Amazon is removing a safeguard for sellers of high-value items next month, a decision sellers are denouncing as untenable. On Friday, Amazon announced the following policy change: “Effective February 8, 2026, all US sellers must use the Amazon Prepaid Return Read more
Like other companies, Amazon is attempting to show it is winning when it comes to AI, as evidenced by several press releases this week. On Tuesday, it said it was showcasing its vision for AI at the CES 2026 trade Read more
Sellers who don’t sell on Amazon were shocked to see their store listings appear in its shopping app under Shop Direct and Buy for Me features. They learned that Amazon had scraped their web stores, displayed their listings in the Read more
Amazon dropped a new policy update 2 days before Christmas that impacts sellers who fulfill their own orders rather than using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). On December 23, Amazon said a new policy would take effect on January 26, 2026: Read more
Amazon Business, which now drives over $35 billion in annualized gross sales, announced new benefits of the Business Prime program and said the expanded benefits can help businesses save nearly $1,000 per year as well as streamline operations and simplify Read more
Amazon moderators acknowledged the company restricted some FBA listings on a regional basis after sellers reported the issue on the Amazon discussion boards. A reader told EcommerceBytes last month, “The problem involves a system glitch in Amazon’s FBA buy-ability logic Read more
Consultants discussed new Walmart and Amazon marketplace policies, with one change garnering praise and the other getting panned. Walmart just put a policy into place for sellers who use its multichannel fulfillment service, and Amazon’s controversial DD+7 policy rolls out Read more
Online shoppers are right to be skeptical about discounts offered during sales like Black Friday (as this article from 2024 shows). But now Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant may help buyers spot deceptive pricing. Amazon said since launching last year, Read more
It’s nearly impossible for sellers to take a day off from shipping orders because of strict delivery deadlines set by marketplaces. But Amazon is now giving sellers who fulfill their own orders a break with a new Fulfillment by Merchant Read more
Amazon launched the Grade and Resell service for FBA sellers in 2021, and this month it expanded the program to additional categories “with smarter features.” Amazon describes the program as follows: “The FBA Grade and Resell program allows you to Read more
