You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer (Buy Box). Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Shipping column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price, and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the ‘Match’ button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Shipping to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer (Buy Box). Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Shipping column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price, and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the ‘Match’ button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Shipping to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
72 replies
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This is anti-competitive behavior and typical of Amazon flaunting anti-trust and free trade rules.
This new system regularly and falsely tells sellers that their price is too high. It is not based on fact. Using retail price in the system is irrelevant as sellers have to make a profit, unlike Amazon. Given how high FBA fees were just jacked up, no one can make a profit at where Amazon sells at a loss.
Seller_rttt1yARiCuPx
Pricing status - so this is Amazon’s new buzzword replacing price fixing?
Seller_ZMQqvBsWfSwrF
This is nonsense. 3P sellers are smaller than Amazon, and smaller than Walmart. We don’t have the ability to buy in bulk to the extent either of you can.
I just tried your new “feature” and found the following:
“Competitive Price” to be $29.99. Wholesale price is $25.50. Result net loss of $5.94.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $16.80. Result net loss of $5.08.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $11.50. Result profit (before shipping to FBA) of $0.26.
“Competitive Price” to be $22.66. Wholesale price is $18.90. Result net loss of $4.89.
Using other people’s price points eliminates competition and drives the price to a point beneficial only to larger companies with greater buying power, and chokes out the small sellers and the starting sellers.
Using data from sellers who have the same potential buying power as Amazon also seems pretty close to price-fixing, especially when those numbers are used to deactivate 3P seller listings, thus driving the price point to a mutually beneficial level only for the wealthiest companies.
This is anti-competitive and it reduces the overall market power for smaller sellers.
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
Where is this pricing status link supposed to be?
Also, I’m wondering if this shows for FBA?
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
So this is nothing new they just seem to be pointing out that amazon will show you if your pricing is the lowest or not and you can easily price match with the click of a button if you want.
Amazon doesn’t care if we make any money on the sales, they get their referral fees and all that either way.
Nothing new here.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
We need more transparency on pricing, we need to know where you are getting the comps from and what they are. As other have said your pricing algorithm is off since it is using out of date or incomplete pricing data which leads to false price alerts.
Seller_Ri8V6EPBcMBIr
The competitive price recommendation recommends selling an item for cheaper than the FBA fee
the data needs to be synced with actual cost of doing business on Amazon
Seller_zwa0vzNCUEGen
I notice in media Amazon expects us to in about half the listings to sell about 2 dollars less than the fees to sell the item or they kick the high price bot …just a though but maybe someone should be working on this as its only been the last two years or so
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
I don’t think this is what you mean to say, Amazon. This field almost never appears for us. When it does, I’m unable to tie it to any real world pricing I can find anywhere on the internet, so I’m not going to assume you aren’t just pulling this number out of your back loading dock in order to enforce your legally unenforceable minimum required pricing policy.
The field that commonly shows is “lowest on Amazon”, but where that isn’t the Buy Box price, you’re defeating your own purpose here: clearly, setting the lowest price didn’t help that other shlub win the Buy Box, and Amazon clearly doesn’t like me more than the average seller, so where’s my motivation?
Matching the Buy Box Price might make sense … but you should put an asterisk next to that field where my FBM listing has to compete with FBA or 1PS, because lowering those prices would also be a waste of time and money. This just feels like another case of Amazon wanting it both ways – with me lowering prices enough that sales go up enough that Amazon has a motivation to knock off my product or source from my vendor or drive traffic to an Amazon Basic from Gina that replaces my product (for buyers that care only about price, which is clearly the buyers Amazon is trying to bring to their marketplace) – and it makes no sense to play in a lose-lose game.
This is wrong, at least for values of “great” that 3PS care about. Great is not “leading a race to the bottom that can only be won by the largest player, whose share price is driven by market share more than profitability”. Great is “profitable, and worth the time and headache of dealing with a defective platform that has underinvested in the the support needed to make up for those defects.”
