BenP

Amazon PL Seller & Consultant

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@michaelpatron0 I’m doing ~60 containers / year with AGL. I would say 80% are the same as quoted. I agree recently they have been more with spot rates increasing after they are quoted. But in general I find AGL to be very honest. Drayage costs are a bit higher than I would expect though.

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@MillPrue Crazy. Seems like an easy solution for Amazon to waive the fee for any parent listing doing over $100k/month. Maybe even lower.

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Woah. Amazon titles going down to 75 characters in July.

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@michaelpatron0 Never. Always use price discounts

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@michaelpatron0 @guyfosel @amznsellerhelp @ajassy This is crazy…

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@michaelpatron0 @amznsellerhelp I get hundreds Amazon echos. Insane.

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@michaelpatron0 Had the exact same thing happen yesterday. Unreal how broken the systems are. “Complex” support team told me 2% higher price than 90 day average was the trigger. BS. He submitted an appeal and fixed it in 12 hours

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@CameronWalkerSZ @MillPrue Problem with the good SAS reps is they get promoted quickly and get replaced

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Really hoping this is a mistake/glitch on amazons part. I have 11 parent asins scheduled for lightning deals for “Black Friday / Cyber Monday Event” which runs technically 11/20 - 12/1. Every. Single. Deal. Is showing scheduled BEFORE thanksgiving. Crazy…

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@michaelpatron0 @amznsellerhelp Amazon should tell sellers EVERY reference price. These too many of these to keep track of and is essentially a guessing game how they calculate them

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Check your emails…2025 FBA fees increases announced. Quick overview:
.5% increases to FBA fees based on selling price tiers. Big one for variant heavy sellers- low inventory fees now at the FNSKU level, NOT parent level. Fees going up big for that

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@AmazonASGTG @DelRey Yes. Had 10 asins lose the BB overnight that I haven’t touched the price in weeks

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Looks like Amazon turned back on their strict pricing rules now that the tariff deal with China was announced… lovely @DelRey

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

Amazon is not able to calculate the tariffs on most of the products it sells.

To calculate the tariffs, Amazon would need to know:

1. The declared cost of the goods when they were imported. You multiply the declared cost by the import tariff and duty to calculate the dollar amount of the tariff eg $10 item 50% import duty tariff = $5 tariff cost

2. When the goods were imported. The tariffs are changing constantly. For the toys we sell, they were 0%, then 10%, then 20%, and now 145%. Depending when the goods were imported the tariff would be different.

Amazon does not have this information for 99.9% of the products sold on their website because Amazon does not import the products, wholesale brands and sellers on the Amazon marketplace do.

Any dollar amount you see on Amazon’s website will be an estimate and will come with legal language that says that you shouldn’t rely on it.

In other words, this isn’t about informing customers of actual tariff costs, but actually an attempt to sway Amazon’s customers’ opinions because tariffs harm Amazon’s business.

I said 99.9%. What’s the 0.1%?

Amazon does import some products from overseas itself eg Amazon Basics (their own private label brand) and for those products it does know the tariff because it would have the cost it declared and when it was imported.

That said, Amazon probably has not ordered since the major tariffs went into effect so these numbers will not be impressive nor will they appear on many products.

The tariffs are complicated and no one knows what will ultimately happen to the global economy once their effects are felt (hasn’t happened yet).

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@TheVillage_AMZ Mine cut by 63%. Crazy

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Amazon Pricing Alert: looks like overnight Amazon altered policy on price increases. I’m able to increase prices more than 5% over 60 day average WITHOUT buybox suppression. Other sellers please confirm. But thanks @DelRey for shedding light!

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@DelRey This also happened before any of these tariffs. It’s not new

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@DelRey Every. Day. Yes

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With no brand/seller reporting fantastic sales, I’d take this that sales are very slow and FCs are maxing out storage with worsening inventory turnover.

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With the FBA limits popping up again, thought this was interesting. Got an AWD to FBA auto replenishment error below. “COVID-19 Limit Exceeded”. Amazon clearly forgot to rename the error. They flipped their emergency FBA stock limit switch to the ON position…