Amazon’s Marketplace managers must have gotten an earful from outraged booksellers upset about its plans to charge dealers $40 a month to sell collectible books. Without much explanation, they’ve dropped the requirement.
I’ve never seen Amazon back off a proposed policy change as quickly as this one.
Both sides have some merit. Pro-Merchants, on average, are more likely to be responsible sellers who describe their books accurately and bend over backwards to please customers — after all, they have more to lose. There are exceptions, of course.
On the other hand, it’s unfair to ban a seller from selling collectibles simply because their business isn’t big enough to justify the extra $40 in monthly fees.
Here’s the article from last week explaining the new policies on collectibles. There’s a great debate in the comments section at the bottom, in case you missed it.
I am still waiting to hear back from Amazon regarding my application to sell collectibles. Evidently my track record of 19,700 feedbacks with 99 percent positive is not good enough to get in the door automatically. Maybe I’ll check my spam folder one more time …
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They should be charged
After 9 years of Selling on AZ I was refused entry to this category [my review coincided with a recent Feedback on a credit not the book Quality etc - Since removed]
The REAL ISSUE is a question:
Is AZ operating a MALL or are they an AGENT.
As an agent they must lest us operate in a different manner than is they were behaving as a Mall.
They are doing both and the government [all states and the Fed]only allow one way of operation in oder for Markets tro Operate freely and not have any conflict of interest, collusion or price fixing etc.
Looks like they are at it again. I got a notice that they will be dropping my ability to list a signed by author (with receipt for sale in his hand as proof!) book.
They say they are doing this to "protect customers" since they can't "verify the condition of the collectible books".
I've sold business textbooks on here that cost 5 times what I am listing this book for.
The AMAZON BOOK POLICE to the rescue!
Or, perhaps since my collectible book is still in print, its competition for them?
Bastards!