Amazon Sellers’ News 1/9/20: Inauthentic Perfume Complaints, Ex-Spouse’s Related Amazon Account, Drop Shipping Suspensions Inauthentic Perfume Complaints We’ve been seeing an influx of inauthentic complaints in general over the past few weeks, but recently it’s been mostly perfume sales. If you happen to source your products through a retail
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ News 1/8/20 with CJ Rosenbaum: Amazon cracking down on related seller accounts, If selling air filters, you might be receiving a restricted product complaint, New Seller Business Verification: accounts are getting hacked. Amazon cracking down on related seller accounts. Now they’re referencing section 3 of the new BSA.
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ News 1/7/20 with CJ Rosenbaum: Manipulating A-Z Claims for Faster Returns, Our warning for anyone who’s considering making a related Amazon account, Inauthentic Suspensions for European Sellers. We’re seeing sellers getting baseless, inauthentic complaints and seeing buyers manipulating their A to Z chargeback claims to get faster returns and to possibly
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Amazon Sellers’ News 1/6/20 with CJ Rosenbaum: Sellers not selling pesticides suspended for not being compliant with Amazon’s pesticide rules, Sellers getting suspended when they change credit cards, Rights owners’ complaints on third-party sellers. Sellers who are not selling pesticides are being suspended for not being compliant with Amazon’s pesticide
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Amazon Sellers’ News 1/3/20 with CJ Rosenbaum: 1. Amazon sellers continuing to get stuck with business verification issues. 2. Inauthentic suspensions rising since December, and now it’s at a critical point. 3. If selling branded products or your own, know about the 1st sale doctrine. Amazon sellers are continuing to
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Amazon Sellers’ News 1/2/2020 with CJ Rosenbaum: Sellers Suspended for Seeking Feedback Removal, Jumping into a Product that is Restricted, Rights Owners with Trademarks/Brand Registry Make sure you’re not jumping into a product that is restricted. Be careful. Amazon is right on this at the beginning of the year. We
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/31/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Amazon “RETURNUARY,” A to Z Claims, Related Accounts, 3 IP Issues for Sellers January is the #1 month for returns from all those Christmas sales. You have to evaluate these returns and sellers, you should expect returns for nonsense reasons. Also, be prepared
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/30/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: POWER TO AMAZON SELLERS, Related Accounts, Avoid Selling HEMP/CBD Products That Cause Suspensions If you received an intellectual property right complaint, I want sellers to know today and throughout 2020 that sellers have tremendous power and tools at your disposal. Please stay with
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/26/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Temporary Restraining Orders Against Amz Sellers, Seller Code of Conduct Suspensions, Medical Claims, Post-Christmas Returns Court orders against Amazon sellers. The northern district of Illinois in Chicago issues a huge number of temporary restraining orders against Amazon sellers. The vast majority of these
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/24/19: Intellectual Property Issues, Business Verification, Related Amz Seller Accounts, Suing NFL for Baseless Complaints Intellectual property rights complaints. You do not need any brand’s permission or authorization to sell their product. In the United States, the first sale doctrine applies, and as long as the consumer
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ News 12/23/19: Amazon FBM Sellers Manipulating Shipping Weight, Flagged for ‘Maybe’ Inauthentic Suspensions, Threatened with Lawsuits for Trademark Infringement The first story is for the FBM sellers out there that create your own listings. Recently, we’ve been seeing Amazon updating those listings and manipulating the shipping weight. So
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/20/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Amazon Referencing New TOS in Suspension Notices, Related Accounts Getting Caught Faster Than Ever, Review Manipulation, China Magic sourcing group. Amazon is clearly referencing the new TOS in its suspension notices. If you want to learn exactly what the new TOS says and
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/19/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Product detail page tampering, Louis Vuitton intellectual property complaints, Amz issuing refunds, Sellers standing up to brands Louis Vuitton has started making a tremendous number of intellectual property rights complaints against sellers. They are making complaints against sellers who are selling counterfeit products
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/18/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Lost Listings, Suspended Accounts, Hazmat Review & Don’t Get Hacked First breaking news story: lost listings and suspended accounts from Amazon’s pricing alert system. There seems to clearly be another Amazon glitch, because sellers are satisfying the minimum and the maximum, sellers’ pricing
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/17/19: Amazon Sellers Terrified of New Policy Update, Chinese Problems Arriving in the United States, Prime’s free one-day delivery starting on January 1st. Chinese sellers’ problems arriving right here on U.S. shores. There has always been a tremendous misuse of brands claiming intellectual property rights against sellers
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ News 12/16/19: Suspending Amz Listings for Restricted Products, Violating Code of Conduct, and Patent Issues We’ve seen sellers violating codes of conduct. If you receive this, you could possibly be doing any of the following: continuously violating policies Amazon has, you could have a high intellectual property complaint
Read more →Amazon Sellers’ News 12/13/19: Amz Recommending Sellers to Open Second Accounts, Suspending Without Notification & Verification Amazon suspending sellers without any reason. “Your account has been related to a deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.” Amazon’s now heavily relying on the fact that they can suspend you without reason and this
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/11/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: AMZ sellers getting suspended for jumping on pre-existing listings without having inventory, Private label brands with brand registry having a hard time getting rid of hijackers, Former Amazon sellers with old accounts, The glitch report, Amazon sellers going on other platforms. Sellers suspended
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/10/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Unauthorized logins into your AMZ account, Old IP complaints causing new suspensions, Seller code of conduct suspensions. Unauthorized logins into your Amazon account. Amazon is suspending sellers, holding your money, freezing your inventory when Amazon thinks there’s an unauthorized login. We believe this
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/9/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Private Label Brand Development Exploding, Amz Holding Seller Funds & Disney/Marvel v Sellers If Amazon is withholding your money and refuses to release it after your plans of action, your appeals, and your Jeff Bezos escalation fails, you have every right to take Amazon
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Amazon Sellers’ News 12/6/19 with CJ Rosenbaum: Amz sellers receiving IP complaints on different platforms, Hacked Amz accounts & Brand registry reports We are seeing a significant increase in the number of intellectual property right complaints being asserted against Amazon sellers selling on Amazon platforms outside the United States. We’re
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