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
Amazon announced a new returns dashboard for sellers to get “clearer insights into your returns and inventory recovery,” in one central location, regardless of channel. It comes at an opportune time: Amazon’s extended holiday returns policy requires that items purchased Read more
Amazon grew sales 13% in the third quarter of 2025, year-over-year, including its AWS service. By segment, Amazon grew North American sales 11% to $106.3 billion and International 14% to $40.9 billion. AWS segment sales increased 20% year-over-year to $33 Read more
Sellers received good news this week when Amazon refunded them for mysterious “Other” fees that they had been billed for in August and again in September. A reader who had alerted us to the issue last month wrote today and Read more
Update 10/28/2025: Amazon announced today it will reduce its corporate workforce by 14,000 roles overall (not providing the number of employees impacted) and said in part, “The reductions we’re sharing today are a continuation of this work to get even Read more
Amazon has been the forerunner in getting consumers to trade privacy for convenience, at least in the ecommerce sector. Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping feature called “Help Me Decide,” which it described as follows, highlights how much data from shoppers it Read more
If selling on Amazon could be compared to the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” game, sellers now have three “lifelines” thanks to a new feature rolling out called Amazon Seller Challenge for members of Account Health Assurance (AHA). Some Read more
Amazon AWS experienced an outage that demonstrated how many companies are dependent on Amazon’s web-hosting cloud services. In fact, the outage earned a special alert on the top of DownDetector on Monday morning: “User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Read more
Amazon is creating 250,000 jobs in the US this holiday season, including full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions. They aren’t just jobs in cities and suburbs – Amazon said the hiring plans include rural areas. It’s investing over $1 billion into Read more
Online sellers face another cost that takes a bite out of their margins. Amazon began charging state sales tax on seller ads on October 1, 2025. It applies to sellers located in a single state for now, but like other Read more
