Meaning of the word hijack
I need clarification .If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing, to me, that is not hijacking. I believe hijacking is when someone takes over the listing and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same. If another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price, or you are the manufacturer and believe they do not have your actual product, isn’t that a fraudulent seller? I think that the term is thrown around a bit too loosely and to different sellers means different things.
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Seller_a3saSx48Xxrdz
Sometimes they are referred as hijackers when they do not have the buy box or have the secondary buybox. If you are a beginner and another seller approached you because your are using his listing stop using that listing if you are not authorized by the brand to sell that item, otherwise you may get IP complaints. There are few cases were you can use a private label ASIN like resell as used item but yet still i’d recommend you to avoid hijacking at all cost. it is not worth the ip complaint
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
Love this, @poker_face! I completely agree that plenty of Sellers use “hijack” for anything that they don’t like. 
This what I think about the scenarios you’ve presented. What do you think? 
HIJACK (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “co-opting”)
- “someone takes over the [ASIN] and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same.”
COUNTERFEIT SELLER (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “hijacking”)
- “you…believe they do not have your actual product”
AMAZON WORKING AS INTENDED
-
“If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing”
– with the exact same product
– NOT a BR ASIN -
“if another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price”
– with the exact same product
– no MAP agreement with rights owner
– NOT a BR ASIN
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
@poker_face, I assumed that you posted this just to help the 3P Seller community clarify a common language to aid in helpfulness and efficiency–yes? 
If I’m remembering correctly, @Rushdie has experience with various forms of hijacking or listing violations, and might be able to help clarify here.
Seller_IzcPAaHw3N7Fx
Hi JACK! Long time no see. Now that is what Hi Jack means to me.
Seller_NxyJMKWHRM2dZ
I think most people use the term when they have a listing of their own product on Amazon and someone else comes along and tries to sell on that listing. If it is your own product and you don’t sell wholesale, then anybody else selling on that listing would have to be selling counterfeit products.
Seller_dGuGWQromporh
When your making about 100k a month from one ASIN and another seller magically cuts your sales to 50k a month, then you will understand why we call them “hijackers”.
Seller_o1sx2kY9w8Q5g
If you are buying your items through means in which you are supplied invoices and those companies exist and invoicing can be verified… You do not need ANY AUTHORIZATION from any Brand… Authorization helps but will not prevent you from marketing that item on Amazon
regarding your hijack…refer to Papyrophilia response
Seller_MU8ehgZgMJ9K0
It is far too easy on Amazon for another seller to mess with your stuff. I do not know what hijinx take place in other venues, but here, anything that a devious seller can do, a devious seller will do. That is bad enough. But couple that with Amazon not taking action when violations occur, where harm will be done if not corrected, and you have a great problem. I realize that nobody cares what I think, but I will write it anyway:
The catalog system that Amazon uses where sellers can list against a detail page which was created by another seller, is where much of the problem originates. Eliminate this and there would be far less cases to report to Amazon, far fewer cases ignored by Amazon, and fewer complaints about bad seller support. If Amazon were listening, what makes music in their ears would be the idea that they could generate more advertising revenue. I believe that sellers on shared detail pages are less likely to advertise for those detail pages. I certainly am.
Meaning of the word hijack
I need clarification .If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing, to me, that is not hijacking. I believe hijacking is when someone takes over the listing and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same. If another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price, or you are the manufacturer and believe they do not have your actual product, isn’t that a fraudulent seller? I think that the term is thrown around a bit too loosely and to different sellers means different things.
Meaning of the word hijack
I need clarification .If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing, to me, that is not hijacking. I believe hijacking is when someone takes over the listing and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same. If another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price, or you are the manufacturer and believe they do not have your actual product, isn’t that a fraudulent seller? I think that the term is thrown around a bit too loosely and to different sellers means different things.
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31 replies
Seller_a3saSx48Xxrdz
Sometimes they are referred as hijackers when they do not have the buy box or have the secondary buybox. If you are a beginner and another seller approached you because your are using his listing stop using that listing if you are not authorized by the brand to sell that item, otherwise you may get IP complaints. There are few cases were you can use a private label ASIN like resell as used item but yet still i’d recommend you to avoid hijacking at all cost. it is not worth the ip complaint
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
Love this, @poker_face! I completely agree that plenty of Sellers use “hijack” for anything that they don’t like.
