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Justin M.: Just thought I’d mention, I don’t mean to complain too much :) We love Amazon Sellers...
Christina: FBA doesn’t guarantee the blue box. I just had a problem with being beaten by a competitor by...
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Dorian: It’s definitely worth pursuing with O.F.T. If it’s illegal they’ll take it seriously...
Anon: Upon receiving our first warning back October 2011 we first contacted Amazon about there anti xompetitive...
Simon: Tried it last time with no joy, gonna give this another go.
Amazon & (FBA)
Amazon, An unbelievable marketplace.
Amazon was the marketplace that threw investors during the dot-com boom because they had a ten year plan, while all the others had a a two week plan if they were lucky. The Year-On-Year growth of Amazon is to be ‘awed’ at and unlike other marketplaces, you never annoy their customers, because its their customers and they’ll kick you off with no chance of getting back on again for upsetting their customers. In short, Matthew aspires to eventually working with Amazon directly as the UK CEO.
Matthew has vast experience with launching merchants onto the Amazon platforms, including ‘Fulfilment By Amazon‘ or more commonly known as FBA.
Matthew is an Amazon expert and can help you leverage this channel effectively. You can contact him on his dedicated Contact Matthew page and see how Matthew can help your business.
Fulfilment By Amazon Webinar: First steps to get started
Just received this in the email queue, defintely worth looking at for anyone whom is considering using FBA: We are pleased to invite you to this webinar where we will present best practices and tips to get started with Fulfilment by Amazon, including: – How to select the most suitable items in your inventory to convert to FBA – How to send your first shipment, avoiding the most common errors – How … [Full Article >> ]
Channel Advisors ‘Christmas Crunch Crap’ Guide
Hey, I can do alliteration too! CA’s ‘Christmas Crunch’ guide is out, see here for the direct link skipping the annoying spam boxes. Absolutely nothing new or nothing any serious seller would not being doing already, but a great bit of white PR to blind people with. OoO I can do that aswell! Disclosure: I am in no way affiliated with ‘Channel Advisor’, not even one of their sellers ( as none … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon.co.uk delivery becomes free for European customers
European buyers can now get items of their choice from millions of varieties in Amazon.co.uk free of delivery charge, if an order is over £25. People from 17 countries of Europe including Greece, Norway, Spain, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, San Marino, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal and Finland can buy without counting delivery charge. This move adds another degree of freedom to Amazon.co.uk European customers after extension of item inventory. During … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon Product Advertising API Oct 15th Deadline
For anyone else who uses the Amazon Product Advertising API, there are some major changes coming that have an October 15th deadline. The biggest alteration to the API is the removal of customer reviews from being sent, instead a link to the review on Amazon is returned. They are saying this is because of the high load of data being transferred and the keyword of the entire update is ‘Efficiency’, while … [Full Article >> ]
eBay V’s Amazon – Its a ‘Trust’ thing
Well after another quick read of the feed reader, there is an announcement that eBay is to spend a huge wedge of cash sending out some postcards, no not to promote products or sellers found on the site, but ‘Trust’. eBay really cannot shrug that carboot sales & miss-trust thing they have got in-ground. Its major difference between them[eBay] and Amazon. Amazon is thier marketplace and ‘allow’ other sellers to sell on thier marketplace, not … [Full Article >> ]
eBay Conspiracy Theory Overview : Part 1
Here are a few things for you to chew over, I’m not saying these are true, they’re probably utter rubbish, but… they do have enough in them to at least be partly true, right? Here are my eBay conspiracy theories, don’t expect too much detail yet, I’ll beef these out in further posts over the next few days: eBay does whatever it can to keep the seller ‘entertained’ on the eBay marketplace, so … [Full Article >> ]
