What is going on today with Amazon? I am scared to send in products.
Just noticed i had a lot of stranded units that popped up today. 55 of my listings have now either became Restricted ASIN's and or the product page deleted with multiple sellers on the listings for years (home good like towels). Now hot wheels have become Dangerous goods purchased through a distributor, have a few of those pages deleted as well. Better Homes and Gardens items all became Restricted. So now what will I be able to sell? It has been a constant battle year after year selling my Private label products that Amazon is never happy with the Doc's I submit. I do not even want to get started on how they are now taking almost 60% from us in fees, shipping and low inventory increases as well. I just do not understand how this company went downhill so fast. I use to be proud to sell on amazon and had nothing but great things to say about them. Now they are my most hated business and I do not even want to get a tooth pick from them anymore.
What is going on today with Amazon? I am scared to send in products.
Just noticed i had a lot of stranded units that popped up today. 55 of my listings have now either became Restricted ASIN's and or the product page deleted with multiple sellers on the listings for years (home good like towels). Now hot wheels have become Dangerous goods purchased through a distributor, have a few of those pages deleted as well. Better Homes and Gardens items all became Restricted. So now what will I be able to sell? It has been a constant battle year after year selling my Private label products that Amazon is never happy with the Doc's I submit. I do not even want to get started on how they are now taking almost 60% from us in fees, shipping and low inventory increases as well. I just do not understand how this company went downhill so fast. I use to be proud to sell on amazon and had nothing but great things to say about them. Now they are my most hated business and I do not even want to get a tooth pick from them anymore.
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Dominic_Amazon
Hi @Seller_iwGyJUWC4pcve,
Dominic from Amazon here, would like to help with the issues you raised. Have you submitted cases for those? If so please provide me with the case id.
Best,
Dominic
Seller_OD3iIF4Tw1zZo
It's horrible..I cross my fingers every time I buy new inventory to send it. Spent 3k on a product that I was ok to sell, then all of a sudden it has a transparency code and I need to send pics..the product doesnt have transparency codes. Amazon is also selling..tempted to buy one just to see if theirs has it
Seller_kC7s3UAjl0dUN
The changes this year have been absolutely horrible to deal with to say the least. I wish you luck doesn't sound like a fun situation...
Seller_gDktQSA1WFw4Y
Amazon just removed 6 of my best selling listings which I sell for over 5 years. because they are infringing on the intellectual property rights.
why the hell my over 5 years old listings are suddenly infringing on the intellectual property rights!!!
Seller_J23PgtHb8GFaK
Yes I am scared to sell products on Amazon also, I have slowed down my wholesale purchases as I have been ungated and bought authentic products. However, twice I have chosen a price about 20 cents lower than the trademark owner and twice two different trademark owners reported me for counterfeit without buy. Now I have about 70 units stranded. This is quite absurd because there are about 40 sellers on one of the listings, but amazon is allowing trademark owners to report copyright infringement if you choose a lower price than them. I don't see the point of reselling other brands products if I don't have a trademark or if they are selling on Amazon also. If Amazon only wants the trademark owner selling their listing, then this makes sense giving them this power.
Seller_9vW7z7iS199uk
If you are buying items from a retail store, they are NOT safe to send into FBA. You will risk getting them restricted and suspended at any time. If you are an authorized distributor and have invoices from a company that matches everything, then you SHOULD be ok, but even then sometimes you can run into problems.
Seller_RH5P8CqOqaNrO
Similar, (serious problem not resolved)
We have title issue on 5 asins we listed 10 years ago, and in January they removed the product description from the titles and will not restore! Worse, our competitors have their product description in their titles.
They removed our product description from the titles and refuse to put them back! Sales have nearly stopped since the week they did this to us.
Seller_iwGyJUWC4pcve
I would like to post a pic but can't. Can some one explain how yesterday sales ordered 165.44 -79% 13 units ordered -60% but the kicker is FBA Fees $106.75 Just to think I was doing selling over 230k a year since 2018. Can not stay long like this, and wonder how bad I will get with the new fees. Do not think the new shipping fees are included in this either. After taking out my buy cost, I am in the hole. I need my $500-$700 days back just to stay afloat and do not even think that will be possible any longer. I wish to god that amazon's numbers will be the worst they ever had this quarter and year.
Seller_QD2EaZq89yfSW
I've been selling on this platform for around 5 years and have stopped adding new products this yr, and most likely going forward. We had a listing suspended recently for violating a trademark on a listing where we own the trademark/brand registry. Amazon still cant tell us how were violating the trademark of another competitor that initiated the complaint. Seller support is clueless, and tells me to submit my trademark paperwork since they cant find any violations of the competitor on the listing.
I have no confidence to invest in new private label products anymore and will just continue selling the products I've been selling for years. Cant risk them suspending a listing and then losing the inventory in fba due to confiscation. Its takes a lot of investment to build up a listing from scratch and Amazon can tear with down without any warning for any reason they deem necessary, even if you're innocent of breaking any rules/laws).