This what I think about the scenarios you’ve presented. What do you think?
HIJACK (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “co-opting”)
- “someone takes over the [ASIN] and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same.”
COUNTERFEIT SELLER (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “hijacking”)
- “you…believe they do not have your actual product”
AMAZON WORKING AS INTENDED
-
“If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing”
– with the exact same product
– NOT a BR ASIN -
“if another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price”
– with the exact same product
– no MAP agreement with rights owner
– NOT a BR ASIN
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
@poker_face, I assumed that you posted this just to help the 3P Seller community clarify a common language to aid in helpfulness and efficiency–yes?
If I’m remembering correctly, @Rushdie has experience with various forms of hijacking or listing violations, and might be able to help clarify here.
Seller_IzcPAaHw3N7Fx
Hi JACK! Long time no see. Now that is what Hi Jack means to me.
Seller_NxyJMKWHRM2dZ
I think most people use the term when they have a listing of their own product on Amazon and someone else comes along and tries to sell on that listing. If it is your own product and you don’t sell wholesale, then anybody else selling on that listing would have to be selling counterfeit products.
Seller_dGuGWQromporh
When your making about 100k a month from one ASIN and another seller magically cuts your sales to 50k a month, then you will understand why we call them “hijackers”.
Seller_o1sx2kY9w8Q5g
If you are buying your items through means in which you are supplied invoices and those companies exist and invoicing can be verified… You do not need ANY AUTHORIZATION from any Brand… Authorization helps but will not prevent you from marketing that item on Amazon
regarding your hijack…refer to Papyrophilia response
Seller_MU8ehgZgMJ9K0
It is far too easy on Amazon for another seller to mess with your stuff. I do not know what hijinx take place in other venues, but here, anything that a devious seller can do, a devious seller will do. That is bad enough. But couple that with Amazon not taking action when violations occur, where harm will be done if not corrected, and you have a great problem. I realize that nobody cares what I think, but I will write it anyway:
The catalog system that Amazon uses where sellers can list against a detail page which was created by another seller, is where much of the problem originates. Eliminate this and there would be far less cases to report to Amazon, far fewer cases ignored by Amazon, and fewer complaints about bad seller support. If Amazon were listening, what makes music in their ears would be the idea that they could generate more advertising revenue. I believe that sellers on shared detail pages are less likely to advertise for those detail pages. I certainly am.
Seller_a3saSx48Xxrdz
Sometimes they are referred as hijackers when they do not have the buy box or have the secondary buybox. If you are a beginner and another seller approached you because your are using his listing stop using that listing if you are not authorized by the brand to sell that item, otherwise you may get IP complaints. There are few cases were you can use a private label ASIN like resell as used item but yet still i’d recommend you to avoid hijacking at all cost. it is not worth the ip complaint
Seller_a3saSx48Xxrdz
Sometimes they are referred as hijackers when they do not have the buy box or have the secondary buybox. If you are a beginner and another seller approached you because your are using his listing stop using that listing if you are not authorized by the brand to sell that item, otherwise you may get IP complaints. There are few cases were you can use a private label ASIN like resell as used item but yet still i’d recommend you to avoid hijacking at all cost. it is not worth the ip complaint
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
Love this, @poker_face! I completely agree that plenty of Sellers use “hijack” for anything that they don’t like.
This what I think about the scenarios you’ve presented. What do you think?
HIJACK (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “co-opting”)
- “someone takes over the [ASIN] and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same.”
COUNTERFEIT SELLER (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “hijacking”)
- “you…believe they do not have your actual product”
AMAZON WORKING AS INTENDED
-
“If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing”
– with the exact same product
– NOT a BR ASIN -
“if another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price”
– with the exact same product
– no MAP agreement with rights owner
– NOT a BR ASIN
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
Love this, @poker_face! I completely agree that plenty of Sellers use “hijack” for anything that they don’t like.
This what I think about the scenarios you’ve presented. What do you think?
HIJACK (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “co-opting”)
- “someone takes over the [ASIN] and makes changes to the picture, bullet points, or description so that the product listed is no longer the same.”
