Amazon launched a new program to reward brands for driving sales on its marketplace. Similar to its affiliate program, the Brand Referral Bonus program gives participating brands an average 10% credit on sales resulting from their off-Amazon marketing efforts. (Eligible Read more
A federal agency sued Amazon to force the recall of hazardous products sold on its platform. The administrative complaint is about protecting American consumers, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). (See update to this story below.) “Today’s Read more
Amazon’s fulfillment service, though the subject of recurring seller complaints, is still the best bet for most small and midsize sellers, according to a veteran former executive with the company who was instrumental in developing Fulfillment by Amazon. Dave Glick Read more
Online sellers can reap the benefits of Amazon’s FBA fulfillment service even when they don’t sell on its marketplace thanks to its Multi-Channel Fulfillment service (MCF). This week, Amazon announced it has integrated with BigCommerce to make it easier for Read more
Marketplace Pulse reported today that Amazon suspended hundreds of top Chinese sellers over the past 2 months. The blog compiled a list of nearly 300 individual seller accounts that it said had offered dozens of previously best-selling items. Marketplace Pulse Read more
Amazon is launching a new portal for seller SAFE-T claims. The marketplace announced on Thursday: “On July 15, 2021, we’ll launch the SAFE-T Communication Center on Seller Central. This new center will be the single point of contact for all Read more
The Feds said it found 44,000 counterfeit batteries in a California warehouse that were destined to be sold on eBay and Amazon. A man admitted in a plea agreement that from March 2014 to June 2019, he and co-conspirators fraudulently Read more
Amazon extended the deadline for sellers to remove HTML from product descriptions on product detail pages. We had written about the original notification back in May when Amazon provided a deadline of July 17th. Yesterday (June 30th), Amazon told sellers Read more
A merchant who sells NFL items said Amazon has been removing some of his products. When asked why they are doing so, they refer to “The Memo from the NFL.” But, the seller said, “they have never shown me the Read more
Amazon ran a promotion to help small businesses in the runup to Prime Day this month, which helped generate $1.9 billion in small-business products in the two-week period. The Spend $10, Get $10 promotion offered a $10 credit to be Read more
