Recently a buyer purchased an £500 iPhone. They contacted us to advised that the phone was faulty due to a display problem. We advised to open a return. The phone was received back and the screen was smashed. (Done whilst Buyer was using as the phone had been setup and their details were on it.)

We contacted the buyer to advise this is not covered under warranty so they immediately opened an A-Z claim.

Amazon asked for additional information and stated we had 72 hours to supply. All requested information was given and within 44 hours we received an email advising us to return the item to the customer, upload tracking to Amazon and we had 72 hours to do so.

Then just 9 minutes later the A-Z claim was closed with a defect applied and full refund to the customer as we had "you have not provided the locked device return tracking number as requested."

Numerous appeals have been lodged but Amazon will not admit culpability. So we are posting in here to let people know that 72 hours can actually mean just 9 minutes

We have became aware of a growing trend from Amazon of their customer service reps just issuing refunds and not telling you, not explaining or qualifying this and not even remotely updating you.

Is anyone experincing this as well ?

The example I will give is an order yesterday, the customer opened a return request for the item, this was auto authorised, with a pre paid label issued.

Neither item from two orders has been returned, the customer stated they suspected that something had happened and maybe they had been sent to Amazons returns instead of us ? the tracking clearly shows that Royal Mail have not at all picked them up and the customer still has them.

Last night the customer emailed us to say they had contacted Amazon, it was all sorted and they had been refunded.

I checked my emails, nothing from Amazon reps at all, I checked my balance and they have refunded two orders from my balance and the customer still has both items.

The only email was a standard refund email, nothing about this at all, so it could have easily been missed if the customer had not emailed us.

First and foremost, I want to say this is not an isolated incident, there have been several random refunds with no return requests, no messages and no emails.

So are Amazon just handing out our money left right and centre with no checks and balances as that this is grossly unfair on sellers with no comeback, no right to know and you may not even know its happened to you !!!!!!

Come on Amazon kindly explain why your reps are doing this and not even bothering to tell us ? its appalling really, your reps should at least notify us so we can monitor them.

Does anyone know how to check every single return to see who authorised it ? as I see a small claim coming on

I have sent a pallet in to LBA4 which is showing as receiving just 8 out of 304 units on board. Now the FC can't find the remainder of the 350kg pallet

Around the same time I sent a small box into LBA4 - which is showing as missing 8 units - the same ASIN showing as the 8 received on the pallet.

I'm no Einstein but it looks to me like the FC has marked the 8 units as received from the wrong shipment.

I suspect they are now searching for a pallet which they think has started to be unpacked - but actually the pallet has not been touched and is probably sitting with a pile of other 'mislabelled/misplaced' pallets at LBA4

Could an AMZ mod please help out - Seller Support just can't get their head around the fact a mistake might have been made at their end

This could help with the current backlog at LBA4 which I understand is pretty backed up

Case ID 11201218842

@Seller_mIRnuhdx7l5sN @Seller_ZyGdB49sb7An4 @Seller_Udi0JNbTrsmUV

Hoping we can get some help here, we’ve made many cases on SS but the majority are not understanding the situation and we are losing thousands per month which will only increase if this is not sorted soon. We are currently 6 months in regarding the issue without a resolution.

The issue:

Amazon automatically and suddenly after 1 years of selling decided to change the visibility of our Brand and ASINs (not sure how, maybe browse node?), which in turn has made our listing unsearchable for all organic keywords. (not indexed)

We are only currently searchable by Amazon ads / searching our ASIN directly / searching for long tail low volume phrases / searching our brand name. Everything else, we have completely lost rank for.

I have provided evidence of this attached to case ID: 11204681412, for our main high volume keywords our ASIN used to have around 2.5% share of the impressions (we were consistntly top 10 on the first page organically) but 6 months ago this has fallen to 0%. Since then our organic rank has disappeared completely with our ASIN not being able to be found on any of the pages for the same keywords (hence 0% asin impression share).

We can also tell we have lost rank because our sales have gone from 40+ per day to 1-2 (which the ads are contributing to, as these still seem to work)

I have also tried to manually do an upload file to try to change the browse nodes, but this has not worked. The browse nodes were fine for 1+ years and are still correctly asigned in the backend of my listing.

Seller support say the listing is active, the asins in question are not flagged as adult products and the search feature is working as it should before proceeding to send me listing optimisation articles all of which I have read.

I am running out of options, therefore decided to put out this post to see if an Amazon admin or anyone on the forum can help us solve this. We are generating no organic sales, and losing all our rank to competitors which we spent 1.5 years gaining.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Referring to the discussion https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/seller-forums/discussions/t/b211474c-6df1-4863-9e52-0b377e8c85d6

Someone from Amazon said they will look into my issue but the thread just got closed and I haven't heard from Amazon ever since, except that Amazon tries to Charge my card again and again for higher amounts each month.

What do I do?