sold 4 items on FBM Last week… 2 was classed as late… so my LSR is 50% ..

2 orders that was classed as late was dispatched on the ship buy date and was delivered on the due delivery date

will they be classed as late if i drop them at the post office on the ship buy date but dont get collected until following day?

Hi All

Know it is only a small period of 7 days but we are experiencing a huge sales drop of approx. 50%, we are pretty much all FBA.

This is what we would say is our peak time but the last 7 days have been the worst of the year and totally out of character with the previous weeks.

The whole year has tracked pretty much as it should do but the last 7 days has just dropped completely.

Can see sessions have dropped by 45% over that period from the data on reports but no idea why as nothing has changed.

Any ideas or help would really be appreciated

Thanks

Title well explained.

Source: article published by Counterpunch yesterday.

No point of adding links here since non-amazon links are not allowed.

Amazon will definitely pass the costs on to sellers somehow.

I am now intrigued to see how Amazon reacts.

@Seller_mIRnuhdx7l5sN @Seller_gAhPNiLrkfTcr @Seller_Huz6FT08OxHAR

Yesterday I listed a 1980 paperback with a cover price of £1.85. I thought it was quite an interesting book and was well worth ££6 (+ £2.80 postage) There were 5 other sellers. 1 "Collectable" at about £25. There were 3 at about £2.(all GOOD or VERY GOOD But the buy box holder with a NEW book at £1.85 with free postage was .................... Amazon!!

Within 2 hours of listing my book was suspended for "high pricing"

I currently have 9 books suspended for high pricing most of them with this same scenario . ie Amazon claiming to have a NEW copy of a 45 year old book -- listing it at a 45 year old price -- and then saying the average delivery time is 5-6 months.

The reality is ,of course, Amazon do not have a NEW copy of the book and have no prospect of getting one.

When I try to "rectify my error" one of the solutions is to match the lowest price ie £1.85 with free postage. What normal sellers can sell books at this price?

What is really puzzling is that although they are preventing other sellers from selling they themselves cannot sell as they dont actually possess the book.

I am assuming that many other sellers must have noticed this problem. This combined with the "you need permission to sell" problem means there must be many hundreds of thousands of books lying in seller's store rooms with no prospect of ever selling.

Amazon must be persuaded to stop this iniquitous practice

They are currently working on allowing more than 50 ASIN. It is currently designed like that. I have had a couple of instances where more than 50 have been allowed. They said I would still get the savings in these instances.