You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer. Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Delivery column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the “Match” button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Delivery to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer. Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Delivery column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the “Match” button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Delivery to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
10 replies
Seller_tRuvBEHDedp4q
Can anyone please explain how Amazon manages to collect this data accurately?
It says it will compare against Price + Delivery - I can see how it may collect price data (assuming the product has an attached EAN it can pickup, many websites still do not have this data) but how on earth does it work out Delivery costs?
My website charges for orders under £30 then gives free postage on orders over £30 - so how can this be calculated by Amazon? How does Amazon even manage to find the price I charge for delivery on orders under £30 without going through the ordering process?
Also, what if trade websites has a website with the EAN’s listed against the products and are also often listed ex VAT - how does Amazon know that these items should not be considered as they are listed ex VAT and only available to trade?
Im genuinely confused. I price my products at a price I am comfortable with. I just cant see how Amazon can successfully work out accurately the best competitive price from sources outside Amazon. Im hoping someone can enlighten me.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
The problem is that Amazons whole “competitive” price policy goes out the window when it gives priority to Prime listings.
This is why they are being find millions in other countries, it will happen in the UK too soon.
Also a lot of server now block Amazons aranhabot, as it is very resource hungry and can actually crash your site if left unchecked.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
There is nothing new in it. Amazon has always used this information to give BB to various sellers and suppress it if the price is above their own calculated price for BB. It is just that they now are now giving this information on the Manage Inventory page which was previously available under Pricing Heath page.
As for how they calculate it, it is not possible for each and every product. For product where they have EANs, they can compare easily as they use the same information for their Price Match algorithm. Where this information is not available, they may use their historical data or RRP as suggested by the manufacturer.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
I think Amazon won’t be bothered about such cases (where it is not a well known product) as there’s no comparison to me made by general public. In such cases, they would just follow what the average price has been from all sellers for last X days and use it as a reference point or RRP which could be way off from its actual value.
This recommendation engine is for well known products with RRPs as all Amazon care about to make people think Amazon is cheaper than other retailers or at par with them on price. There last few TV campaigns all focused on that single point and website is following it. For the same reason, Amazon keeps the BB even if they are OOS as they don’t want sellers with higher prices get into the BB and tarnish their cheaper price slogan.
Seller_afyjRDyMeCC5k
We have had to remove products from sale as Amazon is asking us to match our FBA price INCLUDING shipping with the competitors price EXCLUDING shipping.
The competitor adds shipping at check out, based on location and weight, but Amazon is unable or unwilling to take that into consideration. However there is a minimum shipping of £4.99 on the competitor’s site and Amazon Customer Support is refuses to even take that into account or even acknowledge it.
Both Amazon and ourselves are now losing out by removing the buy box, sorry ‘featured offer’, of some top selling lines.
Seller_Af7glnBhOsYro
Why even share information like this? Lets be honest…
Anything that sells well is spotted by Chinese manufacturers, reverse engineered, tweaked and resold as a “patent item”. That’s assuming Amazon don’t start selling it also.
Obviously priced low enough to secure the spot, against some brand that has nothing to do with the item in question so they appear higher up search results - access to brand registry etc.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer. Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Delivery column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the “Match” button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Delivery to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer. Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Delivery column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the “Match” button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Delivery to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
You can now find new and relevant pricing data in Manage Inventory with Pricing Status
Setting a competitive price can increase your chances of being the Featured Offer. Now you can view how your price compares to other prices on or outside of Amazon in the Pricing Status column in Manage Inventory Page.
We are continuously working to make it easier for you to set great prices for your products in our store. With the newly launched Pricing Status feature, you can view how your price compares to other prices on Amazon or outside of Amazon in the Price + Delivery column on the Manage Inventory page. The Pricing Status will show how your price compares to the Featured Offer, Competitive Price and the Lowest Price. You can choose to match any of these prices by clicking on the “Match” button next to the respective price.
To increase your chances of becoming the Featured Offer (Buy Box), consider pricing competitively by setting your Price + Delivery to be less than or equal to the Competitive Price.
Go to Manage Inventory to see your pricing status.
Go to the Pricing Status help page to learn more.
10 replies
10 replies
Seller_tRuvBEHDedp4q
Can anyone please explain how Amazon manages to collect this data accurately?
It says it will compare against Price + Delivery - I can see how it may collect price data (assuming the product has an attached EAN it can pickup, many websites still do not have this data) but how on earth does it work out Delivery costs?
