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#74 - A New Amazon Policy Will Hit Sellers Hard, and much more...

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Happy Monday, readers! It's time for the new #74 issue of FBA Monthly. In this issue, we have a great deal of exciting news and tips we want to loop you in on. Only essential, curated news from Amazon space. Follow @FBAmonthly on Twitter to let us know what do you think about the issue. Enjoy your reading!

Hot News

Sellers say a new policy from Amazon will hit them hard. Amazon is requiring sellers to pay for return shipping when a buyer sends back items in Fashion categories.

ecommercebytes.com

Despite disruptions to global supply chains and Amazon’s warehouse space restrictions, inventory levels at Amazon warehouses are high. As other retailers are fearing empty shelves, Amazon has turned its vast marketplace into an advantage.

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In typical Amazon style, the data points don’t always match up like-for-like each year. For example, Amazon has defined its total universe of SMB’s differently in the past 3 years.

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Good to Know

The PandaLabs team, the Panda Security Laboratory, has detected various phishing techniques in which scammers impersonate the popular marketplace to get either your account or your bank details directly.

marketresearchtelecast.com

The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon.

thenextweb.com

Amazon is threatening to shut down its third-party seller marketplace if certain proposed legislation is passed, according to the trade group Online Merchants Guild (OMG).

ecommercebytes.com

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Those are the main findings of a recent report by CANOPY Management, the full-service Amazon agency that helps brands scale their business and gain market share. To create the report, CANOPY surveyed more than 300 Amazon sellers.

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Walmart is growing much faster online than Amazon in e-commerce, more than five times faster. If those rates hold steady, Walmart’s e-commerce will overtake Amazon’s retail sales in four years.

forbes.com

Do you have products to sell? Don’t overlook Amazon Custom. Sellers who are already using it laud its features and call it a great experience that brings them more business.

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Amazon will now allow certain sellers reach out to buyers who’ve left less-than-stellar reviews, but according to many of the sellers discussing the new feature, it’s far too restrictive.

ecommercebytes.com

The lawmakers plan to introduce a bill early next week that would prohibit platforms from requiring companies operating on their sites to purchase the platform’s goods or services.

ttnews.com

Online sellers should consider the implications of U.S. antitrust legislation that could force the company to divest its third-party marketplace — warning that there could be “very serious unintended consequences” for their own businesses.

geekwire.com

A bipartisan group of legislators imply Amazon is up to no good with seller data. But sellers are neither shocked nor scared by the news.

digitalcommerce360.com

As many brands know all too well, the best laid strategy to manage the channels through which their goods are sold can be quickly disrupted by unauthorized sellers.

thefashionlaw.com

In a 2016 document, titled “India Private Brands Program,” Amazon’s private label team in India detailed how it would review sales and customer review data to identify “reference brands” to replicate, according to the article.

cnbc.com


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Tips and Tricks

The median loss per person was $1,000. Reports about Amazon impersonators surged more than five-fold during the period. About 96,000 people filed reports about being targeted, and nearly 6,000 said they lost money.

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Here, Optimizon’s Amazon PPC specialist, Jon Ellis, reveals everything you need to know about Amazon PPC, and how much to spend.

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Believe it or not, flipping furniture doesn’t require much money upfront to get started. In fact, you can find a lot of used furniture for free — if you know where to look.

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Podcasts

E-commerce expert Dave Kettner of Etsy Profits Generator shares how he built a successful coffee mug business on Etsy and scaled his sales through Amazon FBA in this episode of the Sell Rank Win podcast.

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