Amazon Unsolicited Email Opt Out Update
Amazon seems to be rather hot and cold as of late when it comes to emailing buyers. First, Amazon allowed its buyers to opt-out of unsolicited seller messages, which created panic and confusion when sellers...
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MWS Developer Access Confirmation Explained
Amazon recently updated how it enables sellers to authorize third-party access through MWS. When a seller authorizes a third-party service like Seller Labs to access their seller account through MWS, they now receive an email...
Amazon Now Allows Shoppers to Opt Out of Unsolicited Emails
Amazon updated its Buyer-Seller Messaging system on March 28, 2017, to allow shoppers to opt-out of unsolicited emails sent from third-party sellers. Up until the announcement, shoppers were not able to opt-out of unsolicited seller...
Fighting a Baseless Trademark Complaint on the Amazon Platform
This article was originally contributed by CJ Rosenbaum, Attorney & Partner at Rosenbaum, Famularo & Segall, P.C., BrandProtectionAmazon.com & AmazonSellersLawyer.com. Amazon has finally adjusted their policies when it comes to Intellectual Property complaints. Until recently,...
Amazon Brand Gating Policy Update
Amazon will now be charging a non-refundable, one-time application fee of $1,000 to $5,000 for third-party merchants to sell popular brands on its site. And even then, merchants aren’t guaranteed access without the necessary documentation...
When Product Liability Insurance Makes Sense for your Amazon FBA Business
Importing products from Chinese manufacturers to fuel private label Amazon FBA business has become the preferred strategy for many sellers over the past 18 months. As simple as many sellers may make it seem to...
Amazon Email Sequence: A Guide to Avoid Over Messaging
I communicate with sellers on a daily basis. I find it deflating when I see poor reviews on an account because a seller is sending too many emails. But this can be easily avoided. Sending more...
MWS Auth Tokens Explained
There has recently been a bit of discussion about a new “Auth Token” requirement for the Marketplace Web Services (MWS) API that third-party merchants like Seller Labs uses to communicate with Amazon Sellers’ accounts. The...
Avoid Having Your Amazon Listings Being Inactive and Blocked
We have been hearing a lot of complaints from Merchants whose Amazon listings are blocked. If you are looking at something like this in your seller central inventory view. It means for some reason that...