Low-inventory fee killed my business
My business survived Amazon shutting down inbound shipping during covid.
My business survived having my main listing closed because of some GTIN nonsense.
My business survived me falling off a ladder and ending up with a really bad brain injury.
My business survived me getting covid and nearly dying the week after my mom died.
My business survived the inventory placement fee debacle.
My business survived when a vulture capital firm bought my main supplier and quintupled minimum orders and cut my terms in half.
But the low-inventory fees have done the trick. 12 years of hard work, gone. I'll just sell my remaining product on Walmart and shut down my business. I'm still digging myself out of the hole from the GTIN nonsense, so I'm probably going to end up declaring bankruptcy. Hopefully they don't take my van in the bankruptcy, as that's where me and the pup will be living.
This is what Amazon does. I just don't have the energy to adapt anymore. Every time I think I have a handle on it, Amazon introduces some new way of picking my pocket. I'm done.
92 replies
Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
3P sellers, at least US based ones, are not welcome on this platform anymore. I don't know how much more clear they could make it, but they keep piling it up for those that still didn't catch on. I withdrew more than 2 years ago, slowly, and I am nearly done here. Handful of sales a week, I think I'm really just keeping this account open out of habit....and to hang out in the forum now and then watching the place fall apart. There are better places to sell....I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Seller_M4NWRaRnU1uDM
this low inventory fee is nonsense. This is really ridiculous. People are really going to see how bad this was within 3-6 months. That .97 that they take or .70 is huge. That is enough to determine whether you can supply a product or not. I have several products that are hot sellers that because of that fee I have abandoned the product. We cannot control how often a supplier has an item. Distributors constantly run out of stokc. This fee wasn't implemented in good faith, whatsoever.
Even though I am experiencing growth is getting harder and harder on here. The seller support and lack of help when glitches occur is mind-blowing. Always looking into the future i think it would be wise for a lot of us to start planning our escape from Amazon. I have been diverting energy away from Amazon increasinly and looking for other things to do. I would advise all sellers to do the same.
I have a neighbor that wanted to start selling here. He had joined a Amazon seller group. I told him about the REAL issues around here and several of the cons. He just looked at me like..what? I told him about the horrible seller support, the glitches that do not get fixed, how they lose shipments and try not to reimbuse them (or how they ask for invoices and then sell your product), the buyer return fraud, how they do not follow several policies, the rampant IP abuse, the increasing fees, etc etc. He said he isn't interested anymore. I told him start your own website.
Seller_rAVtAnjPXrNg3
The fees just keep piling on. Low Inventory fee - really?
Return Processing Fee - Amazon's lenient return policies created an environment that caused customer returns to skyrocket, and instead of pulling back the reins, we are now left holding the bag to pay for this massive screwup, as well as every other online and brick/mortar retail establishment pushed to adopt the same lenient policies just to compete.
Customers are now feeling entitled and emboldened to go as far as returning a used product or substitute fake product at our expense.
Seller_9vW7z7iS199uk
Best of luck to you, if you have made it that many years, then you have the resilience to make it in other markets. Amazon doesn't deserve you. We are in the same boat, as an importer, company we have a lot of items that we offer on FBA, but we can't control things like how long it takes from product to arrive from overseas. Now a shipping delay turns into thousands of dollars of ADDITIONAL loss. When the rules constantly change and always for the worse, it tells you that this isn't the way to spend your energy.
Seller_gDktQSA1WFw4Y
I am so sorry about your business, as a small business, we are facing the same difficulties. I feel that as an Amazon seller, it's not worth bearing such significant economic and psychological pressure for such meager profits. please share your story to FTC and your representative.
Seller_svgavkSwEWnI7
We have learned at our expense that that one has to be a fool to stake one's financial future on Amazon. Never again!
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
All sellers have to remember that Amazon is not interested in any one seller's business. or how much profit they earn for their selves. Amazon is a for profit company solely focus is extracting as much of Every seller's profit as they can.
