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    DD+7 - March
    by Seller_7kK4AjHi3hJE3

    I will be closing my amazon seller's account when the DD+7 starts in March. Can someone give me the best, easiest steps in going about leaving the platform? I tolerate a lot with return scams, etc, but DD+7 is a bridge too far for me.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Stop Racing to the Bottom - You’re Destroying Your Own Profits
    by Seller_u9gLIXdj11B3z

    PSA to my fellow sellers:

    PLEASE STOP racing to the bottom with pricing.

    Every time someone undercuts by a few cents, then a few more, then a dollar… no one actually wins. All we’re doing is burning margins, resetting the market expectation lower, and training buyers to wait for the cheapest possible price.

    Meanwhile Amazon is already taking advantage of us in anyway possible:

    • Increasing referral and FBA fees
    • Returns that are refunded but unsellable
    • Questionable A–Z claims
    • Abrupt blocked listings, transparency requests, search suppressions, and all the other obstacles

    The one thing we actually have some control over is price discipline — and we’re handing even that away voluntarily.

    If your product is priced fairly and competitively, hold your price! Don't panic-cut to get the first sell, let the race-to-zero sellers sell out, burn out, and move on!

    You don’t need to torch your margins to get the Buy Box!

    Chasing the lowest possible price is short-term thinking that destroys long-term viability for everyone in the listing — including yourself!

    If we continue to undercut eachother to be first sell out (unneccessarily) the inevitable is profit disappears, ROI tanks, good products become absolete, and only big backings can survive operating at slim margins while the rest of us belly up and bottom out.

    We complain (rightfully) about Amazon squeezing us, but then we turn around and do the exact same thing to ourselves... WHY? We clearly can't control fee hikes, return abuse, and undesirable customer support response. So let's focus on what we can control!

    Stop racing to the bottom. Price responsibly. Protect your margins.

    Rant over but I hope the message emanates..!

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    SEVERE ONGOING BUYER ABUSE
    by Seller_9fc460O6g3Pz6

    A buyer has ordered our product 19 times and each time returned trash, sand, paper, unknown powdery substance and sticks to us. We have been reporting the buyer with the "buyer abuse" feature for several months but Amazon has done absolutely nothing about it. Each case we open tells us the same thing, use the buyer report feature. This needs to stop. The buyer uses FBA so we can't see their address to report to the authorities. We need help with this. Please we need reasonable mods to help and stop this abuse.

    Thank you very much for your time and assistance. @Aria_Amazon @Xander_Amazon @Josh_Amazon @Joey_Amazon

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    Looks like it is gonna be time to move one FROM AMAZON
    by Seller_GYZrUtJZKkCjd

    After 7+ years selling books on Amazon, I suddenly get hit with “This product has other listing Limitations”

    My account is healthy, no dings, no warnings, yet the restrictions keep piling up, especially on books.

    Over time, Amazon has made it harder and harder for smaller sellers to operate. And honestly, I’m finding that I can now make just as much money on eBay as I do with Amazon FBA, without the constant friction.

    Unless something drastically changes, this may be goodbye to Amazon for me.

    The reality is that Amazon has grown so large that small sellers doing $100K–$150K a year simply don’t matter anymore. When I first started, selling on Amazon was actually fun. The last two years? It’s felt more like a grind than a business I enjoyed.

    The good news is this won’t take my overall business down. What I’m doing today on Amazon, I’m confident I can replace, and grow, elsewhere.

    Amazon will go on.

    And so will we.

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    Terrible sales this whole year
    by Seller_yovxFPbGeNFSt

    This has been the slowest year ever when it comes to sales. I have been in business for 10 years and i never seen anything like this. Black Friday and Cyber Monday was a pretty much non existent and so far Christmas season is the same thing. This is not only happening with Amazon , its the same thing with my other platforms. I am curious how anyone else is doing?

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    Impossible to make money on Amazon with the high returns.
    by Seller_RuU6KjDkNAON1

    I've been an active seller for 20 years on Amazon, and this is it. This is my last year. I simply can't go on any longer. I'm literally making 50 cents to a dollar an order, and if I dare make more than a dollar an order, I am flagged for overcharging on the Amazon algorithm. It's really comical at times, even when I'm selling things below cost to clear it out, Amazon is flagging me for overcharging. Meanwhile, the shipping and fees of Amazon are more money than what I'm charging for the item. It's like Amazon bots simply don't understand logic and math. Anyways, with the new active returns on the platform, returns are just simply out of control. It seems like there is absolutely no care in the world to resolve and solve this issue, which is quite easy actually. It's called accountability, and Amazon doesn't believe in accountability for bad buyers. They've proven it with every single update that only benefits buyers and never sellers when it comes to these returns. I worked hard all Christmas long, my wife and I, 20-hour days and sending out every single day. No matter what we did, we're going to give it all back because we're seeing so many returns we're going to give up all our profits we've made for the Christmas season. It's sad, it's truly sad. And it's so easily avoidable if customers just showed a little mercy. They changed their mind. Everything is not as described. Came in late. It's all crazy excuses, meanwhile none of it is true. Literally none of it. No matter what we do, we have zero protection from this. I'll be moving on to other platforms, but sadly, this is a pandemic of problems when it comes to returns because the mentality of the consumer has been altered from Amazon's behavior over the years. I look every few months online for some relief, some new policy change, something to keep me going to maybe stay in the game a little longer. But it just seems like month by month the return issue only gets worse and worse. Amazon, if you're reading this, you need to step up your game and finally fix this problem. You know how easy this problem can be fixed. It's just a matter of are you willing to do it? That's all it comes down to and nothing more. Thank you!

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    Block Buyers
    by Seller_5y9wkqPB25Ahy

    Remember the days of stores having signs that they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone? How hard would it be for Amazon to allow us to block buyers? If I don't want your business ( aka the customer that keeps ordering and returning) then why is that too much to ask? Amazon would have so many more happy sellers. Seriously will consider leaving Amazon soon if the buyer abuse does not stop.

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