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Presumably, everyone hates follow-selling. After working hard to promote a link, if it is followed by follow-selling, the sales volume will be cut in half.
Then I don’t know whether to continue the advertisement or the originally planned promotion activities.
What's worse, because of the negative reviews from the seller, the link weight dropped, resulting in heavy losses!!!
On December 28, I found that my link was being copied and sold, and the copying became more rampant, from only following for two or three hours to following for 24 hours!
I couldn't stand it any longer. If I went to a service provider, I was afraid of brand warnings or even account freezing. If I didn't go to a service provider, I didn't know what to do. Then I found this post on Zhiwubuyan.
Although the poster has become anonymous, I am still very grateful to him:
In the past two years, due to various trademark explosions, follow-selling has become rampant! I believe that many buyers have been deeply harmed by it, and I am also one of them . Seeing that the links that I have spent a lot of money to cultivate are used as stepping stones by others, that feeling, no one can empathize with me.
I saw from other places that according to a seller’s sharing, someone used 12315 to report follow-selling, and it was successful! The specific idea is to fill in the company information of the reported party on the 12315 platform, report unfair competition as the problem type, and attach reporting materials, etc.! !
The specific operations are as follows:
1. Find the company information of the follow-up seller on Amazon’s front desk, search the full name of the company on Baidu, and find the unified social credit code.
2. File a complaint against this company on the national 12315 platform. Reasons for the complaint:
First, report that the seller’s registered address is fake. Because as a follow-seller, his address is usually not real. If you use a real address, you are afraid that others will come to your door and follow you physically.
Second, report this seller for making and selling counterfeit goods and selling them on Amazon.
3. After 12315 processing, the company's operating status shows abnormality. Go to Amazon to complain that the seller's company situation is abnormal and wait for Amazon to investigate him.
This method has certain limitations. Currently, it can only be used to successfully file a complaint against sellers who are registered with Chinese companies. This method is not effective for accounts registered in the United States!
This method can be tried by sellers who are afraid of problems with the brand of follow-selling! No risk and no cost, whether it will succeed or not, it is worth a try. After all, some sellers have successfully operated and made the follow-selling pay the price! Purify the cross-border environment! Crack down on the superficial follow-selling dogs!
The store that follows the sale is basically the store that buys the goods. Their store is a consumable product, so the address is definitely a fake address and a registered address! ! Even if they have many stores, they must pay the price, zero tolerance. ( It cannot be guaranteed to be 100% effective)
Referring to the ideas in the post, I downloaded the 12315 APP
Regardless of whether we can successfully drive away the copycat sellers, we will definitely make them pay the price!!!
Because many companies that follow the sales have virtual addresses. Once the market supervision bureau investigates, they will find out the exact address. At the very least, they can make the address of the company that follows the sales become a fake address! Then the company will be included in the list of abnormal operations!!!
The latest result is that during the appeal period, it happened to be the New Year's Day holiday, so the complaint I submitted on the 30th was not processed from 30th to 1st. When I opened the APP on the morning of the 2nd, it showed that the local market supervision bureau had processed it. Thumbs up for their efficiency!!! And then indeed, the follow-sale was no longer 24 hours on that day. I observed it for a whole day and it didn't appear!!!
It is the morning of the 3rd. I looked at the KEEPA curve and found that from 3 am to around 8 am, there are still people secretly following the sales!!! Not sure if it is the same one.
But judging by the result, I still accept it.
I will continue to pay attention to it and keep updating, and will give you feedback if there is any latest development!!!
2024.01.04
The good news is that the follow-selling that took place in the beginning is now definitely not happening anymore.
The bad news is that there are new followers, from the sneaky ones in the early morning to the blatant ones in the daytime. I immediately reported them to 12315 for handling.
PS: The best way to prevent copycat sales is to register for Amazon's Transparency Program. It should be noted that you cannot register for the Transparency Program with a TM logo!! You must use an @ logo. If conditions permit, it is better to buy a US current logo. The loss of being copied by others is immeasurable.
2024.01.05
On the afternoon of the day when the complaint was submitted to 12315 for processing, 12315 had already sent it to the local Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, which has not yet accepted it.
I found some tips on how to catch and follow others on Zhiwubuyan:
Method 1: Transparent Program
Method 2: 0 plan (provided by service provider)
Method 3: Internal removal (provided by service provider)
Method 4: BG2.0 label authorization (provided by service provider)
Method 5: Buy the product from the follower and go to the front desk to complain about the counterfeit sales
I found that the poster is also anonymous. He really does good things without leaving his name. I admire him~~~
The following links are provided for those interested:
https://www.wearesellers.com/question/81625
2024.01.05 Afternoon
The good news is that the address of the company that copied the product has been listed as operating abnormally!!!
The local market supervision bureau called me several times, but because my phone was on silent, I didn’t have time to see it in time.
I will continue to pay attention to the situation of the copycat stores and provide feedback when there is news.
