Selling Lego on Amazon.com

[vasp]

18 minutes ago, landphieran said:

What ever Amazon did, FBM was killed this year. There have been years previous where it was a much closer threshold to win the buy box with FBM. People are undercutting by 20% and still not winning. Difficult place for FBM sellers. Maybe I'm missing something..

To add to this mess amazon has started removing buy box for lots of legos which had buy box consistently till 2 weeks ago. Was selling with buy box at 229. Out of the blue discounted $13 by amazon for 2 days. Now no buy box even at 199.  Looks like a repeat of last year about to happen, where their AI would tag everything as high price and force to list as collectible-like new.

[gmpirate]

1 hour ago, landphieran said:

What ever Amazon did, FBM was killed this year. There have been years previous where it was a much closer threshold to win the buy box with FBM. People are undercutting by 20% and still not winning. Difficult place for FBM sellers. Maybe I'm missing something..

Yeah, noticed that big time this year.

[gmpirate]

47 minutes ago, vasp said:

To add to this mess amazon has started removing buy box for lots of legos which had buy box consistently till 2 weeks ago. Was selling with buy box at 229. Out of the blue discounted $13 by amazon for 2 days. Now no buy box even at 199.  Looks like a repeat of last year about to happen, where their AI would tag everything as high price and force to list as collectible-like new.

To me at least, this has been gong on all year.

And on another channel, I have 100+ of a Christmas set that Amazon has put in "reserved" for about a week now.  Really made a point this year of getting all Christmas stuff in early to avoid this and just wow . . .

[landphieran]

12 minutes ago, gmpirate said:

To me at least, this has been gong on all year.

And on another channel, I have 100+ of a Christmas set that Amazon has put in "reserved" for about a week now.  Really made a point this year of getting all Christmas stuff in early to avoid this and just wow . . .

Maybe I'm wrong but my conspiracy is they are quietly shifting "excess" inventory to AWD and charging standard storage fee's for it.

[Islego]

2 hours ago, landphieran said:

What ever Amazon did, FBM was killed this year. There have been years previous where it was a much closer threshold to win the buy box with FBM. People are undercutting by 20% and still not winning. Difficult place for FBM sellers. Maybe I'm missing something..

Unless your revend that is. Have some significant counterexamples for that outfit. Amazon researching missing inventory for 60 days while storage and even long term storage fees add up seems downright criminal. 

[gmpirate]

26 minutes ago, Islego said:

Unless your revend that is. Have some significant counterexamples for that outfit. Amazon researching missing inventory for 60 days while storage and even long term storage fees add up seems downright criminal. 

Funny, I've actually shared buy boxes with the West End Boys pretty frequently.  Not so much with others.

[Darth_Raichu]

Amazon's price control bot has been in place for a while.  We either have to submit to it to play or get our listings deactivated.  Whoever created the algorithm did not care about higher fees that could be potentially collected by Amazon.

Plus Amazon could remove any ASIN (even the ones they created) at any time with no apparent reason.  These were active ASINs when removed.  Look upthread for a long list.

Oh and there is no way to dispute or protest any of these.

All on top of increasing cut throat competitions and higher fees.

The joy of selling on Amazon 2024 😄 😀

 

[Islego]

12 minutes ago, gmpirate said:

Funny, I've actually shared buy boxes with the West End Boys pretty frequently.  Not so much with others.

To clarify I have seen them get the buy box as a FBM seller with a price only 2-5% lower than my FBA price. Regardless of my FBA much shorter delivery time. 

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