UK booksellers are incensed that Amazon is requiring them to give Marketplace customers the best deal — in other words, they can’t charge a penny more on Amazon than they do on other channels:
“I was appalled when I discovered what Amazon intended to do,” he said. “In effect, Amazon is attempting to stop me and other sellers deciding what price we sell at on different sites.
“This despite the fact that it costs us less to list on some other sites. For some time I have been offering books on my own website at 10 per cent less than I sell on Amazon and on other sites, partly because there is no commission to pay on my own site and partly to drive traffic to my site.
via Bookshops hit back at Amazon ‘bullying’ – Scotsman.com News.
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at online market i think people are really making some from books .even though if you see on ebay the top store witch have most item is a book store.
The real issue for me is that different venues require different amounts of commision and expense. My prices are the same everywhere however I might differentiate prices across sites if I put any thought into expense associated with various sites. – Paul Hanrahan
If a book is sold on the UK Amazon Marketplace we are not allowed to list it on Amazon at all and at times this goes for US releases – I am not sure if AZ has changed this. What hey are doing in the article is he inverse of this policy. AZ is indeed a “bargain basement” and will attract ‘riffraff’ and more scammers due to this.
Also if you read AZ Rules – you are not to sell a book for less than it is listed on AZ elsewhere [unless this has changed] – there are numerous assumptions AZ has made and makes and they do get away with this.
Due, to the fact 99% of AZ Sellers are “Hobby Sellers” and have no Entrepreneurial Knowledge. They know their day job and former career and the AZ Product Grading System only.
The AZ Grading which, for Books & Media is way below the Industry standard.
Books and Media should have 2 grades. One for Jacket and One for the Book.
I am still fuming over having to have DC (when I find if I pay online, and have the PO pick up, I lose a whole day before it goes out…whereas, if I pay at the PO, driving there myself, I get it out 12-24 hours faster, and my feedback will reflect this), so this particular seller-bashing is truly annoying.
HAS Amazon FORGOTTEN they have limited product in the secondary market without us? They need us as much as we need them, but they forget to PROTECT us from unjustified feedback, from regular ‘drops’ of our inventory on their monster-computer site (I had 3,000 books in my amazon inventory when I first went on the seller site, and less than six months later, my number was under 2,000, but of course, I don’t know WHICH ones are missing, so I can’t just relist them until “I” do an individualized search for each and every book). AND, fume-fume, fume, three postal increases without a fee increase on Amazon makes it more difficult for us to
“BE” competitive with what one poster called ‘Hobby Sellers’ who are fortunate to have a ‘living wage’ elsewhere, and do this for disposable capital.
For those of us who make our living (or not much of one) from selling books, this is yet another slap in the face from Amazon!
Don’t get me started on how bad it is to sell in a brick and mortar in NYS!
Okay, I’m done.
Debbie