Sometimes I am staggered at what people do. We Always try and help customers where we can and our service record shows that but in over 7 years the worse case of buyer manipulation ever. Really not sure what to do so answers on a postcard.

A customer buys a personalised item of clothing and we ship tracked 48 as always within 24 hours. After we shipped the item the customer asks to change the size. We said we would assist the customer where possible to soften the blow of their mistake so contact us when they receive it. The item was delivered 4 days ago. This morning with no further messages and A-Z saying hasn't arrived and 10 minutes later an order in the size they wanted their order changed to. What would you suggest. Clearly I will appeal the A-Z but pointless I guess.

So after a lot of back and forth I have finally gotten to the bottom of the problem.

Customer wanted a straw hat. My hats are made of simulated straw (and says so in description). So their actual complaint was bogus as they had not read the description correctly and the fact they used 'inauthentic' in their complaint caused so much aggravation. The customer was just a normal customer - they had no authority on the issue, were not brand holder or anything so for Amazon to give any credence to such a complaint in the first place was a bit ridiculous.

Nevertheless, Amazon wanted last 365 days invoices from my supplier. I got my supplier to send me copies of all invoices from May 2023. I would send invoices, Amazon would come back to say they could not verify supplier (they had made no attempt at even contacting supplier as I asked the supplier) so then Amazon wanted suppliers supplier invoices. I would explain there was no suppliers supplier as I bought directly from the manufacturer who designed and produced the hat. Then Amazon would ask for last 365 days invoices, I provided and whole sequence kept repeating.

Finally an Account Health Specialist I spoke to (for the third time on the issue) said that if I went to Manage Orders, and searched last 365 days for the ASIN that the number Amazon said I had sold was greater than the number of units I had bought on the invoices.

So I checked - the trouble was

1. As Amazon kept asking for invoices from last 365 days and that is what I provided - items sold May 2023 were actually bought in April 2023 - so these invoices were missing and this stock meant my total bought was higher than Amazon calculated just from looking at last 365 days. So I provided invoices from April 2023 to May 2024 instead

2. Looking at the sales Amazon said I had made I realised they were counting orders made - not sales. There were many refunds where customer had returned the hat and it had then gone back into stock and re-sold. So the number reported by Amazon was higher than actual sales.

Taking into account units bought in April 2023 and the returned/re-sold items and it proved I had bought more units than had actually sold.

When appealing , Amazon only allows files to be uploaded and has no box for additional information. So I created a Word document containing the above information with actual figures showing my calculations and finally Amazon have agreed I can continue selling the item.

So for a month now I have been tied up on the issue. And all because Amazon gave credence to 1 complaint out of 1000 from someone who had no authority on the issue - and because Amazon could not understand basics of having to buy in stock before it can be sold (hence they needed more than last 365 days invoices) and the fact they were counting orders made and not actual sales.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

The error message prevents me from accessing my seller account, which means I can't see or process any orders which means my account will be at risk of deactivation.

I have tried to add a new charge method as my old card is no longer valid.

I have tried two different cards and still get the same error message. THERE WAS A PROBLEM. PLEASE CHECK ALL DETAILS ARE CORRECT.

All card details ARE correct, name spelled correctly, number, expiry date (which expires in about 9 months, not 6 or under). amazon have my same address as a bank.

I try several times until I can't try until 24 hours due to security reasons.

I have opened several cases with Amazon and no resolution. I have been told I need to verify my old card - I can't do as the bank account no longer exists.

I have been told get a Credit card instead.

Other Amazon reps have talked me through the process to add new charge method which I have already done so many times and the same happens. Error message appears.

I have screenshotted error message and I am getting nowhere!

Has anyone found a resolution to this? Please help, so frustrated

Hello, I have been talking to amazon for weeks now about inventory that we sent that they claim the contents didnt arrive.

The next step would be to take them to small claims court. Has anyone done this before?

Just to explain what happened: we send boxes to Amazon on 1 May 2024 via their own UPS service. They were tracked and delivered. The boxes were 15kg each (two inner cartons) with 32 units per box (around 330g each). Totalling 64 units.

