Seller Forums Guidelines
About Amazon Seller Forums
Amazon Seller Forums is an inclusive community designed to help launch and navigate selling in Amazon’s store. With millions of selling partners participating and thousands of new posts each day across a variety of topics, Amazon Seller Forums is a valuable auxiliary resource to accompany Seller University, Seller Support and Amazon’s many other tools, where you can share experiences with fellow selling partners, exchange useful insights from peers or review best practices and updates from Amazon Community Managers all to help grow your business.
Participation in the Seller Forums
It is important to note that content posted within the Seller Forums is publicly available for anyone to view. Only selling partners with a Seller Central account may engage with and post within the Seller Forums. Any identifying information, such as your username, will only be viewable by selling partners accessing the Seller Forums while logged in to their Seller Central account.
Seller Forums Guidelines
To foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for all, we request that you refrain from posting or engaging in the content and activities listed below. Violations of these guidelines, other terms and conditions or Programme Policies may result in the suspension or removal of your Seller Forums posting privileges.
- Content that demonstrates no relevance to selling in the Amazon store or disrupts the effective use of the Seller Forums in any way.
- Commentary that could be considered disrespectful, including insults, personal attacks, spiteful remarks, obscenities, profanity, harassment, bullying, defamatory or inflammatory statements.
- Content that is discriminatory or hateful, including but not limited to commentary based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability.
- For your safety, please do not include personal information such as phone numbers, email addresses, personal addresses, licence numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, any financial information or IP address.
- Political commentary, including opinions and statements about political candidates, parties and policies. This content is not considered relevant to selling in the Amazon store.
- Content that could be considered spam, such as copying and pasting the same post across a number of threads or posting unsolicited links.
- Attempts at impersonating other Selling Partners and/or entities.
- Post links that send users to non-Amazon external websites, URLs or hyperlinks. This includes commercial content such as advertising, promotions or solicitations.
- Content that violates or could potentially violate any laws, including intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of others like copyright, trademark, patent or trade secrets is not allowed.
Guidelines for enforcement
Warnings are an official notice of a violation of these Seller Forum Guidelines that are received through Forums account notifications. Community Managers may edit or remove prohibited content associated with a violation. No action is expected from the selling partner other than reading the warning to understand and correct future behaviour. Repeated warnings or violations of these guidelines may result in a suspension of posting privileges or additional corrective actions.
Suspensions: temporary suspensions may range from 1 to 30 days depending on the severity and nature of the violation. Multiple suspensions over time may lead to permanent removal of posting privileges.
Seller Forums Guidelines
About Amazon Seller Forums
Amazon Seller Forums is an inclusive community designed to help launch and navigate selling in Amazon’s store. With millions of selling partners participating and thousands of new posts each day across a variety of topics, Amazon Seller Forums is a valuable auxiliary resource to accompany Seller University, Seller Support and Amazon’s many other tools, where you can share experiences with fellow selling partners, exchange useful insights from peers or review best practices and updates from Amazon Community Managers all to help grow your business.
Participation in the Seller Forums
It is important to note that content posted within the Seller Forums is publicly available for anyone to view. Only selling partners with a Seller Central account may engage with and post within the Seller Forums. Any identifying information, such as your username, will only be viewable by selling partners accessing the Seller Forums while logged in to their Seller Central account.
Seller Forums Guidelines
To foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for all, we request that you refrain from posting or engaging in the content and activities listed below. Violations of these guidelines, other terms and conditions or Programme Policies may result in the suspension or removal of your Seller Forums posting privileges.
- Content that demonstrates no relevance to selling in the Amazon store or disrupts the effective use of the Seller Forums in any way.
- Commentary that could be considered disrespectful, including insults, personal attacks, spiteful remarks, obscenities, profanity, harassment, bullying, defamatory or inflammatory statements.
- Content that is discriminatory or hateful, including but not limited to commentary based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability.
- For your safety, please do not include personal information such as phone numbers, email addresses, personal addresses, licence numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, any financial information or IP address.
- Political commentary, including opinions and statements about political candidates, parties and policies. This content is not considered relevant to selling in the Amazon store.
- Content that could be considered spam, such as copying and pasting the same post across a number of threads or posting unsolicited links.
- Attempts at impersonating other Selling Partners and/or entities.
- Post links that send users to non-Amazon external websites, URLs or hyperlinks. This includes commercial content such as advertising, promotions or solicitations.
- Content that violates or could potentially violate any laws, including intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of others like copyright, trademark, patent or trade secrets is not allowed.
Guidelines for enforcement
Warnings are an official notice of a violation of these Seller Forum Guidelines that are received through Forums account notifications. Community Managers may edit or remove prohibited content associated with a violation. No action is expected from the selling partner other than reading the warning to understand and correct future behaviour. Repeated warnings or violations of these guidelines may result in a suspension of posting privileges or additional corrective actions.
Suspensions: temporary suspensions may range from 1 to 30 days depending on the severity and nature of the violation. Multiple suspensions over time may lead to permanent removal of posting privileges.
Seller Forums best practices
To make the most of the Seller Forums community, we recommend the following tips for engagement:Share your experiences and solutions
We would love to have you as part of our Forums community. Your posts will be most effective if they are helpful and on topic. If you have an experience or a solution that may help other selling partners, please share it! We also encourage you to interact with other members by offering your insights or answering questions. This fosters an open, collaborative environment.
