Whether you feel the golden era of manufactured spending has passed or not, the fact remains that opportunities tend to close faster than new ones open up. Pure manufactured spending (Read: Introduction to Today’s Manufactured Spending) is still viable, but it certainly has gotten harder. Reselling, which I propose to be the next frontier in manufactured…
This is your semi-annual reminder that Fulfillment by Amazon long term storage fees hit 15 August. There are a few key things to note as we approach 15 August. Long Term Storage Fees Assessed on All InventoryA change that Amazon announced at the end of last year, was that Amazon will be assessing long term…
Selling chocolate and other meltable inventory via Amazon is a great gig in the winter, however, during the summer months, Amazon doesn’t fulfill meltable inventory. This is primarily due to the fact that warehouses are hard to keep cool during the summer. As a result, Amazon marks anything “meltable” as “unsellable” from 1 May to…
Earlier this week, Amazon rolled out changes to their Amazon Seller app. I call these changes because, I’m not entirely sure they are all enhancements. There are some new features though, which I’ll also cover in this post. You can see what the Amazon Seller App used to be like here and here. User Interface…
Amazon Long Term Storage Fees are something I try to avoid whenever possible. That said, the past few times, they have come with a rather interesting caveat that has made me rethink as to whether I should really remove or not. Amazon Long Term Storage Fees – assessed 15 FebruaryAmazon sent a fairly long e-mail…
In what may be the first time ever, Amazon Restricts New Sellers from FBA Q4 2016. This is a huge deal, both for new sellers that have wanted to jump into Amazon but hadn’t yet gotten around to sending in inventory.All accounts indicate that Amazon has done this without any advance notice. Specifically if you…
That time is upon us! Welcome to Q4! I know. If you’ve been following this blog, you already know what Q4 means. It is the time where we ramp up, send in as much of the stuff we’ve been finding over the past 9 months, and hope we sell before Amazon’s crazy storage fees kick…
Amazon has clearly been working hard to free up space in its Fulfillment Centers. First, preventing folks from sending in units when “sufficient supply existed in warehouses,” then increasing storage fees in July. Well, out today, Amazon has announced that they will no longer exempt one unit of each product, from the long term storage…
Last week, I wrote that it was a dark time for Amazon Sellers. I still believe it is, but there may be a silver lining. Much like some airline programs–I’m looking at you Delta–Amazon doesn’t always communicate the most efficiently with its sellers. I totally get that. I run into communication issues in my day job…
With the latest news out of Amazon and Frequent Flyer Program both changes and programs in general, I can’t help but see the similarities, and I don’t mean that in a positive way. Background This past week, reports started of Amazon requiring sellers to provide receipts and in some cases, pay as much as $1,500…