The bottom line is this. Amazon will not come out and say they do not want sellers who send one off, or maintain low volume of a product, to FBA thinking they will get rich. They create too much wasted space in the centers. So, Amazon just charges them more. One by One, sooner or later, the low volume sellers learn there is no real profit in selling on Amazon using FBA. And in the end, Amazon gets what it wants.
Seller_2nHKMJRUHkO90
I've been selling for 10yrs. $15million/yr in amazon sales. Placement fees and low-inventory fees are the last straw for me too. It's crazt how much they raised the fees overnight. I just listened to their earnings call yesterday and they didn't talk about 3rd party sellers and only talked about e-commerce for a few minutes. The whole call was dominated by ai and AWS. So, I think they see e-commerce as a way to suck as much bottom line as they can from it and put it towards further developing AWS.
Seller_lCX40xAkSs1xm
They do not want you on the platform.
In other news: "Amazon Triples Quarterly Profit As Cloud Surges" - Barrons article
Seller_27lQXuZPqUkar
Amazon appears to be passing their costs onto us.
It will make many products not worth selling on Amazon.
Still, it depends what Amazon's strategy is. When it was the "everything store," they had to make it possible for Sellers to make a profit selling on Amazon even if the item was low dollar value.
Hopefully, they are intentionally making the shift to a more limited group of sellers. I doubt it though, as AWS cannot make up for significant losses in revenue caused by lost sellers.
Low-inventory fee killed my business
My business survived Amazon shutting down inbound shipping during covid.
My business survived having my main listing closed because of some GTIN nonsense.
My business survived me falling off a ladder and ending up with a really bad brain injury.
My business survived me getting covid and nearly dying the week after my mom died.
My business survived the inventory placement fee debacle.
My business survived when a vulture capital firm bought my main supplier and quintupled minimum orders and cut my terms in half.
But the low-inventory fees have done the trick. 12 years of hard work, gone. I'll just sell my remaining product on Walmart and shut down my business. I'm still digging myself out of the hole from the GTIN nonsense, so I'm probably going to end up declaring bankruptcy. Hopefully they don't take my van in the bankruptcy, as that's where me and the pup will be living.
This is what Amazon does. I just don't have the energy to adapt anymore. Every time I think I have a handle on it, Amazon introduces some new way of picking my pocket. I'm done.
Low-inventory fee killed my business
My business survived Amazon shutting down inbound shipping during covid.
My business survived having my main listing closed because of some GTIN nonsense.
My business survived me falling off a ladder and ending up with a really bad brain injury.
My business survived me getting covid and nearly dying the week after my mom died.
My business survived the inventory placement fee debacle.
My business survived when a vulture capital firm bought my main supplier and quintupled minimum orders and cut my terms in half.
But the low-inventory fees have done the trick. 12 years of hard work, gone. I'll just sell my remaining product on Walmart and shut down my business. I'm still digging myself out of the hole from the GTIN nonsense, so I'm probably going to end up declaring bankruptcy. Hopefully they don't take my van in the bankruptcy, as that's where me and the pup will be living.
This is what Amazon does. I just don't have the energy to adapt anymore. Every time I think I have a handle on it, Amazon introduces some new way of picking my pocket. I'm done.
92 replies
92 replies
Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
3P sellers, at least US based ones, are not welcome on this platform anymore. I don't know how much more clear they could make it, but they keep piling it up for those that still didn't catch on. I withdrew more than 2 years ago, slowly, and I am nearly done here. Handful of sales a week, I think I'm really just keeping this account open out of habit....and to hang out in the forum now and then watching the place fall apart. There are better places to sell....I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Seller_M4NWRaRnU1uDM
this low inventory fee is nonsense. This is really ridiculous. People are really going to see how bad this was within 3-6 months. That .97 that they take or .70 is huge. That is enough to determine whether you can supply a product or not. I have several products that are hot sellers that because of that fee I have abandoned the product. We cannot control how often a supplier has an item. Distributors constantly run out of stokc. This fee wasn't implemented in good faith, whatsoever.
Even though I am experiencing growth is getting harder and harder on here. The seller support and lack of help when glitches occur is mind-blowing. Always looking into the future i think it would be wise for a lot of us to start planning our escape from Amazon. I have been diverting energy away from Amazon increasinly and looking for other things to do. I would advise all sellers to do the same.
