Amazon celebrated its 20th birthday with an ambitious mid-July discount bonanza to rival Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While it sold nearly 400 items per second over the course of this 24-hour event held on July 15, and more Amazon Prime members signed up that day than...

Editor's note: This is a guest post by Alex Valchev from 888Lots.  888 Lots is an innovative online liquidation platform that gives online sellers new opportunities to expand their business. At 888 Lots, we are trying to build the most advanced and intuitive liquidation platform crafted especially for online...

    The dreaded Seller Central beta testing phase has had a rocky start, but now that the dust has settled, let’s take a gander at how the home page layout has turned out. To see for yourself, keep calm and carry on reading.     The Fancy Face-Lift...

  Amazon Mexico Takes Off - ¡Órale! Amazon recently set up shop in Mexico; number 16 in its suite of nations rushing to quench the shopping needs of its 182 million monthly visitors. As it expands into this emerging market with a catalog of 13 categories, established Amazon US...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Lewis Bezzina from removemybackground.com Remove My Background is useful for any Amazon seller who wants to create product details pages. Every product on Amazon needs one or more product images with pure white background. Read more to see how Remove My...

  Amazon recently revised its star rating system based on the age, helpfulness and legitimacy of the transaction. It also introduced review ranking formulas to weed out unworthy reviews, or at least send them closer to the end of the line. The change has not gone unnoticed, but it’s...

  So, you’ve decided to start selling internationally. Wonderful! You’ve gone through the VAT registration process for a European country; now it’s time to start thinking about filing the VAT return. Don’t worry! We are here to help make that experience as painless as possible!     Even if...

  The Plot Thickens: Valid Tracking Rates are Here As major carriers started providing tracking numbers free of charge in the U.S., Amazon announced the Valid Tracking Rate; a new metric available in Seller Central that started on July 7th. Amazon is encouraging all sellers to take advantage of...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Kit Wu from JoeLister. JoeLister is most useful for our FBA clients interested in expanding to other platforms. This might be the simple solution you were actually in search of to increase your sales. What is JoeLister? SEPlus users – and...

What’s the buzz about condition guidelines? Amazon forums are all abuzz with the chatter of sellers who’ve had their accounts suspended. It seems failure to comply with condition guidelines has reached epidemic proportions. As more and more sellers have a bee in their bonnet about it, we thought it’s...