But maybe you outsourced this posting, and the problem is simply that English is not the first language of the poster, and they understand “great” to mean “money-losing”.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer (Buy Box). Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Shipping column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price, and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the ‘Match’ button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Shipping to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer (Buy Box). Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Shipping column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price, and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the ‘Match’ button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Shipping to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer (Buy Box). Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Shipping column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price, and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the ‘Match’ button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Shipping to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
72 replies
72 replies
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This is anti-competitive behavior and typical of Amazon flaunting anti-trust and free trade rules.
This new system regularly and falsely tells sellers that their price is too high. It is not based on fact. Using retail price in the system is irrelevant as sellers have to make a profit, unlike Amazon. Given how high FBA fees were just jacked up, no one can make a profit at where Amazon sells at a loss.
Seller_rttt1yARiCuPx
Pricing status - so this is Amazon’s new buzzword replacing price fixing?
Seller_ZMQqvBsWfSwrF
This is nonsense. 3P sellers are smaller than Amazon, and smaller than Walmart. We don’t have the ability to buy in bulk to the extent either of you can.
I just tried your new “feature” and found the following:
“Competitive Price” to be $29.99. Wholesale price is $25.50. Result net loss of $5.94.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $16.80. Result net loss of $5.08.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $11.50. Result profit (before shipping to FBA) of $0.26.
“Competitive Price” to be $22.66. Wholesale price is $18.90. Result net loss of $4.89.
Using other people’s price points eliminates competition and drives the price to a point beneficial only to larger companies with greater buying power, and chokes out the small sellers and the starting sellers.
Using data from sellers who have the same potential buying power as Amazon also seems pretty close to price-fixing, especially when those numbers are used to deactivate 3P seller listings, thus driving the price point to a mutually beneficial level only for the wealthiest companies.
This is anti-competitive and it reduces the overall market power for smaller sellers.
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
Where is this pricing status link supposed to be?
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
So this is nothing new they just seem to be pointing out that amazon will show you if your pricing is the lowest or not and you can easily price match with the click of a button if you want.
Amazon doesn’t care if we make any money on the sales, they get their referral fees and all that either way.
Nothing new here.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
We need more transparency on pricing, we need to know where you are getting the comps from and what they are. As other have said your pricing algorithm is off since it is using out of date or incomplete pricing data which leads to false price alerts.
Seller_Ri8V6EPBcMBIr
The competitive price recommendation recommends selling an item for cheaper than the FBA fee
the data needs to be synced with actual cost of doing business on Amazon
Seller_zwa0vzNCUEGen
I notice in media Amazon expects us to in about half the listings to sell about 2 dollars less than the fees to sell the item or they kick the high price bot …just a though but maybe someone should be working on this as its only been the last two years or so
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
I don’t think this is what you mean to say, Amazon. This field almost never appears for us. When it does, I’m unable to tie it to any real world pricing I can find anywhere on the internet, so I’m not going to assume you aren’t just pulling this number out of your back loading dock in order to enforce your legally unenforceable minimum required pricing policy.
The field that commonly shows is “lowest on Amazon”, but where that isn’t the Buy Box price, you’re defeating your own purpose here: clearly, setting the lowest price didn’t help that other shlub win the Buy Box, and Amazon clearly doesn’t like me more than the average seller, so where’s my motivation?
Matching the Buy Box Price might make sense … but you should put an asterisk next to that field where my FBM listing has to compete with FBA or 1PS, because lowering those prices would also be a waste of time and money. This just feels like another case of Amazon wanting it both ways – with me lowering prices enough that sales go up enough that Amazon has a motivation to knock off my product or source from my vendor or drive traffic to an Amazon Basic from Gina that replaces my product (for buyers that care only about price, which is clearly the buyers Amazon is trying to bring to their marketplace) – and it makes no sense to play in a lose-lose game.
This is wrong, at least for values of “great” that 3PS care about. Great is not “leading a race to the bottom that can only be won by the largest player, whose share price is driven by market share more than profitability”. Great is “profitable, and worth the time and headache of dealing with a defective platform that has underinvested in the the support needed to make up for those defects.”