I have a neighbor that wanted to start selling here. He had joined a Amazon seller group. I told him about the REAL issues around here and several of the cons. He just looked at me like..what? I told him about the horrible seller support, the glitches that do not get fixed, how they lose shipments and try not to reimbuse them (or how they ask for invoices and then sell your product), the buyer return fraud, how they do not follow several policies, the rampant IP abuse, the increasing fees, etc etc. He said he isn't interested anymore. I told him start your own website.
Seller_rAVtAnjPXrNg3
The fees just keep piling on. Low Inventory fee - really?
Return Processing Fee - Amazon's lenient return policies created an environment that caused customer returns to skyrocket, and instead of pulling back the reins, we are now left holding the bag to pay for this massive screwup, as well as every other online and brick/mortar retail establishment pushed to adopt the same lenient policies just to compete.
Customers are now feeling entitled and emboldened to go as far as returning a used product or substitute fake product at our expense.
Seller_9vW7z7iS199uk
Best of luck to you, if you have made it that many years, then you have the resilience to make it in other markets. Amazon doesn't deserve you. We are in the same boat, as an importer, company we have a lot of items that we offer on FBA, but we can't control things like how long it takes from product to arrive from overseas. Now a shipping delay turns into thousands of dollars of ADDITIONAL loss. When the rules constantly change and always for the worse, it tells you that this isn't the way to spend your energy.
Seller_gDktQSA1WFw4Y
I am so sorry about your business, as a small business, we are facing the same difficulties. I feel that as an Amazon seller, it's not worth bearing such significant economic and psychological pressure for such meager profits. please share your story to FTC and your representative.
Seller_svgavkSwEWnI7
We have learned at our expense that that one has to be a fool to stake one's financial future on Amazon. Never again!
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
All sellers have to remember that Amazon is not interested in any one seller's business. or how much profit they earn for their selves. Amazon is a for profit company solely focus is extracting as much of Every seller's profit as they can.
The bottom line is this. Amazon will not come out and say they do not want sellers who send one off, or maintain low volume of a product, to FBA thinking they will get rich. They create too much wasted space in the centers. So, Amazon just charges them more. One by One, sooner or later, the low volume sellers learn there is no real profit in selling on Amazon using FBA. And in the end, Amazon gets what it wants.
Seller_2nHKMJRUHkO90
I've been selling for 10yrs. $15million/yr in amazon sales. Placement fees and low-inventory fees are the last straw for me too. It's crazt how much they raised the fees overnight. I just listened to their earnings call yesterday and they didn't talk about 3rd party sellers and only talked about e-commerce for a few minutes. The whole call was dominated by ai and AWS. So, I think they see e-commerce as a way to suck as much bottom line as they can from it and put it towards further developing AWS.
Seller_lCX40xAkSs1xm
They do not want you on the platform.
In other news: "Amazon Triples Quarterly Profit As Cloud Surges" - Barrons article
Seller_27lQXuZPqUkar
Amazon appears to be passing their costs onto us.
It will make many products not worth selling on Amazon.
Still, it depends what Amazon's strategy is. When it was the "everything store," they had to make it possible for Sellers to make a profit selling on Amazon even if the item was low dollar value.
Hopefully, they are intentionally making the shift to a more limited group of sellers. I doubt it though, as AWS cannot make up for significant losses in revenue caused by lost sellers.
Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
3P sellers, at least US based ones, are not welcome on this platform anymore. I don't know how much more clear they could make it, but they keep piling it up for those that still didn't catch on. I withdrew more than 2 years ago, slowly, and I am nearly done here. Handful of sales a week, I think I'm really just keeping this account open out of habit....and to hang out in the forum now and then watching the place fall apart. There are better places to sell....I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
3P sellers, at least US based ones, are not welcome on this platform anymore. I don't know how much more clear they could make it, but they keep piling it up for those that still didn't catch on. I withdrew more than 2 years ago, slowly, and I am nearly done here. Handful of sales a week, I think I'm really just keeping this account open out of habit....and to hang out in the forum now and then watching the place fall apart. There are better places to sell....I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Seller_M4NWRaRnU1uDM
this low inventory fee is nonsense. This is really ridiculous. People are really going to see how bad this was within 3-6 months. That .97 that they take or .70 is huge. That is enough to determine whether you can supply a product or not. I have several products that are hot sellers that because of that fee I have abandoned the product. We cannot control how often a supplier has an item. Distributors constantly run out of stokc. This fee wasn't implemented in good faith, whatsoever.
