Amazon sellers will be responsible for paying for overage costs on returns beginning Saturday, January 14th. According to the new policy, if a shipping carrier assesses a correction charge on a customer return, sellers must now pay it. The policy Read more
Amazon is making its ‘Buy with Prime’ payments offering available to all US sellers by January 31st, saying in an announcement this week that offering the service can boost conversion rates for merchants by an average of 25%. It derived Read more
Products from third-party sellers represent almost 60% of the units sold on Amazon, and of the nearly 2 million sellers that do business on the platform, most of them are small or medium-sized. In the US, sellers sold over 3.9 Read more
Amazon introduced a new metric that rates one aspect of sellers’ product detail pages. The “Potential Sales Lift” metric identifies listings that are missing key attributes – but goes further by showing sellers how much their sales might improve if Read more
Amazon said it experienced a record-breaking 2022 holiday season, although as usual, it didn’t provide any year-over-year growth numbers or other specifics. Outsiders will have to wait until late January or early February when the company reports its overall fourth-quarter Read more
Every year, marketplace sellers debate whether they should put their store in vacation mode ahead of Christmas. It may be because they’re taking personal time off or because they fear negative consequences of impatient buyers not receiving their item in Read more
Six months after Amazon said it would begin drone deliveries in two American towns by the end of the year, it’s a reality. Local news media are reporting that delivery by drone began just days before Christmas. Amazon spokesperson Paul Read more
Amazon posted a reminder to sellers to renew their liability insurance, but it included in its announcement a link to a page that displayed another seller’s user name when landing there. In response, a seller posted a screenshot that showed Read more
Amazon reached an agreement with the European Commission which had alleged in its findings that Amazon’s reliance on marketplace sellers’ non-public business data to calibrate its retail decisions distorted fair competition on its platform and prevented effective competition. The Commission Read more
Amazon sent customers an email with the subject line, “Lookout for online scammers” with detailed advice to help them prevent getting defrauded. One critical piece of advice – it advised recipients to be wary of false urgency. “Scammers may try Read more
