Hi whats the easiest way to put all my listed items into my Amazon shop ?

Had a good few years on amazon but sales have now completely collapsed. Nothing changed and simply dont know why the sudden loss in sales. So we are closing the shop and solely replying on our own website. Has anyone else closed their amazon store and gone solo with their own website? We are sick of the continuous jumping through hoops, customers fraudulently making claims, bad service by royal mail, and the DD+7 payment disbursements. Its simply not worth selling on here. Cost of advertising is through the roof as are the fees. Anyone else gone through similar?

The machines can’t accurately measure parcels sent in poly bags. We previously received thousands of pounds in incorrect surcharges, all of which were eventually credited back to us.

Other couriers stopped using these machines because they were unreliable, particularly as such a large proportion of parcels are sent in poly bags. Royal Mail, however, still purchased the machines, which apparently didn’t even fit properly in the building.

As you are using Royal Mail as your courier, is there any specific reason why you do not want to use buy shipping?

Apart from major bulk discount, everything stays the same, including average weight and your annual postings, as it is all through your RM account number.

Integrating your Royal Mail account into Amazon allows you to keep your negotiated Royal Mail rates and gives you the protections on your OTDR as well as VTR and a few other protections from negative feedback over courier deliveries.

All your buy shipping mail can go in the same bags as your Click & Drop mail as long as it is the same stream, ie T24 RM48 etc.

There is no need to separate Amazon mail from your other mail, just the need to download the end of day manifest for your postman to scan as well as your C&D manifest.

Although it is very maddening that Amazon have deactivated you for using Royal Mail, but will reactivate you if you use Royal Mail through their Buy Shipping settings.

Nothing has changed, same company, same staff, same network, same everything except Amazon has it run through them for whatever reason they have decided.

But unfortunately, it is their sandbox and their rules.

If you send out Amazon Prime, it is contractual for you to use Buy Shipping in order to be able to ship Prime.

Personally, i prefer Buy Shipping over C&D as it is more stable, especially at Christmas when C&D goes offline several times for hours, causing stress not being able to produce any labels.

Anazon won’t phone you unless you are on the Professional plan and raise a case asking g for a call back- sometimes even that doesn’t work