But maybe you outsourced this posting, and the problem is simply that English is not the first language of the poster, and they understand “great” to mean “money-losing”.
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This is anti-competitive behavior and typical of Amazon flaunting anti-trust and free trade rules.
This new system regularly and falsely tells sellers that their price is too high. It is not based on fact. Using retail price in the system is irrelevant as sellers have to make a profit, unlike Amazon. Given how high FBA fees were just jacked up, no one can make a profit at where Amazon sells at a loss.
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This is anti-competitive behavior and typical of Amazon flaunting anti-trust and free trade rules.
This new system regularly and falsely tells sellers that their price is too high. It is not based on fact. Using retail price in the system is irrelevant as sellers have to make a profit, unlike Amazon. Given how high FBA fees were just jacked up, no one can make a profit at where Amazon sells at a loss.
Seller_rttt1yARiCuPx
Pricing status - so this is Amazon’s new buzzword replacing price fixing?
Seller_rttt1yARiCuPx
Pricing status - so this is Amazon’s new buzzword replacing price fixing?
Seller_ZMQqvBsWfSwrF
This is nonsense. 3P sellers are smaller than Amazon, and smaller than Walmart. We don’t have the ability to buy in bulk to the extent either of you can.
I just tried your new “feature” and found the following:
“Competitive Price” to be $29.99. Wholesale price is $25.50. Result net loss of $5.94.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $16.80. Result net loss of $5.08.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $11.50. Result profit (before shipping to FBA) of $0.26.
“Competitive Price” to be $22.66. Wholesale price is $18.90. Result net loss of $4.89.
Using other people’s price points eliminates competition and drives the price to a point beneficial only to larger companies with greater buying power, and chokes out the small sellers and the starting sellers.
Using data from sellers who have the same potential buying power as Amazon also seems pretty close to price-fixing, especially when those numbers are used to deactivate 3P seller listings, thus driving the price point to a mutually beneficial level only for the wealthiest companies.
This is anti-competitive and it reduces the overall market power for smaller sellers.
Seller_ZMQqvBsWfSwrF
This is nonsense. 3P sellers are smaller than Amazon, and smaller than Walmart. We don’t have the ability to buy in bulk to the extent either of you can.
I just tried your new “feature” and found the following:
“Competitive Price” to be $29.99. Wholesale price is $25.50. Result net loss of $5.94.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $16.80. Result net loss of $5.08.
“Competitive Price” to be $19.99. Wholesale price is $11.50. Result profit (before shipping to FBA) of $0.26.
“Competitive Price” to be $22.66. Wholesale price is $18.90. Result net loss of $4.89.
Using other people’s price points eliminates competition and drives the price to a point beneficial only to larger companies with greater buying power, and chokes out the small sellers and the starting sellers.
Using data from sellers who have the same potential buying power as Amazon also seems pretty close to price-fixing, especially when those numbers are used to deactivate 3P seller listings, thus driving the price point to a mutually beneficial level only for the wealthiest companies.
This is anti-competitive and it reduces the overall market power for smaller sellers.
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
Where is this pricing status link supposed to be?
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
Where is this pricing status link supposed to be?
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
So this is nothing new they just seem to be pointing out that amazon will show you if your pricing is the lowest or not and you can easily price match with the click of a button if you want.
Amazon doesn’t care if we make any money on the sales, they get their referral fees and all that either way.
Nothing new here.
Seller_9Uf78DYSZ2lcW
So this is nothing new they just seem to be pointing out that amazon will show you if your pricing is the lowest or not and you can easily price match with the click of a button if you want.
Amazon doesn’t care if we make any money on the sales, they get their referral fees and all that either way.
Nothing new here.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
We need more transparency on pricing, we need to know where you are getting the comps from and what they are. As other have said your pricing algorithm is off since it is using out of date or incomplete pricing data which leads to false price alerts.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
We need more transparency on pricing, we need to know where you are getting the comps from and what they are. As other have said your pricing algorithm is off since it is using out of date or incomplete pricing data which leads to false price alerts.