Even though I am experiencing growth is getting harder and harder on here. The seller support and lack of help when glitches occur is mind-blowing. Always looking into the future i think it would be wise for a lot of us to start planning our escape from Amazon. I have been diverting energy away from Amazon increasinly and looking for other things to do. I would advise all sellers to do the same.
I have a neighbor that wanted to start selling here. He had joined a Amazon seller group. I told him about the REAL issues around here and several of the cons. He just looked at me like..what? I told him about the horrible seller support, the glitches that do not get fixed, how they lose shipments and try not to reimbuse them (or how they ask for invoices and then sell your product), the buyer return fraud, how they do not follow several policies, the rampant IP abuse, the increasing fees, etc etc. He said he isn't interested anymore. I told him start your own website.
Seller_M4NWRaRnU1uDM
this low inventory fee is nonsense. This is really ridiculous. People are really going to see how bad this was within 3-6 months. That .97 that they take or .70 is huge. That is enough to determine whether you can supply a product or not. I have several products that are hot sellers that because of that fee I have abandoned the product. We cannot control how often a supplier has an item. Distributors constantly run out of stokc. This fee wasn't implemented in good faith, whatsoever.
Even though I am experiencing growth is getting harder and harder on here. The seller support and lack of help when glitches occur is mind-blowing. Always looking into the future i think it would be wise for a lot of us to start planning our escape from Amazon. I have been diverting energy away from Amazon increasinly and looking for other things to do. I would advise all sellers to do the same.
I have a neighbor that wanted to start selling here. He had joined a Amazon seller group. I told him about the REAL issues around here and several of the cons. He just looked at me like..what? I told him about the horrible seller support, the glitches that do not get fixed, how they lose shipments and try not to reimbuse them (or how they ask for invoices and then sell your product), the buyer return fraud, how they do not follow several policies, the rampant IP abuse, the increasing fees, etc etc. He said he isn't interested anymore. I told him start your own website.
Seller_rAVtAnjPXrNg3
The fees just keep piling on. Low Inventory fee - really?
Return Processing Fee - Amazon's lenient return policies created an environment that caused customer returns to skyrocket, and instead of pulling back the reins, we are now left holding the bag to pay for this massive screwup, as well as every other online and brick/mortar retail establishment pushed to adopt the same lenient policies just to compete.
Customers are now feeling entitled and emboldened to go as far as returning a used product or substitute fake product at our expense.
Seller_rAVtAnjPXrNg3
The fees just keep piling on. Low Inventory fee - really?
Return Processing Fee - Amazon's lenient return policies created an environment that caused customer returns to skyrocket, and instead of pulling back the reins, we are now left holding the bag to pay for this massive screwup, as well as every other online and brick/mortar retail establishment pushed to adopt the same lenient policies just to compete.
Customers are now feeling entitled and emboldened to go as far as returning a used product or substitute fake product at our expense.
Seller_9vW7z7iS199uk
Best of luck to you, if you have made it that many years, then you have the resilience to make it in other markets. Amazon doesn't deserve you. We are in the same boat, as an importer, company we have a lot of items that we offer on FBA, but we can't control things like how long it takes from product to arrive from overseas. Now a shipping delay turns into thousands of dollars of ADDITIONAL loss. When the rules constantly change and always for the worse, it tells you that this isn't the way to spend your energy.
Seller_9vW7z7iS199uk
Best of luck to you, if you have made it that many years, then you have the resilience to make it in other markets. Amazon doesn't deserve you. We are in the same boat, as an importer, company we have a lot of items that we offer on FBA, but we can't control things like how long it takes from product to arrive from overseas. Now a shipping delay turns into thousands of dollars of ADDITIONAL loss. When the rules constantly change and always for the worse, it tells you that this isn't the way to spend your energy.
