News from Auctionbytes about a change in Amazon’s third-party selling program. In nutshell, Amazon is ending restrictions for its various types of selling programs — such as media sellers and Merchant@ vendors. Everyone will be herded into a program called “Selling on Amazon” and will have more freedom to sell in different categories.
Here’s the scoop at Auctionbytes:
Instead of classifying merchants into Marketplace sellers who could sell Books, Music, Video and DVD (BMVD), and Merchants@, who could sell in non-media categories, it is putting all sellers into its “Selling on Amazon” program, and differentiating based on sales volume.
An Amazon.com spokesperson confirmed this, and stated in an email, “Previously, when a seller signed up for a media category (BMVD) they were limited by these categories. Sellers no longer have to make a choice between media and non-media to sign up and sell on Amazon.com.”
However, the terms for media and non-media sellers will be different. Get the details here at Auctionbytes.
Another case of Amazon making major changes to its selling programs with no apparent discussion among sellers, or even much notification. I’m guessing it took Auctionbytes editor Ina Steiner about a week to pull enough teeth at Amazon to find out exactly what was going on. Kudos, Ina!
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But CATEGORIES are no longer available to 3P Pro-Merch accounts [monthly account payees] on AZ.
The Seller page listings which are a Digital-Beach-Blanket with no product Search or Sort capability is useless.
All AZ competitors offer this knowing from Seller feedback that this allows buyers to do pne stop shopping from one Seller,
Although this seems "nice" on the surface; this only would benefit AZ in some way one would have to wait and see until implemented.
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Head's up thought you'd make a comment on this.
Today for first time on Amazon I noticed something they call an "amazon verified purchase" for items a customer reviews that they know the same customer bought on Amazon. I believe this is in reaction to the FTC rules now in effect for blogging and other online reviewing when the FTC wants disclosure of where the item came from (promotional copy, review copy etc.)
Some have criticized Amazon for allowing customer reviews when it might have been a review copy from the publisher or other source.
There are directions for going back to flag all past reviews with that but frankly I don't have time to do that!
Hmm.