My website charges for orders under £30 then gives free postage on orders over £30 - so how can this be calculated by Amazon? How does Amazon even manage to find the price I charge for delivery on orders under £30 without going through the ordering process?
Also, what if trade websites has a website with the EAN’s listed against the products and are also often listed ex VAT - how does Amazon know that these items should not be considered as they are listed ex VAT and only available to trade?
Im genuinely confused. I price my products at a price I am comfortable with. I just cant see how Amazon can successfully work out accurately the best competitive price from sources outside Amazon. Im hoping someone can enlighten me.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
The problem is that Amazons whole “competitive” price policy goes out the window when it gives priority to Prime listings.
This is why they are being find millions in other countries, it will happen in the UK too soon.
Also a lot of server now block Amazons aranhabot, as it is very resource hungry and can actually crash your site if left unchecked.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
There is nothing new in it. Amazon has always used this information to give BB to various sellers and suppress it if the price is above their own calculated price for BB. It is just that they now are now giving this information on the Manage Inventory page which was previously available under Pricing Heath page.
As for how they calculate it, it is not possible for each and every product. For product where they have EANs, they can compare easily as they use the same information for their Price Match algorithm. Where this information is not available, they may use their historical data or RRP as suggested by the manufacturer.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
I think Amazon won’t be bothered about such cases (where it is not a well known product) as there’s no comparison to me made by general public. In such cases, they would just follow what the average price has been from all sellers for last X days and use it as a reference point or RRP which could be way off from its actual value.
This recommendation engine is for well known products with RRPs as all Amazon care about to make people think Amazon is cheaper than other retailers or at par with them on price. There last few TV campaigns all focused on that single point and website is following it. For the same reason, Amazon keeps the BB even if they are OOS as they don’t want sellers with higher prices get into the BB and tarnish their cheaper price slogan.
Seller_afyjRDyMeCC5k
We have had to remove products from sale as Amazon is asking us to match our FBA price INCLUDING shipping with the competitors price EXCLUDING shipping.
The competitor adds shipping at check out, based on location and weight, but Amazon is unable or unwilling to take that into consideration. However there is a minimum shipping of £4.99 on the competitor’s site and Amazon Customer Support is refuses to even take that into account or even acknowledge it.
Both Amazon and ourselves are now losing out by removing the buy box, sorry ‘featured offer’, of some top selling lines.
Seller_Af7glnBhOsYro
Why even share information like this? Lets be honest…
Anything that sells well is spotted by Chinese manufacturers, reverse engineered, tweaked and resold as a “patent item”. That’s assuming Amazon don’t start selling it also.
Obviously priced low enough to secure the spot, against some brand that has nothing to do with the item in question so they appear higher up search results - access to brand registry etc.
Seller_tRuvBEHDedp4q
Can anyone please explain how Amazon manages to collect this data accurately?
It says it will compare against Price + Delivery - I can see how it may collect price data (assuming the product has an attached EAN it can pickup, many websites still do not have this data) but how on earth does it work out Delivery costs?
My website charges for orders under £30 then gives free postage on orders over £30 - so how can this be calculated by Amazon? How does Amazon even manage to find the price I charge for delivery on orders under £30 without going through the ordering process?
Also, what if trade websites has a website with the EAN’s listed against the products and are also often listed ex VAT - how does Amazon know that these items should not be considered as they are listed ex VAT and only available to trade?
Im genuinely confused. I price my products at a price I am comfortable with. I just cant see how Amazon can successfully work out accurately the best competitive price from sources outside Amazon. Im hoping someone can enlighten me.
Seller_tRuvBEHDedp4q
Can anyone please explain how Amazon manages to collect this data accurately?
It says it will compare against Price + Delivery - I can see how it may collect price data (assuming the product has an attached EAN it can pickup, many websites still do not have this data) but how on earth does it work out Delivery costs?
My website charges for orders under £30 then gives free postage on orders over £30 - so how can this be calculated by Amazon? How does Amazon even manage to find the price I charge for delivery on orders under £30 without going through the ordering process?
Also, what if trade websites has a website with the EAN’s listed against the products and are also often listed ex VAT - how does Amazon know that these items should not be considered as they are listed ex VAT and only available to trade?
Im genuinely confused. I price my products at a price I am comfortable with. I just cant see how Amazon can successfully work out accurately the best competitive price from sources outside Amazon. Im hoping someone can enlighten me.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
The problem is that Amazons whole “competitive” price policy goes out the window when it gives priority to Prime listings.
