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Buy Now, Return in January? How the 2022 Amazon Holiday Return Policy Impacts Sellers

With Christmas right around the corner, merchants are already holding their major holiday sales. But on top of traffic and sales spikes comes a deluge of product returns taking a huge bite out of eCommerce profits (including rising logistics costs!). And with the extended Holiday returns window that favors buyers, Amazon sellers expect to see even more items sent back. Here’s what we know about the 2022 Amazon return policy, how it impacts sellers, and what merchants can do to mitigate their holiday returns headaches.

Dealing with a Sale Reversal: Top 7 Practices to Prevent Chargebacks on Your Amazon Store

For Amazon sellers, each customer-disputed transaction is a nasty surprise resulting in a purchase reversal, a refund-related profit loss, and a costly chargeback fee. To protect their earnings and seller account health, Amazon business owners need a proactive chargeback prevention strategy. That’s why we put together seven crucial chargeback protection practices on one page.

Amazon Transparency Program: Another Weapon in the Fight Against Counterfeits

With a slew of ever-emerging black-hat selling schemes, Amazon brand owners should take meaningful steps to eradicate counterfeit products. This is where the Amazon Transparency program plays the leading part. In this article, we cover what the Amazon Transparency Program is, drilling into its eligibility requirements, highlighting the benefits, and touching upon its new Customer Engagement feature launched for the Amazon Transparency app.          

Manage Your Customer Engagement with Amazon

“Manage Your Customer Engagement” is the newest feature Amazon has released to Brand Registered sellers, proving, yet again, that the future of Amazon belongs to brands. This new feature will allow brands to start marketing campaigns for their buyers. Allowing customers to directly interact with your brand will improve customer engagement across the platform. As […]

Own Your Intellectual Property to Resist Amazon Trademark Infringement by Rich Goldstein

Did you know that the butterfly species’ spicebush swallowtail turns green and develops eye spots so that it resembles the head of a smooth green snake? While animals use mimicration in wildlife, entrepreneurs apply imitation skills in many aspects of eCommerce. Using competitors' keywords to optimize product listings or borrowing another marketing strategy is a common practice for any Amazon seller.

What's the Deal with Amazon Logistics?

Since 2005, Amazon has been delivering products to its customers by way of its own package delivery service appropriately named: Amazon Logistics.  The service began as a pilot program more than 10 years ago in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, but has expanded to nearly every major city in the US. Now […]

How to Use Amazon Buyer-Seller Messages

Sending Amazon Buyer-Seller Messages creates a positive customer experience – and don’t forget – the customer experience is Amazon’s top priority. However, after purchase, the only way you can reach shoppers on Amazon is with Buyer-Seller Messaging. The Buyer-Seller Messaging Service lets you communicate with buyers via the buyer-seller messages page. If you have the […]

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