Unfortunately, there are far too many Amazon sellers who blatantly abuse their privilege to sell on Amazon. Perhaps it’s because these sellers don’t realize the power that Amazon has, or perhaps they do not believe a suspension will ever really happen to their account. News flash: Amazon is incredibly powerful.
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How To Reinstate Amazon Account When it comes to Amazon account suspensions, there is no “one-size fits all” solution. With a whole lot of vague guidelines and policies (Amazon.com Help: Policies and Agreements), Amazon is weeding out sellers left and right with suspensions. Amazon will send you an email notification explaining
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Amazon Holding Seller Funds & Inventory A suspended account brings an Amazon seller’s entire business down. “Your Amazon selling privileges have been removed. To sell on Amazon.com, please provide a detailed plan of action on how you will address these issues.” Being barred from selling on Amazon is detrimental enough
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You open your email and BAM! You see a notice, it’s an Amazon suspension notice. What do you do now that your Amazon seller account privileges have been suspended? Creating a Plan of Action Well, after a few deep breaths, it’s time to start crafting a Plan of Action. You
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Intellectual property law provides protections to brands and private label Amazon sellers. Intellectual property rights protect trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade dress. Intellectual property right complaints are often used against Amazon Sellers. When a person / company makes a complaint on Amazon based on intellectual property rights, they are often referred
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Received Intellectual Property Complaints Why You Must Respond to an IP Complaint – Do Not Ignore an Intellectual Property Complaint! An Amazon IP Complaint is when a brand sends a complaint to stop that seller from using the intellectual property of the complaining brand. You can report infringement to Amazon if
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Amazon has a strict policy against managing multiple accounts. However, their entire platform is composed of a diversified group of sellers. Amazon themselves are so successful because any customer can log onto the website, and most likely find what they need. Why is it then, that they want to restrict
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Fake Reviews on Amazon can cost you your Amazon Sellers Account! Amazon is cracking down on sellers who create fake reviews for their products or collude with other sellers to post fraudulent reviews in exchange for compensation. In fact, Amazon isn’t just suspending these sellers — they’re suing them. Amazon
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Amazon’s Product Safety Policy: “The Product Safety Team at Amazon works to protect Amazon customers from risks of injury associated with products offered on Amazon by looking into and taking action on reported safety complaints and incidents.” Amazon’s product safety team ensures the safety of its products by “looking into”
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Know the common mistakes FBA sellers make when appealing an Amazon suspension. It’s every Amazon FBA sellers’ worst nightmare: the account suspension email. During the holiday season, even a temporary FBA listing suspension on a profitable product can put a sizable dent in an FBA Seller’s profits. Sometimes, the issue
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Amazon Review Manipulation SHORT & SWEET: Don’t do it. It is an account killer. Short Term Gains vs. Long Term Business: a lot of new sellers out there partake in various third party applications, programs, and incentives for a coveted 5 star review. While this can help you rise up
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We represent sellers against Amazon if they refuse to reinstate your account or refuse to give you back your money / inventory. The way we do that is by filing an arbitration against Amazon with the American Arbitration Association. That is probably one of the best parts of your contract
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AMAZON SELLERS LAWYER SUCCESS A seller was sourcing products with other sellers, and selling on different Amazon accounts, which is against Amazon’s policies. The seller claimed to not know that this was against Amazon’s guidelines. Corrective actions included getting to know Amazon’s guidelines and policies, and not associating with the
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Forged & Inauthentic Invoices – Amazon Seller Suspension Forged and inauthentic invoices were the topic of Amazon Sellers Lawyer’s most recent news video on Facebook Live. Become educated on the topic of invoices and how to keep yourself out of trouble with them and it will keep you in business
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Communication is key for every relationship, right? Technically, this is the average rule of thumb. But when it comes to Amazon seller support, the lines of communication are crowded at best. Sometimes when you contact Amazon seller support with a pressing issue, it seems as if you are being pushed
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Sellers are often suspended from Amazon without knowing why. Amazon Account Suspension For No Reason Amazon sellers who do not know why their accounts have been suspended are not alone. How to Find Out the Reason for Suspended Amazon Sellers Accounts If you don’t know why your Amazon sellers
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CJ & Dana discuss another reinstatement success: Drop Shipper’s Amazon Account Saved AMAZON SELLERS LAWYER SUCCESS We had a client who was a drop shipper, putting ASINs up online, getting products from the store, and having it mailed directly to customers. The client was not buying any inventory until he
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CJ Rosenbaum and Jason Powell, one of our top paralegals, discuss a case where an Amazon seller was doing retail / online arbitrage. Online Arbitrage Seller Reinstatement – Amazon Sellers Lawyer Success The seller was buying electronics from different locations across the country from typical retail stores such as Khol’s
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A reinstatement success story: in this case, our client was dropshipping, which is against Amazon’s policies. AMAZON SELLERS LAWYER SUCCESS We do not advise sellers to engage in dropshipping, even though we have had success in obtaining reinstatement for dropshippers. If you are on a listing, you should have inventory
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CJ Rosenbaum and Sal, one of our awesome paralegals, talks to you about a third party courier that caused a late shipment suspension. AMAZON SELLERS LAWYER SUCCESS The case Sal just worked on was that of an experienced Amazon seller who was merchant fulfilled and suspended for his prime privilege
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Repricing is not a new concept to Amazon sellers. Whether you’re adjusting your prices manually or automatically, repricing is a very important way of ensuring that your products are priced properly, depending on the competition. Due to the fact that your competitors are constantly growing on Amazon, especially during the
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