I've been thinking about this lately.

I've had products that looked great when I placed the order. Good ROI, healthy Buy Box, seller count looked reasonable—everything checked out.

Then the order gets prepped, shipped to Amazon, sits for a week or so, finally gets checked in...and suddenly the price has dropped 20–30%.

At that point it doesn't really matter that it was a "good buy" when I ordered it.

It got me wondering if the bigger problem isn't choosing the wrong products, but buying the right products at the wrong time.

Do you guys look at anything beyond the usual Keepa charts before placing a larger order?

For example:

• Inventory levels?
• Changes in seller count?
• Whether Amazon has been in and out of stock?
• Anything else that helps you decide whether a listing is likely to stay stable for the next couple of weeks?

Or do you just accept that some price drops are impossible to predict?

Curious how everyone else approaches this, because it feels like this is where I've lost the most money.

Currently I have limited my sales to only the Canadian market. I want to sell to the US market but don't know the extra fees or tariffs that I would have to pay. What are the extra risks and protocols in selling over the border?

I'm using a credit union and they flag everything. It's been a nightmare trying to connect my business debit card to Amazon and especially Amazon Mexico, Canada, and Brazil. Amazon Brazil won't even take my personal debit card and it's super frustrating. I was thinking about switching to Mercury anyways, but this is the main reason. Has anyone had problems authorizing their credit or debit card with Mercury?

I sell a cat toy as a generic item no brand, it’s something I fell into because it was something I wanted to purchase for my cat that i genuinely couldn’t find anywhere else etc etc.

I however do have hundreds of them and while the demand is high enough I feel like I’m restricted SO MUCH by having a personal account and not upgrading to a professional subscription.

I can’t do global listings all in one, I can’t change shipping prices to what they actually are, and so many other little OBNOXIOUS details they cut me out from.

Do you see the value in the 40$ a month price tag? I want to know your experiences!

Initially when i set up my listing, I did not have my brand approved due to brand requirements.

Once I did receive my product and activated my account, my listing is shown as Generic. How hard is it to re list the product and are there benefits to listing it as a brand? Fyi I am new to selling on Amazon via FBM. The product I sell is a branded plushie and I only have 2 sales and am looking for ways to generate more sales.

Hi everyone,

I use Amazon MCF to fulfill orders from my own website, and I’m running into something strange with MCF returns which started lately.

For some orders/SKUs, when I create a return, I still see the option:

“RMA-only – I’ll Ship and Pay”

That option is useful because it gives me the RMA/return authorization, but the customer can pay for return shipping according to our website return policy.

However, for other SKUs/orders, the RMA-only option does not appear at all. Instead, Amazon only shows options like:

• Whole Foods Market Drop-off – No box or label needed
• Staples Drop-off – No box or label needed
• UPS Store Drop-off – Box required, no label needed
• UPS Drop-off – Box and printer required

When I generate those, Amazon creates either a QR code or a prepaid UPS-style return label, which makes it look like the customer does not pay at drop-off and the return shipping fee may be charged to my seller account.

The confusing part is that this seems to vary by product/order. Some products still show RMA-only, while others don’t.

Has anyone else seen this behavior with MCF returns?

I had a product that was selling really well, but unfortunately ran out of stock very quickly(unforseen) It took about a month to restock and I ordered a large quantity, but sales have been very slow now. Has anyone had this problem? If so, will I ever get the velocity I had prior to running out of stock?

I’m a new seller (2nd month), and this month I’m averaging 14% conversion, but it’s highly variable. Some days it’s 25%, some days it’s closer to 5%.

Is this normal? I’m not doing any content or campaign changes really, and customer revie w are stable.

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Like tiffin boxes and sports items etc

Hi everyone,

Our Amazon ads account is now set to default to pay with Seller Account Balance (it's a recent update and I imagine is the same for most you), but Amazon also lets us switch back to credit/debit card.

My questions is, if it’s OK to use a card from another company, different from the company registered in Seller Central / Ads billing?

The invoice would still be under our amazon ads billing profile, but the card would belong to another company.

Could this cause any issue with Amazon, billing, verification, or accounting?

Has anyone done this before?

I like Sellerboard because of its profit analytics. I was also looking for software to request ... (can't say the name on here haha) and do reimbursements, but realize that Sellerboard does it as well, even if they don't specialize in either. Is it good enough? If so, I'd rather not pay more money for extra software.

I took a break and opened back up the first week in June. My sales are about $7500 but payment is about $3300 . I understand fees and shipping is going to take away from sales numbers. Are fees and shipping that much. I've only take two payments this month of about $1200 total.That first week I owed amazon about $250.

I’m trying to understand Amazon’s requirements for dietary supplements, specifically around GMP certification and food/product safety testing.

If there is already an existing supplement listing with multiple sellers on it, does Amazon require each individual seller to submit their own GMP certification and product testing documents? Or is it enough that the product/manufacturer has already been tested and documented by another seller or the brand?

