My Amazon Guy Amazon Selling Challenges and COVID-19 Seller Central News #37
May 7, 2020
22:33
Current Events with Amazon Selling
Overwhelmed feeling? If you’re an essential worker you’re an unrecognized underpaid hero right now. If you are an non-essential worker you’ve been holed up in your house. My favorite comment I heard today was “What day of the week is it, March 53rd?”
- Out of budget advertising campaigns lowest hanging fruit
- Shipping restrictions biggest frustration right now
- Focus on MFN shipping for next 60 days
- Things that are currently off right now at Amazon
- Coupons
- Lightning Deals
- Prime Day being rescheduled
- Inventory removals
- Frequently bought together (saw it kind of come back but mostly still gone)
- NARF- not a pinky and the brain reference. Sell in Canada & Mexico with Amazon's North America Remote Fulfillment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GNJAl2XdA
- Product review emails are on the skirts. About to get banned. Saw the new review button on orders come out.
- Other related COVID-19 news
- Air freight is like 5x more expensive right now.
- USPS international shipping disruptions
- Time to process returns and refunds has been extended to 14 days. Goes back to 2 days June 1.
- Supply Chains still stressed.
- Massive amounts of listings taken down in the past month. So many My Amazon Guy created a new listing reinstatement service and it has been extremely popular and successful. https://myamazonguy.com/amazon-listing-reinstatement/
- Recording setting sales for 5% of our clients last week. This is after 25% of our clients have set records during a week in the past 30 days. Lot of new records keep getting set.