Hi, I am letting people know that Amazon have changed their policy on Royal mail 2D Bar codes i.e Royal Mail scanned on delivery. Sometime ago I raised this with Amazon that all our packages have "valid tracking" but Royal mail only scan about 80% and was told not to worry as Amazon are aware and will disregard if when needed we provide valid tracking proof. ie we sent them copies of the delivery label. Well that has changed. Last Friday some listings were deactivated and I had to provide the appeal which I did as usual, but this time it was turned down After a long conversation the result was we either change to a different post method (which would add about £1.00 to the cost and on cheap items that is a big percentage) or buy the same service from Amazon!

I am uncertain what the motive behind this is, to be competitive we will need to buy postage from Amazon? What I tried to explain is that as far as the customer is concerned there will be no improvement Royal mail will continue to fail scanning packages. In addition as we use 3rd party software to process all orders, will it be more difficult? Will Amazon then get details of my orders from Ebay and our own website? I think this stinks and anyone using Royal Mail 24 / 48 (CRL) should take note. Short term we will change to Royal Mail Tracked and accept less orders, longer terms we may have to buy shipping from Amazon, but before we do we need to consider the pros and cons

Thank you for letting us know, as i do still use this on the odd occasion!

Just a shoutout to you, depending on your volume, of course, we got Royal Mail Tracked rates cheaper than RM 24/48 CRL, I would give ask to get some rates from your Account manager.

Thanks

Thankyou for the info, we only use CRL for large letters which for us is cheaper (£1.25) than 48 tracked. For packages and more expensive large letters we use tracked and signed which as you say is cheaper and better. Interestingly on the category which has been suspended our VTR is 90% so suspension seems harsh to say the least

I think we have to face different issues; one is the bots that change category, and then you have a set of candles under sports - golf etc. The other issues is sellers who create listings without thinking. My favourite has to be those that copy the text of the wholesaler's product page including things like:

"this wholesale product comes in a cartoon of 24 units",

"check our website for other similar products that your customers will love"

"EAN 52098900938942"

"Thinking of visiting our showroom? Drop us a line and you will get a 10% discount"

"assorted colours and sizes in each cartoon"

"This Purchase is 24 Units "

"RRP £24.99"

We always have to be careful where we list our offers as the risk of having returns is very high if there is misleading information, some customers also try it on at the first occasion. I am expecting a A-Z any minute now as a customer complained that she got only one pack when in the listing there is a photo with three packs. The title and description are ok this time, they clearly state it's ONE pack but still.. I told her to return it if not happy but she wanted a refund and keep the item

We have had 2 returns initiated recently due to errors in the titles of an item.

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Amazon Title - Annie Pattern, with Zip

Title should be IMHO - ByAnnie Out and About PBA282 sewing instructions to make your own Rucksack / Backpack / Knapsack in two sizes. Clear concise instructions

We listed on this item via the upc format.

However the title is incorrect both grammaticaly and factually which has caused one of the returns (amazon automatically issued a return label costing us £3.30 for a letter sized item below 100g on an item that we are selling for £12.50 inc postage))

We have tried many times to correct several of these but as on this one where someone has lited it as a brand called annie instead of the correct ByAnnies you get stumped when trying to get anything changed. Have tried today to add some bullet points to possibly reduce the amount of returns bt they have not come through yet.

There seams to be a policy of just blocking/making a simple operation very difficult any changes asking for hi res photos etc or supplier details and when we look through our listing we probably have 100+ of these that we would like to change the name to the correct one but dont have the time to jump through all the hoops that amazon want to put in the way when it is obvious that the original poster has made a mistake on the listing.

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Cheers, I've emailed but had no response either.

Not sure how it works myself but I think it's basically just a delay of 7 days + on everything from the 19th

So it'll be a gap of 7 days or more and then you'll be back to where you were on the 19th. I think...

ie. If you earned £100 from dispatched orders on the 19th and £150 on the 20th then you'll have £100 available to take on the 27th (based on next day delivery plus 7 days) and £150 available on the 28th

Not sure if that's quite right but that, or something along those lines, is what I'm expecting.

Seem like Amazon just get to effectively steal 7 days + worth of sales proceeds from us. I say steal, we'll get it back, but only 7 days after we stop trading which will, hopefully, be many years down the line.

We just had a customer order 100 items, total value £7,000. Then claim he got none of them, even though they were delivered, and he's just refunded. So £7,000 down the drain I guess.

Hi, I am a new seller with my own branded garments and have tried to set up my new Amazon store but it is beyond confusing! I already have an ebay store which is so simple to add products to but the amount of information required on Amazon is beyond my capabilities and patience. I am confused by the product codes etc and it keeps telling me to fix errors (54!). I couldn't find the 54 errors so gave up and saved as a draft but when I went back to check, the draft wasn't there.

Are there any professionals out there who can set up or build my store? At this point I would be willing to pay someone to do it for me. I will be selling a range of my own branded mens briefs in a range of 9 plain colours and 5 sizes as well as a range with 7 different patterns in 5 sizes.

Thank you.

For all my items at UK store has been lost buy box. It shows 0%. All other marketplaces shows 98 and more %, and only UK 0%.

I have been wrote to support, but they do not helping me. I want to understand what is the reason of this problem. Account rate is very good, no problems in this. Shipping and all other metrics good. I want to understand the problem, and how to resolve it. I want to understand why at all marketplaces I have buy box, but in UK no. I am selling my own brand with one price. There is not reason to lost it. This is amazon technical mistake, I want someone to resolve this situation.

Amazon have changed their policy on Royal Mail 2D Barcodes (Royal Mail scanned on delivery). Previously, Amazon accepted our valid tracking proof, as Amazon accepted and knew Royal Mail only scan about 80% of packages. However, this has changed. 100% of our orders are sent with VTR, and we only used "scanned on delivery" on very low priced items where it needs to be more competitive

Last Friday, some of our listings were deactivated. When I appealed, it was rejected. After discussing with Amazon, our options are to switch to a different postal method (more expensive) or buy postage from Amazon.

This means we're being forced to buy postage from Amazon to stay competitive, with no real improvement in delivery scans from Royal Mail. Additionally, using our 3rd party software to process orders might become more complicated. Will Amazon access details from eBay and our website orders?

I think this policy change is unfair, and anyone using Royal Mail 24/48 (CRL) should be aware.