Seller_gDktQSA1WFw4Y
I am so sorry about your business, as a small business, we are facing the same difficulties. I feel that as an Amazon seller, it's not worth bearing such significant economic and psychological pressure for such meager profits. please share your story to FTC and your representative.
Seller_gDktQSA1WFw4Y
I am so sorry about your business, as a small business, we are facing the same difficulties. I feel that as an Amazon seller, it's not worth bearing such significant economic and psychological pressure for such meager profits. please share your story to FTC and your representative.
Seller_svgavkSwEWnI7
We have learned at our expense that that one has to be a fool to stake one's financial future on Amazon. Never again!
Seller_svgavkSwEWnI7
We have learned at our expense that that one has to be a fool to stake one's financial future on Amazon. Never again!
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
All sellers have to remember that Amazon is not interested in any one seller's business. or how much profit they earn for their selves. Amazon is a for profit company solely focus is extracting as much of Every seller's profit as they can.
The bottom line is this. Amazon will not come out and say they do not want sellers who send one off, or maintain low volume of a product, to FBA thinking they will get rich. They create too much wasted space in the centers. So, Amazon just charges them more. One by One, sooner or later, the low volume sellers learn there is no real profit in selling on Amazon using FBA. And in the end, Amazon gets what it wants.
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
All sellers have to remember that Amazon is not interested in any one seller's business. or how much profit they earn for their selves. Amazon is a for profit company solely focus is extracting as much of Every seller's profit as they can.
The bottom line is this. Amazon will not come out and say they do not want sellers who send one off, or maintain low volume of a product, to FBA thinking they will get rich. They create too much wasted space in the centers. So, Amazon just charges them more. One by One, sooner or later, the low volume sellers learn there is no real profit in selling on Amazon using FBA. And in the end, Amazon gets what it wants.
Seller_2nHKMJRUHkO90
I've been selling for 10yrs. $15million/yr in amazon sales. Placement fees and low-inventory fees are the last straw for me too. It's crazt how much they raised the fees overnight. I just listened to their earnings call yesterday and they didn't talk about 3rd party sellers and only talked about e-commerce for a few minutes. The whole call was dominated by ai and AWS. So, I think they see e-commerce as a way to suck as much bottom line as they can from it and put it towards further developing AWS.
Seller_2nHKMJRUHkO90
I've been selling for 10yrs. $15million/yr in amazon sales. Placement fees and low-inventory fees are the last straw for me too. It's crazt how much they raised the fees overnight. I just listened to their earnings call yesterday and they didn't talk about 3rd party sellers and only talked about e-commerce for a few minutes. The whole call was dominated by ai and AWS. So, I think they see e-commerce as a way to suck as much bottom line as they can from it and put it towards further developing AWS.
Seller_lCX40xAkSs1xm
They do not want you on the platform.
In other news: "Amazon Triples Quarterly Profit As Cloud Surges" - Barrons article
Seller_lCX40xAkSs1xm
They do not want you on the platform.
In other news: "Amazon Triples Quarterly Profit As Cloud Surges" - Barrons article
Seller_27lQXuZPqUkar
Amazon appears to be passing their costs onto us.
It will make many products not worth selling on Amazon.
Still, it depends what Amazon's strategy is. When it was the "everything store," they had to make it possible for Sellers to make a profit selling on Amazon even if the item was low dollar value.
Hopefully, they are intentionally making the shift to a more limited group of sellers. I doubt it though, as AWS cannot make up for significant losses in revenue caused by lost sellers.
Seller_27lQXuZPqUkar
Amazon appears to be passing their costs onto us.
It will make many products not worth selling on Amazon.
Still, it depends what Amazon's strategy is. When it was the "everything store," they had to make it possible for Sellers to make a profit selling on Amazon even if the item was low dollar value.
Hopefully, they are intentionally making the shift to a more limited group of sellers. I doubt it though, as AWS cannot make up for significant losses in revenue caused by lost sellers.
