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Amazon Gets Aggressive With Price Parity
This is a follow up article from the original posted a few days ago regarding Have You Received a Price Parity Policy Warning from Amazon? and its not pleasant. If you’ve not read the earlier article yet or the comments, then this won’t make much sense to you just yet and obviously key parts of the email have been removed. This is the first sign that Amazon really means business with its sellers when it … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon Policy Warning For Buyer-Seller Contact Response Times
This is the one I know you’ve been waiting for… Looks like Amazon are about to start enforcing the Buyer-Seller Response times to buyers as a measured metric on your Amazon dashboards. If you missed the Amazon Price Parity article a few days, you can find it here, as Amazon appear to be focusing on 3rd party sellers this quarter. Amazon Policy Warning Email Below is the email being sent out from Amazon, you might … [Full Article >> ]
What is Order Aggregation & How Can it Help Your Business?
Aggregating orders from multiples sales channels is one of the main features in 3rd party software, but what are the benefits of doing this and how can it help your business? I delve deeply into order aggregation in this article and explain how this can help your business tackle multiple sales channels and still leave you with (some) hair. I’ve also included a video accompany this article and I would value any feedback you have … [Full Article >> ]
What if the prices for everything were the same?
This whole price parity issue with Amazon over the past few days as got me thinking. What if the prices for everything were the same? Now that’s an interesting question… Lets imagine for a few minutes what would happen if we were say all governed by a communist government worldwide and one of the parts of the establishment was that for all products, the prices had to be the same. I mean everything, from … [Full Article >> ]
How eSellerPro’s Channel Profile Can Help Your Business
One of eSellerPro’s core features is a function called a ‘Channel Profile’, in this article I’ll be covering the basics to what a ‘Channel Profile’ does and how it can help your business. Multi-Channel selling is now an assumed practice for eCommerce businesses, unlocking the power to reach a much wider audience than you could ever have imagined, but sensibly. The Channel Profile feature in eSellerPro can enable you to achieve … [Full Article >> ]
What is eSellerPro & How it Can Help Your Business?
So what is eSellerPro and how can it help your business? To answer these questions effectively, I’ve put together a 3 minute video overview where I discuss the following: The 3 core parts of eSellerPro, these being: Inventory data & stock management Order aggregation The “Channel Profile” to keep the sales channels up to date Suitable business types Answered in a 3 Minute Video Before you watch this video its important to note … [Full Article >> ]
What is an Amazon Product Detail Page?
Hola! In this article I introduce you to the Amazon product detail pages and the different variations of the detail page for products on Amazon.co.uk If you’ve never sold on Amazon, are looking to do so or are already a seller central merchant, then taking a few minutes to watch the video in this article will help you and your staff understand what an Amazon detail page looks like and … [Full Article >> ]
Have You Received a Price Parity Policy Warning from Amazon?
Have you received a “Your Amazon Seller Account: Policy Warning” that details two products that have the pricing issues when compared from your Amazon selling account to your website? If so read on and if you haven’t yet, it appears Amazon is doing the rounds. Update: You’ll also want to check this article out as Amazon are now notifying businesses that are falling behind on their response times Amazon Policy Warning For Buyer-Seller … [Full Article >> ]
Barcodes, GTIN’s,UPC’s, EAN’s, ISBN’s, JAN’s & ASIN’s Explained
Barcodes, these can cause confusion, especially if we account for all the different names they can be referenced as and even the term barcode isn’t technically correct, GTIN is. As such this article aims to dis-spell the myths & confusion around them and give you the 101 on the different variations, what they are and how they’re used. For the purpose of this article, I’m going to broadly call all GTIN … [Full Article >> ]
I Dared Amazon to Deliver And They Did!
I’m going to share with you a short story with you about my Christmas shopping experience with Amazon and the thing is, only Amazon would have delivered that special Christmas day experience and only in Amazon I would have put my faith in to do so. Setting the Scene Christmas eve fell on a Saturday this year. Judging by the amount of people getting drunk & updating Facebook, it was an all round … [Full Article >> ]
Solid Advice from 250,000 Feedback eBay Seller Bamford Trading
It’s fantastic to see John & Gill from Bamford Trading being featured on eBay’s SellerSphere this month. Both John & Gill have covered several key elements that should be considered when running a successful eBay business. The original article is eBay focused however we should take note of the breadth of Bamford trading sales channels, as eBay is only one part of the multi-channel approach: eBay As focused in the article, … [Full Article >> ]
3% of Sales Coming from the EU? Say Hello to the EU VAT Bomb
If your business has been happily taking orders from around the EU and even if this is as low as 3% to one EU country hot-spot for a £1M turn over business, then you could be sat on an awkward issue regarding VAT. This was another one of those ‘ah-ha moments’, although quickly followed with ‘wtf’ and ‘omg’ that’s going to be fun. In this article I do my best … [Full Article >> ]
Urgent: Dealing Amazon Pending Orders
Firstly apologies, I’ve know about Amazon’s pending orders for a long time now and they can be dangerous. I should have considered their impact at this time of the year earlier. I never suggest anything as ‘urgent’ that I cover here, but this is the exception… What Are Amazon Pending Orders? Amazon pending orders are orders that have one or more issues with either the customer or the payment for … [Full Article >> ]






