So I have just come across a refund given by Amazon to a customer for a bespoke order.

I was blissfully unaware of there being an issue with any order.

The order came in yesterday and had a note on the order with this incredibly rude message "Do not disappoint me please. I need this ASAP"

Anyway needless to say it was a next day order so I immediately processed the requirements and put this on a next day tracked.

It was received at 10.46am. By 12.46pm, I had a note from Amazon to tell me the order has been refunded.

No A-Z claim, no dialogue with the customer or even an explanation from Amazon why this order has been refunded.

I contacted Amazon and raised a Safe T claim. The safe T claim was instantly denied and I immediately put in an appeal and just waiting on the outcome.

I contacted Amazon seller support and they stated another department had refunded this without giving any explanation other than the customer claims to have received the wrong item.

In what World does an Amazon rep hand out a refund without an A-Z or querying with me first for a refund. The order value I think is irrelevant in this case but to me it is substantial and I am waiting for an explanation.

We have had a customer put an A-Z in for an undelivered item reason below:

'Package didn't arrive' and customer comments;

'Customer comments: Is anything missing? Yes. What's missing? The entire package or received empty package. Did your address change? No. Reason Code: NOT_RECEIVED'

The item has been delivered with the POD image and the customer signature, this info was sent to the customer and they said they never sent for an A-Z claim and called us liars etc etc..

Sent a screenshot of the A-Z claim that was submitted with 'customer comments' and again they said they never did this, I explained to them that this was unlikely as it is usually triggered by a buyer contacting Amazon, however I can understand how the use of Amazon and contacting sellers via the messaging centre can be confusing etc..

They eventually agree to contact Amazon to remove the A-Z claim, which after about 24hrs it was.

Then this morning we have had an email saying;

'Your account has been debited the original shipping amount for order 206-1557330-1374740. This is because you did not refund the buyer for those costs.

As the buyer returned the item you are required to refund the original shipping costs'

Firstly, we are only required to refund shipping costs if the item is faulty and returned, of which the appliance is NOT faulty, and has NOT been returned?!?!'

Why have we been charged for the shipping costs we have passed on from the courier to transport a 55kg box over 1.5m long over water to the customers house, for no apparent reason or proof.

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I am aware of topics the last few months with glitches forcing sellers to ship EVRI.

The last decade of order, Royal Mail no problem.

The odd time the system glitches and only shows EVRI, but a quick page refresh and Royal Mail comes up.

Today with one order no chance. Have refreshed, logged in and out and no chance - only EVRI

I notice the small print. Is that right I am going to have to set up an EVRI account for this one order?

"I hereby agree that I have read and accepted the HERMES Terms and Conditions for this service.

Important: Evri requires sellers to create an account on their platform to process shipments. Please create an account with EVRI using this link before purchasing their shipping services"

Hi

A few months ago booking through the Amazon partner carrier program the tracking changed from colection included to having to pay cash on collection.

A temporary work around was to use an old tracking number to get UPS to collect but now I'm getting UPS saying that they've collected when the driver never turned up. If I try to raise a complaint with UPS they ask for tracking which as it's an old number will say collected and deliered.

Has anyone managed to resolve this problem yet?

Just a heads up for fellow sellers, just check your handling time again, as it looks as though Amazon have decided they know better than me for my handling times and put it back on automated as same day dispatch.

I didn't realise they had access to my diary and daily whereabouts!!

Amazon - stop making these changes - you are affecting our (your) metrics.