ICYMI Amazon Seller News May 24, 2019
- Lena R. Liberman
- On May 24, 2019
- amazon fba fee changes, amazon seller news
Amazon Seller News
- Quick Stat: Sellers have registered over 130,000 brands in Amazon Brand Registry.
- Important Date: June 15, 2019 is Fulfillment by Amazon’s next scheduled long-term storage fee inventory cleanup. For details, see FBA long-term storage fees.
- Amazon has added “Suspected Intellectual Property Violations, Restricted Products Policy Violations, and Customer Product Reviews Policy Violations to the Account Health experience.” Info at More Visibility into Policy Violations That Could Affect Your Account Health
- Increase Sales and Get Storage Fee Discounts of 50% to 75%: Starting in June 2019, for a limited time, sellers may qualify to “pay lower monthly inventory storage fees on your eligible products when you maintain our suggested inventory levels. To find out which products qualify for discounts of up to 75%, visit Target inventory monthly storage fee promotion.”
- Expect to hear more soon from Seller Labs on this Amazon FBA promotional offer. In the meantime, you may be interested in Amazon Wants 3rd-Party Sellers to Send in Tons of Stock to Help with Its One-Day Delivery Push.
Amazon and the Law
- Apple, Amazon, Google, and Others Sued for Selling Thousands of Pirated Recordings
- Amazon Ducks Liability for Defective Third-Party Products
Shareholders and Social Responsibility
- Amazon Shareholders Vote Down Proposals on Facial Recognition and Climate Change
- Amazon Weathers Contentious Shareholder Meeting, as Investors and Workers Press for Change
- Jeff Bezos Blew Off Amazon Employees’ Proposal at the Shareholder’s Meeting and They Were Miffed: ‘This is not the kind of leadership we need.’
Privacy, Security, and Your Data (Now with more Ice-T)
- Amazon Is 3D-Scanning People’s Bodies in Exchange for Gift Cards
- Ice-T Says He ‘Almost Shot’ an Amazon Delivery Driver for ‘Creeping Up’ to His Home
Brand News and Private Label
Warehouses, Workers, Warnings, and Waste
- Amazon Is Trying to Make Working in Its Warehouses Like Playing a Video Game
- “Amazon After” Helps You Sell, Donate, Recycle, or Rent Out Your Past Amazon Purchases
- Amazon Is Building Special Warehouses for Hazardous Items
Amazon + Apple = No Resellers Allowed
- Apple and Amazon Cut a Deal That Upended the Mac Resale Market
- Apple’s Deal to Sell on Amazon Directly Is Crushing Small Resellers by Design
Bricks and Mortar
Amazon International
- Amazon Will Now Let Users Book Flights in India
- Amazon Secures Its Own ‘.amazon’ Domain
- Amazon Invests in Deliveroo Food Courier
Amazon Over the Time: A Historical Perspective
- Amazon’s Priorities Over the Years, Based on Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders
- Amazon’s Vendor Incentive Program, Nine Months In
Upcoming Webinars
- Don’t Let the Bad Guys In or Let Them Win! (How Amazon Sellers Can Survive — and Thrive — in a World of Black-Hat Tactics) hosted by Jeff Cohen and Davide Nicolucci on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 2:00 PM EDT. Register and learn how to protect yourself profitably.
- Prime Day Push: Advertising Must Do’s to Increase Sales on Prime Day | June 19, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
- REPLAY: Lessons Learned from Prime Day 2018 & How to Succeed for Prime Day 2019 | Recorded Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
The Week’s Seller Labs Articles and Amazon Seller News
- 3 Amazon PPC Management Tactics for Prime Day 2019
- [Tip Sheet] 4 Amazon PPC Dayparting Tips to Improve Sponsored Products Ads
Get the Latest Amazon Research & Strategy
Subscribe to the Seller Labs Newsletter for More Info, News, Tools, and Resources for Amazon Success.
