Pricing violation?
So we’ve received a couple of these
Your offers on the ASIN(s) below have been removed due to violation(s) of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/G5TUVJKZHUVMN77V). The per unit price on multipack ASINs must be equal to or lower than the price of a single unit of the same product.
The thing is, Amazon basicly gives the singles away because they ship as add-on items, and Amazon essentially pays zero to ship the item. People buy the multi-packs because they don’t want to spend the minimum for a Prime order. Is there any response to Amazon that could possibly have any effect?
Pricing violation?
So we’ve received a couple of these
Your offers on the ASIN(s) below have been removed due to violation(s) of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/G5TUVJKZHUVMN77V). The per unit price on multipack ASINs must be equal to or lower than the price of a single unit of the same product.
The thing is, Amazon basicly gives the singles away because they ship as add-on items, and Amazon essentially pays zero to ship the item. People buy the multi-packs because they don’t want to spend the minimum for a Prime order. Is there any response to Amazon that could possibly have any effect?
61 replies
Seller_Xpktjspu2oF5C
Better stop or you will be getting the boot, you said a couple of these…
Seller_ftSlnIeTTX0Cs
Set pricing so that…
???
Just a thought.
Seller_oEw5wUNHgJxxP
Thank you for posting this on the forum. I have wondered when they would crack down on this.
A catalog page exists for years selling one item for $30. Along comes a seller adds a variation for a two pack for just $80.
I never did get it as a buyer. How many people would bite on that “deal” I do not even understand how it worked.
Reminds me of a boy scout skit when I was young. “One for a nickel, or two for a dime” the skit was about pencils. Here on Amazon the variations with multipacks are never the same or even less for multiple items “per unit price” as Amazon indicated in the warning.
For me as a buyer it makes the marketplace look shady.
Seller_KpCKCaCKNTwRH
Doesn’t matter what the other incentives are. You need to fix the pricing, period.
There’s a current case in the Chicagoland area where a diner at a (franchisee-owned) McDonald’s determined that he (and others similarly situated) were paying more for an “Extra Value Meal” – than the price of the individual items rung up separately. The difference was 41 cents. Complaint lodged in winter 2016. The allegation is “Consumer Fraud”. They’re trying to get it certified for a class action, and will involve any customer of the operator’s five or so restaurants, as I remember.
You can avoid this scenario. And should.
Seller_uPXKEZAdYjLr8
Just a suggestion, not sure if this is already how you were doing it.
price it the same per unit but with separate shipping. Thought perhaps it seemed high due to you had it as shipping included.
Seller_qk349EXJMOiBo
Are they comparing your price on single units, or comparing your multi unit to someone else’s single unit pricing. The McDonalds comparison doesn’t work unless they are both your prices.
Seller_pG6OyvEvGSrFS
I’m slightly confused here. Is your own price for a single unit more than the price per unit in a multipack, or is it just that your price per unit in a multipack is more than Amazon’s own price for a single unit?
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
Okay, for instance, item that costs a dollar. Amazon sells it for 1.30, add on item. It costs them nothing to ship, since they’re throwing it into a box with something else (and no fees, of course). We put a three pack in FBA. We could make it 3.80, and we’d net 39 cents, or lose 2.61 after paying for the item. Plus shipping it in. Plus various other fees and lost units.
However, a person might want to buy this item, and nothing else. Since it’s an add-on item, you’d have to spend $25 on various things for Amazon to sell it to you. A lot of people are willing to spend seven or eight dollars to get what they want.
That’s an extreme example. But often it might be $4 for the Amazon add-on and $14 for a three pack. This isn’t tricking the buyer - Amazon is essentially discounting the add-on item because you’re buying other things. If you needed a toothbrush right away, and it cost $5, and someone said we’ll give it to you for $2, as long as you buy $25 of other things from us, you might say let me see if I need something else, or you might say never mind, I just need my toothbrush.
I totally understand that I see sellers who put up crazy priced multipacks basically with the hope that buyers get confused and waste their money, and sure, crack down on that. But add-on items should be an exception to the rule, because they’re not being sold at the real price for one unit.