They started checking them in, then weeks passed and the checked in quantity stayed on 0. It then eventually said that the shipment was complete and that it was short by 64 units(!).

I made the online request on the shipment for a review, and they said they recounted the stock across the warehouse and found 3 extra products of ours, but a different SKU (I assume this was nothing to do with the shipment, but just three extra items after a re-count)

I contacted them and asked them to investigate, after two weeks they came back and said that the investigation was complete and that they didnt receive any goods. They scanned in the boxes, the boxes were 15kg each. So how on earth have no items been checked off. According to their logic the boxes must have been empty because, of course, they cant possibly have lost the stock or boxes somewhere.

Is the next step making a claim through the courts? Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi, my account is suspended and I made an appointment for a video verification.

The 1st appointment was on June 14 at 11am and I never received notification that that appointment was successful.

The 2nd appointment was on June 17th at 11am, but until now I have not received notification of the success of that appointment.

How can I receive the email notification 48 hours before the video review? Thanks

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! ! !

B0CB5CGGDS, B0BHWM4BBF, B0CGMWJ2T3, B0BBDVQ846

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

Is there an office I can come to and get information about the verification delay? Does face-to-face communication speed up the process?

Hello,

I find it extremely concerning that if as a seller, I'm not meeting the target rate of below 5% for uploading an invoice within 24 hours of a customer payment, I am at risk of deactivation.

If this is such a sensitive metric that can lead to de-activation of an account, why isn't there a notification alert from Amazon requesting sellers to upload the invoice within 24 hours of the payment being made with the order I.D for said invoice each time? We get an email alert to respond to buyers messages within 24 hours of the buyer message for instance.

As sellers, we have a host of duties to perform. Do they expect us to check the orders page every few hours to ensure this mundane task is promptly met within a very narrow timeframe each time? This is extremely unreasonable in my humble opinion. I would like to adhere to this, however, life gets in the way, and without notification prompts, this is very difficult to adhere to ALL OF THE TIME.

Is there a way to receive an alert from Amazon each time an order is placed requiring an invoice to be uploaded?

I have auto invoices set up for all the countries where I have VAT registration, but occasionally, you get orders from other EU countries that do not have VAT registration, thus making this task difficult to adhere to without fail.

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I wish we could agree as a seller community to share the Buy Box rather than trying to monopolize it

Unfortunately, that is illegal.

It is up to you what strategy you take and what margin is acceptable. You could move on to a different product, monitor the original product and come back to it later, continue to sell the product, whist trying to compete and making a negligible profit until the other seller (or you) goes bust or gives up on that product, or continue at a reasonable price, taking a small proportion of the Buy Box when the other sellers run out of stock, but making a profit on those sales.

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I’m really sorry to start another thread about this but I have had absolutely no help regarding what appears to be a a glitch with my payment every Monday for the last month.

I have posted on here and no reply was given, I have also reported the issue to seller support twice and was given a different answer both times.

Copied from my other thread:

Hi can someone please help me with this issue which I have explained in the previous posts with my payment card becoming invalid every Monday This has now happened every Monday for the last 4 weeks when Amazon presents my balance payment to me. I have told seller support but they can’t explain to me why this is happening first week they say it must be a problem with my bank or card, It’s not as I have checked with my bank and last week they said I had to wait 24 hours for it to be verified. However this doesn’t explain why this keeps happening

.Every Monday at around 6.30pm I receive a email telling me my payment is on its way, then a few minutes later I get another email telling me Action Required: Please Update Your Amazon Selling Account Credit Card. I re add my card it’s tells me it’s valid and has been verified but I’m still locked out of my selling account, it takes a few tries and several hours until the next morning for me to be able to get back into my account, and then it all starts all over again on the next Monday. To me this seems to be glitch, I’ve had no issues receiving my balance from Amazon in this time period.

Please can this be sorted as it’s stressful and frustrating for this to happen every Monday.