From the Editor – January 12, 2020
Online sellers are under constant pressure to lower prices and offer free shipping, while at the same time their own costs are rising. New USPS rates go into effect at the end of the month […]
Tag: Amazon fees
One Way Amazon Sellers Can Mitigate FBA Fee Hike
There’s one way Amazon sellers can help mitigate the FBA fee hike announced on Friday and going into effect in February: sell an item no one else is selling on the marketplace. Easier said than […]
Amazon Tweaks European Selling Fees
Amazon has tweaked selling fees in European markets. UK publication Jewellery Focus included the following statement from Amazon about the impact on jewelry and watches, two of the categories impacted by the fee change: “This […]
Amazon Offers Discounted Pricing for Selling Internationally
Amazon is giving sellers an incentive to expand their business internationally by offering a $39.99/monthly plan to reach customers in 10 countries. Some sellers expressed pleasure at the savings. However, many sellers appeared wary of […]
New Amazon Fees Take Effect This Week
Amazon fee changes are rolling out beginning this week, and there is good news and bad news. As we reported in December, it will become cheaper to sell in certain categories (via referral fee reductions), […]
Amazon Sellers Clean up Inventory to Avoid LTS Fees
Amazon sellers have begun prepping now in order to avoid or minimize FBA Long Term Storage fees (LTS). The next Amazon FBA twice-yearly “inventory cleanup” is scheduled for February 15, 2018. Units that have been […]
Amazon Raises Fees for Mexico Marketplace
Amazon is raising the costs of selling on its Mexico marketplace. It sent the following letter to sellers to remind them that promotional referral fees will change effective February 5, 2018. In some categories, the […]
Sellers Shocked by New Amazon Brand Fee
Amazon sellers are reeling from the news that in some cases, they must now pay $1,000 (and sometimes more) to get approval to sell branded items on the marketplace – that’s $1,000 per brand approval. […]
Amazon Fees to Rise for Handmade Sellers in August
Amazon sellers who sell on its new Handmade marketplace received good news and bad news regarding fees this week. First the good news: Amazon is extending its promotional monthly subscription fee waiver through the end […]
Amazon Sellers Wary of Yet Another Fee Change
Amazon made a second announcement this week impacting third-party merchant fees: on Thursday, it said it will change the way it calculates something called High-Volume Fees. The sellers who fear they are the hardest hit […]