Seller_dxNiJ3wL98iWT
I once had bottle service at a club in Vegas.
I noticed that the half bottles were 75% the price of a full bottle.
The manager said it must have been a mistake (yeah right), but I had free bottle service all night.
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
I don’t have this one pack listed. Again, I’m not 100% sure this is the one pack they’re referring to (they’re very vauge on details, no surprise there).
Pricing violation?
So we’ve received a couple of these
Your offers on the ASIN(s) below have been removed due to violation(s) of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/G5TUVJKZHUVMN77V). The per unit price on multipack ASINs must be equal to or lower than the price of a single unit of the same product.
The thing is, Amazon basicly gives the singles away because they ship as add-on items, and Amazon essentially pays zero to ship the item. People buy the multi-packs because they don’t want to spend the minimum for a Prime order. Is there any response to Amazon that could possibly have any effect?
Pricing violation?
So we’ve received a couple of these
Your offers on the ASIN(s) below have been removed due to violation(s) of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/G5TUVJKZHUVMN77V). The per unit price on multipack ASINs must be equal to or lower than the price of a single unit of the same product.
The thing is, Amazon basicly gives the singles away because they ship as add-on items, and Amazon essentially pays zero to ship the item. People buy the multi-packs because they don’t want to spend the minimum for a Prime order. Is there any response to Amazon that could possibly have any effect?
Pricing violation?
So we’ve received a couple of these
Your offers on the ASIN(s) below have been removed due to violation(s) of the Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/G5TUVJKZHUVMN77V). The per unit price on multipack ASINs must be equal to or lower than the price of a single unit of the same product.
The thing is, Amazon basicly gives the singles away because they ship as add-on items, and Amazon essentially pays zero to ship the item. People buy the multi-packs because they don’t want to spend the minimum for a Prime order. Is there any response to Amazon that could possibly have any effect?
61 replies
61 replies
Seller_Xpktjspu2oF5C
Better stop or you will be getting the boot, you said a couple of these…
Seller_ftSlnIeTTX0Cs
Set pricing so that…
???
Just a thought.
Seller_oEw5wUNHgJxxP
Thank you for posting this on the forum. I have wondered when they would crack down on this.
A catalog page exists for years selling one item for $30. Along comes a seller adds a variation for a two pack for just $80.
I never did get it as a buyer. How many people would bite on that “deal” I do not even understand how it worked.
Reminds me of a boy scout skit when I was young. “One for a nickel, or two for a dime” the skit was about pencils. Here on Amazon the variations with multipacks are never the same or even less for multiple items “per unit price” as Amazon indicated in the warning.
For me as a buyer it makes the marketplace look shady.
Seller_KpCKCaCKNTwRH
Doesn’t matter what the other incentives are. You need to fix the pricing, period.
There’s a current case in the Chicagoland area where a diner at a (franchisee-owned) McDonald’s determined that he (and others similarly situated) were paying more for an “Extra Value Meal” – than the price of the individual items rung up separately. The difference was 41 cents. Complaint lodged in winter 2016. The allegation is “Consumer Fraud”. They’re trying to get it certified for a class action, and will involve any customer of the operator’s five or so restaurants, as I remember.
You can avoid this scenario. And should.
Seller_uPXKEZAdYjLr8
Just a suggestion, not sure if this is already how you were doing it.
price it the same per unit but with separate shipping. Thought perhaps it seemed high due to you had it as shipping included.
Seller_qk349EXJMOiBo
Are they comparing your price on single units, or comparing your multi unit to someone else’s single unit pricing. The McDonalds comparison doesn’t work unless they are both your prices.
Seller_pG6OyvEvGSrFS
I’m slightly confused here. Is your own price for a single unit more than the price per unit in a multipack, or is it just that your price per unit in a multipack is more than Amazon’s own price for a single unit?
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
Okay, for instance, item that costs a dollar. Amazon sells it for 1.30, add on item. It costs them nothing to ship, since they’re throwing it into a box with something else (and no fees, of course). We put a three pack in FBA. We could make it 3.80, and we’d net 39 cents, or lose 2.61 after paying for the item. Plus shipping it in. Plus various other fees and lost units.