2024.01.06 Update
After the Market Supervision Bureau listed the follow-selling address as abnormal operation, I checked the National Enterprise Information Network and found that it has not been updated yet. I will continue to pay attention to it later.
Regarding the following reply, a friend said that we should find a way to feedback the abnormal operation information of the follow-selling store company to Amazon, otherwise it will be useless. To be honest, I have checked a lot of information and haven't found any relevant tutorials. If there are big guys who know how to do it, please feel free to teach me. Benefit the people, and good people will have a peaceful life.
On the other hand, the good news is that the registration of the brand I bought in Azov was quickly approved. This is Plan B that I prepared myself to register for the Transparency Program.
There is no other way to do business on Amazon. When you encounter difficulties, you should think of more ways to solve them. As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
2024.01.07 Update
The National Enterprise Information Network has already shown abnormal operations.
I plan to take screenshots and try to complain to Amazon later.
This is the update for now. I don’t know if I can find a channel to complain.
"Wonderful Reply"
Anonymous user
Agree with: I'm really sorry, Mo Lagu As for follow-selling, although Amazon policy allows it, for merchants like us who have invested time and experience on Amazon, follow-selling is something we hate very much!
Follow-selling has led to fierce competition among merchants on the Amazon platform, allowing Amazon to list products with slim profits. This is good for the platform because the more favorable the price, the more orders the platform can generate, and the more sales commissions the platform can naturally earn. However, for merchants, follow-selling is malicious bidding.
Especially in our country, the copycats have no bottom line, and even set prices so low that they lose money. After placing an order, they tell the customer that the product is out of stock, and then cancel the order. Disrupting the market, the copycats who make money without working are having a lot of fun playing with the mentality of speculation and making money that is similar to stealing.
The sellers who follow others are speculative and cunning, using tricks and schemes to study how to follow others and how to counter-follow others! It is a bit too much to say that they are getting something for nothing, because a thief has to steal things by hand, so he is not idle, which is ridiculous!
As Chinese people, we must be hard-working and improve our abilities with determination. To work for Amazon, we should concentrate on learning, researching product selection, researching operations, and make a living by relying on our strength and ability!
If the people who copied me see what I wrote, they will scold me. I will go into hiding now.
Anonymous user I have followed the complaint of the poster and I have seen the online reply from the Supervision Bureau, saying that the registered phone number 18xx cannot be contacted (I couldn't find the phone number before) and no one is there at the address on the business license. It will be included in the list of abnormal operations.
At present, we are still being copied.
Have someone else try to call and they said it went through?
Is there any way to stop him from following my lead if I know his phone number (I tried WeChat and the phone number left also has WeChat)?
Please ask 123 - it seems like I know a little bit about everything, but also nothing. Agree with: Iamakoala, Now is about to become the past, Knowing nothing, max the crazy guest in the world After you file a complaint about an abnormal business address, you also need to find a way to file a complaint with Amazon to inform them of the abnormal business address. Otherwise, even if the business address is abnormal, Amazon will not be able to promptly link risk control to the account that follows the seller. If the address is abnormal, you will first have to deal with Europe and then the United States.
Brother-in-law's brother-in-law -Brother- in-law's brother-in-law Endorsed by: Mo Lagu I suggest you join the transparency plan and pay some protection fee to Amazon to save trouble. It is not feasible to rely on the market supervision bureau. Those who follow the sales are all small and black accounts. They don't care. They just make a profit and leave.
Foolish The abnormal operation of the business license does not seem to have a big impact on Amazon. Europe may have some problems, but North America seems to be fine. Amazon Xiaozhuang • Shenzhen • 2024-01-03 16:11 If it is simply listed as abnormal operation, the impact may not be significant, but I don’t know whether the Market Supervision Bureau will contact the legal person of the follow-selling company to stop the trademark infringement. Now these follow-selling companies cannot be contacted at all when checking the company information.
Xiaocaicai Qiufeng • Zhengzhou • 2024-01-04 09:45 There will be an impact. Amazon's system is becoming more and more stringent. The company's abnormalities will trigger a much larger audit, and then the consumer law will be difficult to pass.
Foo lish • Guangdong • 2024-01-04 10:36 @Amazon小庄: According to Amazon's rules, copy-selling is allowed. Another thing is that your trademark is foreign and China cannot control it.
Amazon Xiaozhuang • Shenzhen • 2024-01-04 10:49 @Foolish : This is a domestic company. Even trademarks and patents are more protected than you think. If it were an American company, of course, they would not be able to control it. Also, it is not necessarily to drive away copycat sellers, but just to make copycat sellers pay the price!! Because most of the copycat sellers have fake addresses, and they are accurate when checked. This is enough to make them uncomfortable. It is also very troublesome to deal with address anomalies.
Meaningless taco - 90s Otaku Agree with: Now will become the past Hello, is this part of the tutorial for me to write my own order and amount?
Amazon Xiaozhuang • Shenzhen • 2024-01-03 12:00 If there is no order, write "None" and the consumption amount is 0
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