COUNTERFEIT SELLER (Per @Rushdie below, possibly “hijacking”)
- “you…believe they do not have your actual product”
AMAZON WORKING AS INTENDED
-
“If someone is listed under the same ASIN as you are, even if you created the listing”
– with the exact same product
– NOT a BR ASIN -
“if another seller is listed under the same ASIN but is undercutting your price”
– with the exact same product
– no MAP agreement with rights owner
– NOT a BR ASIN
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
@poker_face, I assumed that you posted this just to help the 3P Seller community clarify a common language to aid in helpfulness and efficiency–yes?
If I’m remembering correctly, @Rushdie has experience with various forms of hijacking or listing violations, and might be able to help clarify here.
Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT
@poker_face, I assumed that you posted this just to help the 3P Seller community clarify a common language to aid in helpfulness and efficiency–yes?
If I’m remembering correctly, @Rushdie has experience with various forms of hijacking or listing violations, and might be able to help clarify here.
Seller_IzcPAaHw3N7Fx
Hi JACK! Long time no see. Now that is what Hi Jack means to me.
Seller_IzcPAaHw3N7Fx
Hi JACK! Long time no see. Now that is what Hi Jack means to me.
Seller_NxyJMKWHRM2dZ
I think most people use the term when they have a listing of their own product on Amazon and someone else comes along and tries to sell on that listing. If it is your own product and you don’t sell wholesale, then anybody else selling on that listing would have to be selling counterfeit products.
Seller_NxyJMKWHRM2dZ
I think most people use the term when they have a listing of their own product on Amazon and someone else comes along and tries to sell on that listing. If it is your own product and you don’t sell wholesale, then anybody else selling on that listing would have to be selling counterfeit products.
Seller_dGuGWQromporh
When your making about 100k a month from one ASIN and another seller magically cuts your sales to 50k a month, then you will understand why we call them “hijackers”.
Seller_dGuGWQromporh
When your making about 100k a month from one ASIN and another seller magically cuts your sales to 50k a month, then you will understand why we call them “hijackers”.
Seller_o1sx2kY9w8Q5g
If you are buying your items through means in which you are supplied invoices and those companies exist and invoicing can be verified… You do not need ANY AUTHORIZATION from any Brand… Authorization helps but will not prevent you from marketing that item on Amazon
regarding your hijack…refer to Papyrophilia response
Seller_o1sx2kY9w8Q5g
If you are buying your items through means in which you are supplied invoices and those companies exist and invoicing can be verified… You do not need ANY AUTHORIZATION from any Brand… Authorization helps but will not prevent you from marketing that item on Amazon
regarding your hijack…refer to Papyrophilia response
Seller_MU8ehgZgMJ9K0
It is far too easy on Amazon for another seller to mess with your stuff. I do not know what hijinx take place in other venues, but here, anything that a devious seller can do, a devious seller will do. That is bad enough. But couple that with Amazon not taking action when violations occur, where harm will be done if not corrected, and you have a great problem. I realize that nobody cares what I think, but I will write it anyway:
The catalog system that Amazon uses where sellers can list against a detail page which was created by another seller, is where much of the problem originates. Eliminate this and there would be far less cases to report to Amazon, far fewer cases ignored by Amazon, and fewer complaints about bad seller support. If Amazon were listening, what makes music in their ears would be the idea that they could generate more advertising revenue. I believe that sellers on shared detail pages are less likely to advertise for those detail pages. I certainly am.
Seller_MU8ehgZgMJ9K0
It is far too easy on Amazon for another seller to mess with your stuff. I do not know what hijinx take place in other venues, but here, anything that a devious seller can do, a devious seller will do. That is bad enough. But couple that with Amazon not taking action when violations occur, where harm will be done if not corrected, and you have a great problem. I realize that nobody cares what I think, but I will write it anyway:
The catalog system that Amazon uses where sellers can list against a detail page which was created by another seller, is where much of the problem originates. Eliminate this and there would be far less cases to report to Amazon, far fewer cases ignored by Amazon, and fewer complaints about bad seller support. If Amazon were listening, what makes music in their ears would be the idea that they could generate more advertising revenue. I believe that sellers on shared detail pages are less likely to advertise for those detail pages. I certainly am.
