FBA Opportunities Feedback – We want to hear from you!
We are reaching out to you in partnership with the FBA Opportunities team to gather your perspective and feedback regarding this tool.
You can use the FBA Opportunities tool to:
• Understand catalog recommendations for products that could benefit from being enrolled into FBA.
• Identify a prioritized list of ASINs, along with potential sales uplift and FBA-related discounts in order to enroll into FBA.
The FBA Opportunities is available in Seller Central by navigating to the home card titled “Enroll in FBA” and then clicking “View Recommendations”.
It can also be accessed from the main menu by clicking Inventory and then Clicking “Opportunities”.
The intention behind this tool is for sellers to prioritize ASINs which could be a good fit for FBA given several data points based on predictive models.
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As mentioned previously, FBA Opportunities team wants to hear from you! Specifically:
1) Have you used the FBA Opportunities tool in the past, how did it work for you?
2) What would make you use it more?
3) Any additional stories or experiences you have had while using this tool.
All feedback regarding the FBA Opportunities posted in this thread will be shared directly with the internal team to help make this a more effective and beneficial tool for all FBA sellers. Thank you for using the tool and sharing feedback to help improve it!
FBA Opportunities Feedback – We want to hear from you!
We are reaching out to you in partnership with the FBA Opportunities team to gather your perspective and feedback regarding this tool.
You can use the FBA Opportunities tool to:
• Understand catalog recommendations for products that could benefit from being enrolled into FBA.
• Identify a prioritized list of ASINs, along with potential sales uplift and FBA-related discounts in order to enroll into FBA.
The FBA Opportunities is available in Seller Central by navigating to the home card titled “Enroll in FBA” and then clicking “View Recommendations”.
It can also be accessed from the main menu by clicking Inventory and then Clicking “Opportunities”.
The intention behind this tool is for sellers to prioritize ASINs which could be a good fit for FBA given several data points based on predictive models.
________________________________________
As mentioned previously, FBA Opportunities team wants to hear from you! Specifically:
1) Have you used the FBA Opportunities tool in the past, how did it work for you?
2) What would make you use it more?
3) Any additional stories or experiences you have had while using this tool.
All feedback regarding the FBA Opportunities posted in this thread will be shared directly with the internal team to help make this a more effective and beneficial tool for all FBA sellers. Thank you for using the tool and sharing feedback to help improve it!
24 replies
Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
FBA only applies to high volume sellers with 30-60 day turn-overs and most people coming to the forum are not that.
Small time sellers get screwed by FBA in every turn. Warehouses that don't function, staff that steals and isn't allowed the proper time it takes to count incoming inventory, never mind how you get your inventory back, IF you get it back and paid an arm and a leg to get it back from 16 different warehouses, 1 or 2 items at the time.
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
You steal my inventory do not check in boxes they it takes month for you to accept my invoices all from major US brands with inventory bought in the USA. Then you allow customers to LIE say anything in order to GET FREE RETURN up fees explain why I should trust you with my business and inventory. During holidays you transfer items constantly up to months I do not want that I do not care if my item is in warehouse across the country I want my items in the warehouse closes to me I do not want to cover the shipping costs to ship items 3000 miles away in order for you to transfer 3000 miles back total stupid! Has Amazon changed and fixed any of the issues? Do you not realize why FBA has dropped and now mostly Alibaba trash product or knock offs? We went from 95% FBA to 100% FBM over the last 4 years! We also went from 1% other platforms to 20% other platforms because other platforms are not constantly attacking listings over nonsense fake compliance issues!
Seller_JodrE4UL0vAPs
Personally speaking, I think the tool is completly useless and should be depreciated with more time and energy spent on resources to improve FBA overally including the SLA's, importantly on returns, conditions, imrovements on customer damaged, warehouse damaged and unfulfillable types.
Seller_R2dP7Hunjcdj0
Looks to me that you are getting the responses you requested...
It ALSO looks to me the these responses are NOT what you anticipated...
So, WHAT are you going to do about it, Amazon?
Seller_p5C34JAPICQs9
Please Please Please Please bring back the Small and Light Program PLEASE!
Sincerely
EVERYONE! Thank you
Seller_vlW86xsl81nE6
There was some sort of program few years ago. Amazon recommended a list of office supplies for me to FBA. However when I started looking at these items, ex. Avery labels, there were already several sellers selling these exact items. (Maybe now I'd be competing against Amazon selling same item)
Seller_dzOlAIMmMVjqq
Maybe have items checked in properly to FBA so that the inventory I sent reflects what they received. We triple check every qty sent and Amazon always comes up with a different amount checked in. Then it hits my metrics for FBA shipments.
Seller_4j7XN4O3l183e
Bryce, I've had a look. It suggests that I basically put all my products on FBA, and tells me that products that have never sold in FBM (not even a single unit) would sell in the tens or more in FBA. That's all I get.
Having said that, I do have about 10 ASINs enrolled in FBA and it has been pretty much nothing but struggle. Wrong products sent to customers, label problems (that turn out to be not problems after an investigation), missing quantities, mismatched quantities, many week check-in times, empty amazon envelopes going to customers who then email us directly on our company email to tell us how disappointed they are. I mean really? Get bad NCX scores because Amazon sends out the wrong unit, and then I pay for the return, then a new item to be sent out, to be then returned by the customer for 'unauthorized purchase' or 'did not want' and pay for the return myself and the subsequent disposal because of course it is not worthwhile for me to get the product back. In the single month I've done FBA, I've wanted to go back to FBM every day...
Seller_7cuOxUam0oN6W
The majority of the products on my list have never even sold 1 unit. 3 of them have sold 1 unit, and there is 1 that has sold 11 units. It does not look like much opportunity there.
Seller_eGsjMmuN9igqM
Gaining sellers' confidence in FBA is of utmost importance.
Amazon FBA is increasingly perceived as neither trustworthy nor accountable for the following reasons:
1) Amazon denies claims of missing units for any given reason, regardless of how unreasonable that reason might be.
2) There's a false expression of empathy without addressing the real issues at hand.
3) The long-term storage removal settings are malfunctioning.
I urge you to escalate this matter to senior management.
Restoring trust and accountability in the FBA program is of paramount importance.