Seller_Ri8V6EPBcMBIr
The competitive price recommendation recommends selling an item for cheaper than the FBA fee
the data needs to be synced with actual cost of doing business on Amazon
Seller_Ri8V6EPBcMBIr
The competitive price recommendation recommends selling an item for cheaper than the FBA fee
the data needs to be synced with actual cost of doing business on Amazon
Seller_zwa0vzNCUEGen
I notice in media Amazon expects us to in about half the listings to sell about 2 dollars less than the fees to sell the item or they kick the high price bot …just a though but maybe someone should be working on this as its only been the last two years or so
Seller_zwa0vzNCUEGen
I notice in media Amazon expects us to in about half the listings to sell about 2 dollars less than the fees to sell the item or they kick the high price bot …just a though but maybe someone should be working on this as its only been the last two years or so
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
I don’t think this is what you mean to say, Amazon. This field almost never appears for us. When it does, I’m unable to tie it to any real world pricing I can find anywhere on the internet, so I’m not going to assume you aren’t just pulling this number out of your back loading dock in order to enforce your legally unenforceable minimum required pricing policy.
The field that commonly shows is “lowest on Amazon”, but where that isn’t the Buy Box price, you’re defeating your own purpose here: clearly, setting the lowest price didn’t help that other shlub win the Buy Box, and Amazon clearly doesn’t like me more than the average seller, so where’s my motivation?
Matching the Buy Box Price might make sense … but you should put an asterisk next to that field where my FBM listing has to compete with FBA or 1PS, because lowering those prices would also be a waste of time and money. This just feels like another case of Amazon wanting it both ways – with me lowering prices enough that sales go up enough that Amazon has a motivation to knock off my product or source from my vendor or drive traffic to an Amazon Basic from Gina that replaces my product (for buyers that care only about price, which is clearly the buyers Amazon is trying to bring to their marketplace) – and it makes no sense to play in a lose-lose game.
This is wrong, at least for values of “great” that 3PS care about. Great is not “leading a race to the bottom that can only be won by the largest player, whose share price is driven by market share more than profitability”. Great is “profitable, and worth the time and headache of dealing with a defective platform that has underinvested in the the support needed to make up for those defects.”
But maybe you outsourced this posting, and the problem is simply that English is not the first language of the poster, and they understand “great” to mean “money-losing”.
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
I don’t think this is what you mean to say, Amazon. This field almost never appears for us. When it does, I’m unable to tie it to any real world pricing I can find anywhere on the internet, so I’m not going to assume you aren’t just pulling this number out of your back loading dock in order to enforce your legally unenforceable minimum required pricing policy.
The field that commonly shows is “lowest on Amazon”, but where that isn’t the Buy Box price, you’re defeating your own purpose here: clearly, setting the lowest price didn’t help that other shlub win the Buy Box, and Amazon clearly doesn’t like me more than the average seller, so where’s my motivation?
Matching the Buy Box Price might make sense … but you should put an asterisk next to that field where my FBM listing has to compete with FBA or 1PS, because lowering those prices would also be a waste of time and money. This just feels like another case of Amazon wanting it both ways – with me lowering prices enough that sales go up enough that Amazon has a motivation to knock off my product or source from my vendor or drive traffic to an Amazon Basic from Gina that replaces my product (for buyers that care only about price, which is clearly the buyers Amazon is trying to bring to their marketplace) – and it makes no sense to play in a lose-lose game.
This is wrong, at least for values of “great” that 3PS care about. Great is not “leading a race to the bottom that can only be won by the largest player, whose share price is driven by market share more than profitability”. Great is “profitable, and worth the time and headache of dealing with a defective platform that has underinvested in the the support needed to make up for those defects.”
But maybe you outsourced this posting, and the problem is simply that English is not the first language of the poster, and they understand “great” to mean “money-losing”.
