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...

    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...

  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...

  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...

A while ago, we wrote about the top ten most common mistakes sellers make on Amazon. Sometimes Amazon rules can be a bit arbitrary and confusing, and accounts get suspended for reasons that are not always as clear-cut as they should be. Today we’re going to try to give...

  Love thy neighbor as thy deliveryman. Confused? It seems like only yesterday that Amazon made waves with its research into drone delivery. Now it’s delving into an entirely new territory: the boy next door - literally. A fancy new On My Way app will enable the average Joe...

To remove, or to dispose; that is the question.   FBA sellers dread nothing more than a customer return. Whichever way you look at it, they stand only to lose. At least, that’s the way things used to be before Amazon introduced the FBA Repackaging Service; a change that...

Ever wonder what would happen if you turned your child’s weekly allowance into Amazon Gift Cards? For those of us who don’t like unexpected surprises popping up on a bank statement, this could very well be the best thing since sliced bread. Piggybanks everywhere are bound to agree. But...

When it comes to selling on any Amazon venue, having repricing software that you can trust is key. This is doubly true when it comes to selling globally. You’ll need software that works with every Amazon venue that you’re selling on. You’ll need to be able to reprice all of your...