Getting started is impossible!
After reading the negative feedback from sellers overall within Amazon I was prepared for some issues. With that said the complete unwillingness to assist with product approvals is mystifying.
This is a completely flawed system/process:
- Find products that you are allowed to sell initially (literally only a few obscure beauty items that can only be found in liquidation and/or overstock/discount situations)
- If you cannot find the items you have approval for, go out and find/purchase other items that are listed on Amazon (10 items) and provide the documentation to Amazon
- Amazon declines the approval and asks for more detailed supply chain information, knowing this information likely does not exist and certainly would not be available to the seller.
- The seller has now purchased items at Amazon's request that they cannot get approval for.
- The seller creates workarounds within Amazon so they can list the products and not be out of pocket. Or the seller leaves Amazon, disgruntled, to a platform where they can sell the products and have a much better chance of being successful.
Seriously, this has to be the most a$$ backwards way of doing anything? How do you get started and improve your store health when you aren't allowed to sell even the items you have already purchased to meet Amazon's requirements?
Is the intent for new seller's to fail?
Getting started is impossible!
After reading the negative feedback from sellers overall within Amazon I was prepared for some issues. With that said the complete unwillingness to assist with product approvals is mystifying.
This is a completely flawed system/process:
- Find products that you are allowed to sell initially (literally only a few obscure beauty items that can only be found in liquidation and/or overstock/discount situations)
- If you cannot find the items you have approval for, go out and find/purchase other items that are listed on Amazon (10 items) and provide the documentation to Amazon
- Amazon declines the approval and asks for more detailed supply chain information, knowing this information likely does not exist and certainly would not be available to the seller.
- The seller has now purchased items at Amazon's request that they cannot get approval for.
- The seller creates workarounds within Amazon so they can list the products and not be out of pocket. Or the seller leaves Amazon, disgruntled, to a platform where they can sell the products and have a much better chance of being successful.
Seriously, this has to be the most a$$ backwards way of doing anything? How do you get started and improve your store health when you aren't allowed to sell even the items you have already purchased to meet Amazon's requirements?
Is the intent for new seller's to fail?
8 replies
Seller_7LrAV0m5llaI7
If you are a legit business, have approval from brand, and purchased your products from a brand authorized wholesale distributor, then you would have no problem with approval.
It sounds like you are trying to do arbitrage.
Seller_7LrAV0m5llaI7
Arbitrage is actually against Amazon policies. Can you show us where you saw in their policies it is permitted?
Seller_zpp38Yxc5sTZ8
You are wrong. I started not long ago and things are actually going just fine! Try different products other than going for only one niche like beauty products.
Seller_5wa3H6oQIsRfp
You're doing arbitrage, you're not solving any real problem, in fact you are an annoyance to companies like ours who actually purchase from the brand and help them with their amazon sales channel management. we have a whole team dedicated to taking sellers like you off listings.
you should really reconsider this model before you begin. even if you do get past amazon's gate and restriction policies, once you start selling brands that have no idea who you are, on their listings, especially if the items are coming from other retail channels and not distribution channels, you are on a time clock to getting your account suspended which can be very costly. just fyi