This is why they are being find millions in other countries, it will happen in the UK too soon.
Also a lot of server now block Amazons aranhabot, as it is very resource hungry and can actually crash your site if left unchecked.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
The problem is that Amazons whole “competitive” price policy goes out the window when it gives priority to Prime listings.
This is why they are being find millions in other countries, it will happen in the UK too soon.
Also a lot of server now block Amazons aranhabot, as it is very resource hungry and can actually crash your site if left unchecked.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
There is nothing new in it. Amazon has always used this information to give BB to various sellers and suppress it if the price is above their own calculated price for BB. It is just that they now are now giving this information on the Manage Inventory page which was previously available under Pricing Heath page.
As for how they calculate it, it is not possible for each and every product. For product where they have EANs, they can compare easily as they use the same information for their Price Match algorithm. Where this information is not available, they may use their historical data or RRP as suggested by the manufacturer.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
There is nothing new in it. Amazon has always used this information to give BB to various sellers and suppress it if the price is above their own calculated price for BB. It is just that they now are now giving this information on the Manage Inventory page which was previously available under Pricing Heath page.
As for how they calculate it, it is not possible for each and every product. For product where they have EANs, they can compare easily as they use the same information for their Price Match algorithm. Where this information is not available, they may use their historical data or RRP as suggested by the manufacturer.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
I think Amazon won’t be bothered about such cases (where it is not a well known product) as there’s no comparison to me made by general public. In such cases, they would just follow what the average price has been from all sellers for last X days and use it as a reference point or RRP which could be way off from its actual value.
This recommendation engine is for well known products with RRPs as all Amazon care about to make people think Amazon is cheaper than other retailers or at par with them on price. There last few TV campaigns all focused on that single point and website is following it. For the same reason, Amazon keeps the BB even if they are OOS as they don’t want sellers with higher prices get into the BB and tarnish their cheaper price slogan.
Seller_Zm6mSLypM9kp8
I think Amazon won’t be bothered about such cases (where it is not a well known product) as there’s no comparison to me made by general public. In such cases, they would just follow what the average price has been from all sellers for last X days and use it as a reference point or RRP which could be way off from its actual value.
This recommendation engine is for well known products with RRPs as all Amazon care about to make people think Amazon is cheaper than other retailers or at par with them on price. There last few TV campaigns all focused on that single point and website is following it. For the same reason, Amazon keeps the BB even if they are OOS as they don’t want sellers with higher prices get into the BB and tarnish their cheaper price slogan.
Seller_afyjRDyMeCC5k
We have had to remove products from sale as Amazon is asking us to match our FBA price INCLUDING shipping with the competitors price EXCLUDING shipping.
The competitor adds shipping at check out, based on location and weight, but Amazon is unable or unwilling to take that into consideration. However there is a minimum shipping of £4.99 on the competitor’s site and Amazon Customer Support is refuses to even take that into account or even acknowledge it.
Both Amazon and ourselves are now losing out by removing the buy box, sorry ‘featured offer’, of some top selling lines.
Seller_afyjRDyMeCC5k
We have had to remove products from sale as Amazon is asking us to match our FBA price INCLUDING shipping with the competitors price EXCLUDING shipping.
The competitor adds shipping at check out, based on location and weight, but Amazon is unable or unwilling to take that into consideration. However there is a minimum shipping of £4.99 on the competitor’s site and Amazon Customer Support is refuses to even take that into account or even acknowledge it.
Both Amazon and ourselves are now losing out by removing the buy box, sorry ‘featured offer’, of some top selling lines.
Seller_Af7glnBhOsYro
Why even share information like this? Lets be honest…
Anything that sells well is spotted by Chinese manufacturers, reverse engineered, tweaked and resold as a “patent item”. That’s assuming Amazon don’t start selling it also.
Obviously priced low enough to secure the spot, against some brand that has nothing to do with the item in question so they appear higher up search results - access to brand registry etc.
Seller_Af7glnBhOsYro
Why even share information like this? Lets be honest…
Anything that sells well is spotted by Chinese manufacturers, reverse engineered, tweaked and resold as a “patent item”. That’s assuming Amazon don’t start selling it also.
Obviously priced low enough to secure the spot, against some brand that has nothing to do with the item in question so they appear higher up search results - access to brand registry etc.