Search first
Before you start a new thread, see if your question has already been answered. Our community contains millions of previously answered questions that provide a helpful place to start. We’ve made it easier for you to find the most relevant information with our search functionality, allowing you to filter and sort by votes, views, number of discussions and Amazon-verified responses. You can browse by discussions, categories and tags to find answers to your questions. When creating a post, we also suggest other posts that may be relevant to the topic or question you want to discuss.
Community connections
Join our Amazon Community Managers for an opportunity to participate in a variety of thought-provoking topics focused on your experiences selling in the Amazon store, as well as Amazon’s programmes and products. It’s your place to create connections with other selling partners and with our Amazon teams. Your contributions in this category help us facilitate change based on your conversations and constructive feedback.
Engage with Amazon
This is a great tag to keep an eye on if you’re interested in discussing and learning from other Selling Partners’ experiences across our store, programmes and products. Finding us is easy. Just search for this tag to discover discussions focused on diverse topics led by our Community Managers.
Ask Amazon
Looking to participate in a live Ask Amazon event where you have the opportunity to ask questions unique to your business? Search for this tag to connect with our Amazon product teams through our Community Managers to answer your questions live in the forums on a variety of always changing, highly discussed and timely topics. These threads are a great resource to reference even after they’re closed as they preserve valuable information provided directly by our teams.
Seller Forums best practices
To make the most of the Seller Forums community, we recommend the following tips for engagement:Share your experiences and solutions
We would love to have you as part of our Forums community. Your posts will be most effective if they are helpful and on topic. If you have an experience or a solution that may help other selling partners, please share it! We also encourage you to interact with other members by offering your insights or answering questions. This fosters an open, collaborative environment.
Search first
Before you start a new thread, see if your question has already been answered. Our community contains millions of previously answered questions that provide a helpful place to start. We’ve made it easier for you to find the most relevant information with our search functionality, allowing you to filter and sort by votes, views, number of discussions and Amazon-verified responses. You can browse by discussions, categories and tags to find answers to your questions. When creating a post, we also suggest other posts that may be relevant to the topic or question you want to discuss.
Community connections
Join our Amazon Community Managers for an opportunity to participate in a variety of thought-provoking topics focused on your experiences selling in the Amazon store, as well as Amazon’s programmes and products. It’s your place to create connections with other selling partners and with our Amazon teams. Your contributions in this category help us facilitate change based on your conversations and constructive feedback.
Engage with Amazon
This is a great tag to keep an eye on if you’re interested in discussing and learning from other Selling Partners’ experiences across our store, programmes and products. Finding us is easy. Just search for this tag to discover discussions focused on diverse topics led by our Community Managers.
Ask Amazon
Looking to participate in a live Ask Amazon event where you have the opportunity to ask questions unique to your business? Search for this tag to connect with our Amazon product teams through our Community Managers to answer your questions live in the forums on a variety of always changing, highly discussed and timely topics. These threads are a great resource to reference even after they’re closed as they preserve valuable information provided directly by our teams.
About Amazon Community Managers
Community Managers help keep the Seller Forums a welcoming and educational space for everyone. Community Managers have several roles including facilitating meaningful conversation, connecting selling partners and maintaining a safe and inclusive culture in the Forums community. In general, if you have an issue that needs review, please start with submitting a Seller Support case (providing as much detail as possible). This will enable Community Managers to investigate quickly and accurately when questions are asked in the forum. Community Managers may follow up with the Selling Partner where appropriate.
Seller Forums Legal Notice
Content posted to the Seller Forum is the property of Amazon, and your use of the Seller Forums is subject to the terms of your Amazon Business Solutions Agreement, Privacy Notice, Amazon Conditions of Use and these Seller Forums Guidelines. In accordance with Amazon’s Programme Policies, you must not use Seller Forums to violate or encourage others to violate any laws, regulations or Amazon policies. For example, you must not use forums to encourage or commit price fixing, influence customer reviews or encourage or commit any violations of Amazon’s Selling Policies and Seller Code of Conduct.
Amazon reserves the right to update the Seller Forum Guidelines at any time and remove content at any time for any reason, including violations of policy, inaccurate information, privacy-related issues or related to changes in how Seller Forums operates.
If you have questions about your seller account, contact Seller Support.
Last updated February 2nd, 2023.
About Amazon Community Managers
Community Managers help keep the Seller Forums a welcoming and educational space for everyone. Community Managers have several roles including facilitating meaningful conversation, connecting selling partners and maintaining a safe and inclusive culture in the Forums community. In general, if you have an issue that needs review, please start with submitting a Seller Support case (providing as much detail as possible). This will enable Community Managers to investigate quickly and accurately when questions are asked in the forum. Community Managers may follow up with the Selling Partner where appropriate.
Seller Forums Legal Notice
Content posted to the Seller Forum is the property of Amazon, and your use of the Seller Forums is subject to the terms of your Amazon Business Solutions Agreement, Privacy Notice, Amazon Conditions of Use and these Seller Forums Guidelines. In accordance with Amazon’s Programme Policies, you must not use Seller Forums to violate or encourage others to violate any laws, regulations or Amazon policies. For example, you must not use forums to encourage or commit price fixing, influence customer reviews or encourage or commit any violations of Amazon’s Selling Policies and Seller Code of Conduct.
Amazon reserves the right to update the Seller Forum Guidelines at any time and remove content at any time for any reason, including violations of policy, inaccurate information, privacy-related issues or related to changes in how Seller Forums operates.
If you have questions about your seller account, contact Seller Support.
Last updated February 2nd, 2023.
