Fellow sellers, I'm seeking some advice on a frustrating situation I've encountered with another seller undercutting repeatedly.

I initially found a product with great profit margins over 100% ROI and there is about 10-15 sellers. I matched the current Buy Box price and sales were going well for about a month. Then yesterday, another seller started hugging the Buy Box, going just 1p below the current buy box.

It's evident they are using a repricing tool to constantly undercut the lowest price by 1p in order to solely maintain the Buy Box themselves. While I understand the motivation to capture all the Buy Box sales, it's exasperating when sellers configure repricers so aggressively just to box others out.

This particular seller has over 200 seller feedbacks, so they are an experienced seller who surely understands pricing strategies. As a result of their relentless undercutting, my potential ROI on this product has plummeted from over 100% down to only 5-10%.

I've now sold out of my inventory for this item. My question for everyone reading is would you continue sourcing more of this product knowing you'll likely just enter another Buy Box battle? Or would you cut your losses and move on to other products?

I'm all for healthy price competition, but it feels unethical when sellers setup repricers to continuously undercut by the smallest increments just to own the Buy Box. I wish we could agree as a seller community to share the Buy Box rather than trying to monopolize it. But I realize that's unlikely to happen.

Any thoughts or advice on how to approach this type of situation would be appreciated.

Here's to better seller karma for all of us.

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I have been harvesting and making these seaweed capsules for the last six years.

I cannot see the point of building up a brand and amazon remove it without any good reason.

Amazon say it needs approval but it already has approval already,

When you click on the approval it says amazon no longer are accepting "We are not accepting applications to sell

Amazon want the remaining 86 removed, I also just shipped 112 tubs which arrived today.

is there a way to reinstate this listing?

Is this normal practise ?

The other problem I have you cannot return them to n Ireland.

kind regards

Trevor

Received a policy warning that someone had made a counterfeit/authenticity claim on a product I sell.

Now as I buy the product direct from the manufacturer who designed and make the item, and I have been selling it for several years I wasn't unduly worried.

So I go into appeal - and it asks me to submit invoice dated within last 90 days and also dated before the claim was made showing I bought at least 10 units.

So I send in invoice from 9th May showing 25 units bought.

Now I get an email saying the information was not sufficient. Amazon now want me to submit invoices for last 365 days showing total units matching what I have sold over the last 365 days!!

This is frankly ridiculous - I have submitted last 6 months worth invoices and a Letter of Authority from the manufacturer giving me re-sell rights. Im not going back further. This is not Amazon seeing if item is counterfeit - it cannot be as I buy direct from the manufacturer who designed and make the item. It is either a competitor making an unsubstantiated claim or Amazon themselves who want to start selling the item for themselves and checking to see how many units I sell through other channels because they can now see how many units I bought and they know how many I sold on Amazon.

Im getting very disheartened with selling on Amazon with their constant interference in my business and constant requests for documentation. I also received yet another request from Amazon to prove my VAT status because they say the name on their records does not match up with my VAT Certificate. Strange how this test passed before. Anyway, so I have had to download and send in my VAT Certificate yet again - and lo and behold the names match exactly between the Certificate (that they have had now several times) and the name in Amazon Business Information. Im seriously thinking of quitting altogether.

In my opinion after selling on Amazon for 15 years now, hitting nearly £1m in sales and five staff to sales of 100k and no staff. The UK is heading closer to a Depression, Online sales has had its time, shoppers are hitting the high streets or just doing without.

We list our products as both seller fulfilled and FBA - so we have two SKUs for one ASIN - and have done for over 15 years. Amazon are now saying that we can’t do this… does anyone else offer their products under FBA and merchant fulfilled and having the same issue?

Hello

On May 14, 2024, without any notification or performance, my entire account's shopping cart was lost. Buyers can no longer find my products on the search page, and my orders dropped from 800 orders per day to 80 orders per day, which is a devastating blow to me.

Attached are some of the asins, please note that all asins in the entire account are lost! ! !

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I checked all the indicators, everything is normal, no credit card refunds, store feedback is 100%, and all our conditions meet the requirements of featured offers.

I think this is a mistake by Amazon, and I hope you can help me solve this problem.

Who will bear my losses and my orders?@Spencer_Amazon

Dear Amazon Seller Community,

We are reaching out in desperation as we have been facing significant issues with our Amazon seller account since January 25th. For the past six months, we have been diligently working to prove our UK establishment status, but to no avail.

Here's a brief timeline of our situation:

January 25: We began the process of proving our UK establishment status.

May 1: Our account was suddenly blocked with the reason: "We have concluded that your selling account has failed the business establishment verification process that is associated with your value-added tax (VAT), and your account will remain deactivated."

Since then, we have submitted numerous appeals and provided extensive documentation to prove our status. Despite our continuous efforts, the result remains the same – our account is still blocked. Today, we received another response confirming that our account remains deactivated.

We are even prepared to accept being recognized as a non-UK establishment, but it seems this will not lift the account block either. We have been selling on Amazon since 2021 and never expected that our business could be destroyed overnight due to this issue.

We are at our wits' end and do not know what more we can do to resolve this situation. Our business is on the brink of collapse, and we urgently need guidance and assistance. Has anyone else faced a similar situation? What steps did you take to resolve it? Any advice or support would be immensely appreciated.

Thank you for your understanding and help.

Pardon for my ignorance as I am new here. I am planning to sell and ship items that can be in a small letter size envelope. I just simply need advise as to what would be the best shipping option for me. I thought Royal mail second class that is worth 85p would be quite sensible. Please let me know your ideas. Many thanks in advance!

If you want to use Royal Mail 2nd class 85p you will have buy via Amazon Buy Shipping as any other method is NOT valid for VTR that is you buy it a Post Office then it be killer for your VTR rate Please also note that buying a book of stamps is also not acceptable to Amazon for VTR either,

Also you leave your self open to lots of Fraud with non delivery claims

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Hi Folks,

Been trying to finish my sole trader account setup but seems to be a problem when it comes to Letter Of authorization. Keep saying random excuses:

1. We are contacting you as we are unable to validate the status of the signatory of the letter of authorization as a legal representative of the business, due to the reasons listed below.

OR

2. The document 'Letter of authorization' that you provided did not confirm that the primary contact person who is registered in Seller Central is a legal representative of the business.

when they have asked for this:

Letterhead of the company

LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE CONFIRMATION

The undersigned **name of Company here** (herein after, the "Company"), duly represented by (name, date of birth, and function) **add full name, date of birth, and function of the signatory here**, confirms that **add full name of the signatory of the letter of authorization and their job title/role here** is a legal representative of the Company.

Dated this:

Signed By:

I've filled this out as per seller central word for word and keep bouncing back this would be around 15 times now trying to tweak it a bit but still the same anyone recently experiencing the same problems

Please Help