Amazon is raising fees for fulfilling sellers’ off-Amazon orders, called Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF), and it is also modifying its size tiers. Current rates can be found on this page, and the new rates will take effect on February 5, 2024. Read more
Amazon will charge sellers who use its FBA fulfillment services a new “inbound placement service fee” when shipping inventory to its US warehouses next year, it announced on Tuesday. But sellers in China who use Amazon Global Logistics (AGL) to Read more
Sellers will have to conform to new product attribute requirements when creating listings for all products except those in the media, digital and handmade categories. Amazon provided a spreadsheet showing which product types and attributes were changing. The rationale for Read more
Customers ordered over 500 million items from independent sellers on Amazon during its Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event, which kicked off November 17 and continued through November 27th. Amazon said most indie sellers are small and medium-sized Read more
Amazon has an “FBA revenue calculator” to help sellers make decisions about how they use Fulfillment by Amazon. On Friday, it published a post showing sellers how they could use it to “remove some of the guesswork” from calculating costs Read more
Amazon streamed the first NFL game ever held the day after Thanksgiving, and it offered in-game Black Friday shopping deals to viewers. CBS Sports said Amazon came up with the idea and paid $100 million to the NFL to have Read more
eBay and Amazon turned to sellers to share advice with peers on holiday selling. eBay for Business posted a video with holiday-shipping tips from sellers, and Amazon ran a sweepstakes on its discussion boards. eBay runs a regular video series Read more
Amazon will begin offering cars for sale on its marketplace in 2024 thanks to a new strategic partnership with Hyundai. Dealers will be able to sell vehicles in Amazon’s US store, and Hyundai will be the first brand available for Read more
It used to be the only way a merchant could reach Amazon Prime shoppers was by using the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) fulfillment program. That changed last year when Amazon introduced Buy with Prime, which lets merchants offer Prime members Read more
People can now link accounts so they can buy on Facebook and Instagram without having to hop over to Amazon. That lets Amazon extend its reach and boost conversion. For Facebook, knowing what users buy on Amazon can help it Read more
