Warning FBM sellers!!
For as long as pretty much any of us can remember, the cheapest shipping option was always on top and pre-selected.
Amazon changed this today and now they are preselecting and putting on top a shipping option with a blue bubble that says "Based on your shipping history and preference"
This is new pre-selected option with the blue bubble is NOT necessarily the cheapest way to ship. Nor is it even necessarily the "best" way to ship.
Dear Amazon,
You don't seem to know what my preference actually is, so please do not try to do it for me. My preference is the CHEAPEST way I can ship something and still have the package arrive on time. (The way it has always been until recently)
Period. Done. That's it.
For the vast majority of orders, I am not loyal to any particular carrier with the exception of the fact that we cannot ship FedEx because of where we are.
If a carrier other than the preselected carrier can get a package delivered a day earlier and it only costs a few pennies more, I might upgrade. I make these decisions on the fly. I do not want them to be considered as part of a "shipping history" or a "preference."
I just want the cheapest OTDR-Protected shipping option on top always.
The way it has been working for years as been FINE. Why are you changing things now? And right during the busiest time of the year?? I hate to sound like I am always griping, but this is once again some unnecessary meddling with the way things have worked for YEARS.
We have been selling since 2012. That is TWELVE YEARS of reflexes / muscle memory that Amazon has just decided to throw a curveball at.
I think maybe this was an attempt to address concerns that I and some other sellers raised in another thread? If that's the case, I guess I appreciate the attempt... but this was not the correct solution.
(And I want to be able to remove FedEx because we never use FedEx.)