Next year, sellers will have to wait much longer to get funds from their sales on Amazon. Beginning March 12, 2026, sellers will have a standard reserve period of seven days after delivery date (DD+7). “Moving your reserve setting to Read more
How do you hold a large corporation – and its executives – accountable for deceiving customers? Last week, the FTC was satisfied with a multi-billion dollar fine and restitution to consumers without forcing the alleged “culprits” (Amazon and two of Read more
Amazon’s agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant tool that it introduced last year can now reason, plan, and help sellers take action, the company planned to announce today at its Accelerate seller conference. The company made bold claims about how Seller Assistant Read more
Amazon announced the date of its 4th annual Prime Big Deal Days, boasting it would include “millions of early deals exclusively for Prime members” in Monday’s announcement. It’s Amazon’s first sale exclusively for Prime members since restricting how shoppers could Read more
Amazon uses Machine Learning technology to advise sellers which of the products they sell would be a good fit for its fulfillment service through a feature called Amazon FBA Enrollment Opportunities. On Tuesday, it announced it had integrated FBA Enrollment Read more
When Amazon wrote about its shopping app’s image-search feature last year, it demonstrated how Amazon Lens could help you find an item you see in real life “such as your friend’s magnetized fridge calendar that’s perfect for organizing you or Read more
Federal prosecutors described an unusual scheme that involved leveraging a company’s subscription program to allegedly commit fraud on Amazon and eBay. Two brothers were charged with fraud involving the online sale of cosmetics and pleaded guilty last year, and this Read more
Amazon is holding a shopping event in Germany (and possibly elsewhere) in early September called “Second Chance Deal Days” to promote used goods. The event will precede its 4th annual “Prime Big Deal Days” event, expected to take place October Read more
Sellers are pleading with Amazon to reconsider its decision to remove “irrelevant” variation themes between September 2 and November 30 as they brace for what they fear will be a major impact during the all-important holiday shopping season. (See update Read more
Amazon Business launched in 2015 to cater to business customers that have procurement processes and policies in place that consumers don’t have to abide by. By 2017, Amazon Business had over a million business customers in the US, 85,000 business Read more
