advertising sales away from amazon when selling a product i.e when packing my products placing a card or sticker on my items saying for future orders or bigger orders please call us or email us i know technically amazon only charge for a service but dont want a ban on my hands if im caught out
Advertising sales outside of amazon
does anyone know if you can be punished for advertising sales away from amazon when selling a product i.e when packing my products placing a card or sticker on my items saying for future orders or bigger orders please call us or email us i know technically amazon only charge for a service but dont want a ban on my hands if im caught out
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Seller_dvZI1vHpcX5H6
This is a violation of amazon’s policies. I wouldn’t recommend doing it as the risk of being caught seriously out way the potential additional sales.
That doesn’t mean that other sellers aren’t doing this type of thing but I haven’t bothered risking it.
Good luck if you give it a try though !
Seller_f5cnodyVjLD4S
Yes it can result in suspension or the removal of selling privileges.
Here are the guidelines regarding Prohibited Seller Activities and Actions.
Look under “Attempts to divert transactions or buyers.”
PS I’m not wishing you good luck, as you shouldn’t do it! 
Seller_dMbss28h0Lysl
I bought something I needed as an emergency mid December. They put in an A5 size leaflet telling me to go to their website to receive 10% off. Nothing really happened, I complained to them as well as Amazon no one really did anything.
Seller_dMbss28h0Lysl
My complaint was regarding misuse and violation of the policies where you are not allowed to redirect customers away from the Amazon site.
I complained to Amazon first and took pictures and attached them too. They did not understand me at all, one of the support staff told me “so you want to advertise, let me sign you up to a a sponsored ads webinar”.
So I just gave up and closed the live chat.
Seller_f5cnodyVjLD4S
We are all sellers on Amazon. I think you’ll agree that If buyers are being diverted to other sites it will affect everyone elses sales too.
No buyers = No sales. 
Seller_y0FMzZkd697wm
Why does anyone think its OK for sellers to drive customers away from Amazon. You were right to complain, what is wrong is Amazon did nothing about it.
Seller_ZPjajjMXjCNQH
a guaranteed suspension if you get caught
Seller_A2fiD9FX97Kto
OK just a question but i thought it was ok to have packaging with your website or brandname on the package…I guess the difference is emailing them or directly ststing they should shop directly on the website
Seller_2r0vyB5QmsuAD
What about contact details for technical support? Not trying to take sales away from Amazon but if there are any issues it is resolved quicker and easier over a phone call/email rather than raising a return case. Or in a FBM Prime order where a return is automatically accepted it could have been resolved with out occurring the return costs.