However, a person might want to buy this item, and nothing else. Since it’s an add-on item, you’d have to spend $25 on various things for Amazon to sell it to you. A lot of people are willing to spend seven or eight dollars to get what they want.
That’s an extreme example. But often it might be $4 for the Amazon add-on and $14 for a three pack. This isn’t tricking the buyer - Amazon is essentially discounting the add-on item because you’re buying other things. If you needed a toothbrush right away, and it cost $5, and someone said we’ll give it to you for $2, as long as you buy $25 of other things from us, you might say let me see if I need something else, or you might say never mind, I just need my toothbrush.
I totally understand that I see sellers who put up crazy priced multipacks basically with the hope that buyers get confused and waste their money, and sure, crack down on that. But add-on items should be an exception to the rule, because they’re not being sold at the real price for one unit.
Seller_dxNiJ3wL98iWT
I once had bottle service at a club in Vegas.
I noticed that the half bottles were 75% the price of a full bottle.
The manager said it must have been a mistake (yeah right), but I had free bottle service all night.
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
I don’t have this one pack listed. Again, I’m not 100% sure this is the one pack they’re referring to (they’re very vauge on details, no surprise there).
Seller_Xpktjspu2oF5C
Better stop or you will be getting the boot, you said a couple of these…
Seller_Xpktjspu2oF5C
Better stop or you will be getting the boot, you said a couple of these…
Seller_ftSlnIeTTX0Cs
Set pricing so that…
???
Just a thought.
Seller_ftSlnIeTTX0Cs
Set pricing so that…
???
Just a thought.
Seller_oEw5wUNHgJxxP
Thank you for posting this on the forum. I have wondered when they would crack down on this.
A catalog page exists for years selling one item for $30. Along comes a seller adds a variation for a two pack for just $80.
I never did get it as a buyer. How many people would bite on that “deal” I do not even understand how it worked.
Reminds me of a boy scout skit when I was young. “One for a nickel, or two for a dime” the skit was about pencils. Here on Amazon the variations with multipacks are never the same or even less for multiple items “per unit price” as Amazon indicated in the warning.
For me as a buyer it makes the marketplace look shady.
Seller_oEw5wUNHgJxxP
Thank you for posting this on the forum. I have wondered when they would crack down on this.
A catalog page exists for years selling one item for $30. Along comes a seller adds a variation for a two pack for just $80.
I never did get it as a buyer. How many people would bite on that “deal” I do not even understand how it worked.
Reminds me of a boy scout skit when I was young. “One for a nickel, or two for a dime” the skit was about pencils. Here on Amazon the variations with multipacks are never the same or even less for multiple items “per unit price” as Amazon indicated in the warning.
For me as a buyer it makes the marketplace look shady.
Seller_KpCKCaCKNTwRH
Doesn’t matter what the other incentives are. You need to fix the pricing, period.
There’s a current case in the Chicagoland area where a diner at a (franchisee-owned) McDonald’s determined that he (and others similarly situated) were paying more for an “Extra Value Meal” – than the price of the individual items rung up separately. The difference was 41 cents. Complaint lodged in winter 2016. The allegation is “Consumer Fraud”. They’re trying to get it certified for a class action, and will involve any customer of the operator’s five or so restaurants, as I remember.
You can avoid this scenario. And should.
Seller_KpCKCaCKNTwRH
Doesn’t matter what the other incentives are. You need to fix the pricing, period.
There’s a current case in the Chicagoland area where a diner at a (franchisee-owned) McDonald’s determined that he (and others similarly situated) were paying more for an “Extra Value Meal” – than the price of the individual items rung up separately. The difference was 41 cents. Complaint lodged in winter 2016. The allegation is “Consumer Fraud”. They’re trying to get it certified for a class action, and will involve any customer of the operator’s five or so restaurants, as I remember.
You can avoid this scenario. And should.
Seller_uPXKEZAdYjLr8
Just a suggestion, not sure if this is already how you were doing it.
price it the same per unit but with separate shipping. Thought perhaps it seemed high due to you had it as shipping included.