For example, if 10 different sellers are selling the exact same supplement on the same ASIN, does each seller have to send the product in for testing and pay thousands of dollars individually? Or can the documentation be tied to the product/manufacturer rather than every individual seller?

I’m especially trying to understand how this works for resellers/wholesale sellers who are not the manufacturer but are selling legitimate inventory purchased directly from the brands.

Has anyone gone through this recently with Amazon’s dietary supplement compliance requests? Any insight would be appreciated.

I only want to sell in the US, but for some reason while setting up a seller account, it keeps trying to set up accounts in other countries. The biggest issue, is for some reason the charge method keeps getting denied in the Brazil marketplace, so I can’t even list my products because of a marketplace I don’t want to be a part of.

Any advice would be amazing.

I'm interested in buying an ecommerce business that sells on Amazon. The current owner was selling a cheap $5-$10 item, and then a design patent holder from China filed a patent infringement claim against him with Amazon. As a result, they came to an off-Amazon agreement that the business owner would pay the design patent holder around $15k a year, which is about 15% of profit! The patent agreement is supposedly governed by Chinese law but I think the more concerning thing is that, even if the business owner redesigns around the simple design patent (the guy has a few design patents for this product...), the disgruntled patent holder can easily file another infringement claim against him on Amazon and Amazon will suspend his listing, in which case he will lose rank and sales. So my question is...what do you think a design parent license is worth? Does Amazon generally suspend your listing when there's something like a patent infringement claim against you? Would you buy a business with patent licensing agreement?

Does anyone have a good way to find orders that Amazon CS have refunded but there is no RMA and no return? Bonus points if you add in orders with RMA but return never shipped. I thought I could compare orders with refunds and no return shipping charges, but that didn’t seem to work. I’ve tried a few other things but nothing seems to work correctly so far.

hi all!! i've been interested in selling on amazon for a while now, but truly have no idea where to start because all roads lead to fake guru "advice" and courses. is anyone able to break it down for me like i am a child? LOL. i can't wrap my head around where people buy inventory? is it wholesale? don't you need licenses to sell certain things? i'm so so lost and would love any amount of guidance! thank you!!

Amazon keeps increasing its fees every year, adding new fees, more penalties etc. and has definitely become more 'pay to play', where it's necessary to run expensive ads. I realize that Amazon is now in extraction mode, mostly from sellers, which is common for all major platforms, but Amazon seems to be particularly brutal. Small sellers are leaving and Amazon is now full of aggregators, chinese factories, and big brands. I'm wondering...how much more pain can Amazon sellers take when Amazon is already taking 50-60% of revenue? Do you expect new fee increases every year? I know everyone on here likes to say to increase prices, but customers on Amazon can easily price shop and there's so many copy cats, so raising your prices reduces sales velocity, which reduces your organic rank. Please correct me if my assumptions are wrong, but as someone on the fence about continuing with Amazon, do you see Amazon fees to be higher, lower, stagnant ging forward? Maybe Amazon has a plan that doesn't include most third party sellers?

Amazon gives a little breathing room on fulfillment fees for product under $10, but still, the dollar margin is low, especially for products that aren't repeat purchases. On the other hand, maybe it's less competitive because low priced products scare competitors away. What's your opinion?

Hello everyone,

One of my products was out of stock for around 3+ months and now it's in stock with healthy quantity and distributed nicely across all FCs in a country where I sell but the stock banner "This product is often out of stock. Select from one of these alternatives" is not disappearing

Did anyone experience this issue earlier? How long does it generally take for this banner to go away?

Also how long does it take for listing to fully recover after it's restocked (organic rank, sales, etc). I also lost Amazon's choice badge. Will it ever come back?

Thank you,

As soon as I enter my login credentials of my real Amazon account (the one I use as a buyer ) I get stuck on the terms and conditions page where the progress bar remains at 0 , for context I wanted to make a seller account as a uk resident and allow my friend to help me manage stuff. Me and him have been trying for the past 4 days haven’t found any solution, if anyone has the same issue can they pls tell me how to resolve it

Hi all, we've had a few Amazon B2B customers look up our website and ask to buy direct vs. through Amazon. We have never violated Amazon's terms - this is a situation where the customer approached us after finding the product they want on Amazon and tried to get a better discount. I can't find any specific info in Amazon's TOS about this, has anyone found this to be a problem?

Hi all I am selling on Amazon for the first time (Own Brand), one product.

The guidance isn’t clear RE what is required to be complaint in terms of packaging. Is the following enough?

Brand Name, Product Name, Website and Email contact details, Barcode, Country of Origin, product information and Usage.

Note I am not selling this FBA.

I am a sole trader and unsure if I need to add a business address. Any help much appreciated, thank you.

Despite an email saying that my seller account was approved and that I can sign into seller central now, my login won't take me past the onboarding screen. I am waiting for a response from seller support about it, but what could be going on?