Seller_uPXKEZAdYjLr8
Just a suggestion, not sure if this is already how you were doing it.
price it the same per unit but with separate shipping. Thought perhaps it seemed high due to you had it as shipping included.
Seller_qk349EXJMOiBo
Are they comparing your price on single units, or comparing your multi unit to someone else’s single unit pricing. The McDonalds comparison doesn’t work unless they are both your prices.
Seller_qk349EXJMOiBo
Are they comparing your price on single units, or comparing your multi unit to someone else’s single unit pricing. The McDonalds comparison doesn’t work unless they are both your prices.
Seller_pG6OyvEvGSrFS
I’m slightly confused here. Is your own price for a single unit more than the price per unit in a multipack, or is it just that your price per unit in a multipack is more than Amazon’s own price for a single unit?
Seller_pG6OyvEvGSrFS
I’m slightly confused here. Is your own price for a single unit more than the price per unit in a multipack, or is it just that your price per unit in a multipack is more than Amazon’s own price for a single unit?
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
Okay, for instance, item that costs a dollar. Amazon sells it for 1.30, add on item. It costs them nothing to ship, since they’re throwing it into a box with something else (and no fees, of course). We put a three pack in FBA. We could make it 3.80, and we’d net 39 cents, or lose 2.61 after paying for the item. Plus shipping it in. Plus various other fees and lost units.
However, a person might want to buy this item, and nothing else. Since it’s an add-on item, you’d have to spend $25 on various things for Amazon to sell it to you. A lot of people are willing to spend seven or eight dollars to get what they want.
That’s an extreme example. But often it might be $4 for the Amazon add-on and $14 for a three pack. This isn’t tricking the buyer - Amazon is essentially discounting the add-on item because you’re buying other things. If you needed a toothbrush right away, and it cost $5, and someone said we’ll give it to you for $2, as long as you buy $25 of other things from us, you might say let me see if I need something else, or you might say never mind, I just need my toothbrush.
I totally understand that I see sellers who put up crazy priced multipacks basically with the hope that buyers get confused and waste their money, and sure, crack down on that. But add-on items should be an exception to the rule, because they’re not being sold at the real price for one unit.
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
Okay, for instance, item that costs a dollar. Amazon sells it for 1.30, add on item. It costs them nothing to ship, since they’re throwing it into a box with something else (and no fees, of course). We put a three pack in FBA. We could make it 3.80, and we’d net 39 cents, or lose 2.61 after paying for the item. Plus shipping it in. Plus various other fees and lost units.
However, a person might want to buy this item, and nothing else. Since it’s an add-on item, you’d have to spend $25 on various things for Amazon to sell it to you. A lot of people are willing to spend seven or eight dollars to get what they want.
That’s an extreme example. But often it might be $4 for the Amazon add-on and $14 for a three pack. This isn’t tricking the buyer - Amazon is essentially discounting the add-on item because you’re buying other things. If you needed a toothbrush right away, and it cost $5, and someone said we’ll give it to you for $2, as long as you buy $25 of other things from us, you might say let me see if I need something else, or you might say never mind, I just need my toothbrush.
I totally understand that I see sellers who put up crazy priced multipacks basically with the hope that buyers get confused and waste their money, and sure, crack down on that. But add-on items should be an exception to the rule, because they’re not being sold at the real price for one unit.
Seller_dxNiJ3wL98iWT
I once had bottle service at a club in Vegas.
I noticed that the half bottles were 75% the price of a full bottle.
The manager said it must have been a mistake (yeah right), but I had free bottle service all night.
Seller_dxNiJ3wL98iWT
I once had bottle service at a club in Vegas.
I noticed that the half bottles were 75% the price of a full bottle.
The manager said it must have been a mistake (yeah right), but I had free bottle service all night.
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
I don’t have this one pack listed. Again, I’m not 100% sure this is the one pack they’re referring to (they’re very vauge on details, no surprise there).
Seller_CAF1pkOtyOWlo
I don’t have this one pack listed. Again, I’m not 100% sure this is the one pack they’re referring to (they’re very vauge on details, no surprise there).
