Before Amazon’s peak season, sellers’ nightmare comes again!

The 618 shopping festival in China has already kicked off, and several waves of activities are in full swing. Cross-border people are also looking forward to their mid-year promotion. However, just after Amazon's pre-holiday sweep, all kinds of monsters and demons have appeared recently, "fighting to the death" before the holiday, trying to grab this wave of bonuses.

Follow-up sales are emerging

Hijacking happens every year, but it has become more common recently. A seller reported that his product was hijacked at 50% off yesterday, and the price of his ASIN was directly lowered. Soon, the flash sale was reported as an error, and the price needed to be adjusted. The seller said bluntly that this Member Day was going to be a failure.

Before every big sale, copycat sales become rampant, trying to lower the other party’s big sale prices.

Nowadays, some people are posting advertisements on major social media platforms to recruit apprentices to teach how to follow the seller, using a bunch of gimmicks like "no source of goods", "low cost", "exchange rate difference" and "guaranteed teaching". Many people who want to get something for nothing will get involved.

Nowadays, there are many teams that have no idea about operations, but they have multiple accounts and many people to operate and follow the sales. Once an order is placed, the money goes into their pockets.

Even now, private model products are copied and sold. Their current method is to sell and run away, regardless of whether the product is right or not, as long as the dead link is yours. He can withdraw the money, lose the account and leave. (What a shame)

Now it is easy to receive a warning letter if you try to follow others, Amazon will accuse you of abuse, and you will have to write a POA, or even close your store. The best way to avoid following others is to do the Transparency Plan or BG Label .

In addition to the headaches caused by follow-selling, there have also been a lot of infringement complaints. Last week, many sellers were complained about the infringement of the word "summer" and their listings were removed from the shelves. Many commonly used words were registered, causing sellers to receive complaints before the big promotion, and their products were at risk of being removed from the shelves one by one.

Infringement complaints continue to emerge

The seller's listing included the brand words of a competitor. This time it was not Amazon that detected the infringement, but the competitor's seller complained directly. Even if he deleted the brand words himself, it would not work. The only solution was to contact the other party to cancel it.

Especially when your product is bought back by a competitor and you discover infringement, you can complain directly to Amazon. This will provide solid evidence and you will have no choice but to negotiate a settlement and withdraw the claim. There is no way to appeal to Amazon at all.

Good products that seem to have few sellers are at the greatest risk of patent infringement. Often, your competitors will start taking action just as your products are gaining popularity or before a big sale, and will complain about you from time to time, causing you to be unable to sell your products and having an inventory backlog.

Recently, a seller encountered such a thing. The product’s appearance infringed on patents, and the listings were complained and removed from the shelves every now and then. He was left with more than a thousand stocks that could not be digested.

The magic operation is shown here in the case of image infringement. Some sellers’ product images were stolen, and the other party directly uploaded them to their own independent website to complain about the seller’s image infringement, resulting in the deletion of the listing image. Now the other party says that they need to repurchase the domain name before they can withdraw the complaint.

This wave of operations is very similar to the recent situation where sellers received notification that their brand’s domain name was preemptively registered by a service provider, and then the Amazon product information was synchronized to the brand’s independent website, and then an in-site letter was sent disguised as the GBC law firm to intimidate the sellers.

Now you can directly complain to Amazon that your images infringe the copyright, and the purpose is to make sellers buy brand domain names at high prices. In this case, sellers have to file a complaint on the domain name registration platform, and on the other hand, they have to file a complaint on Amazon, submitting PSD files of their own images and other information.

In recent years, there have been too many examples of commonly used words being registered as trademarks. However, these complaints also frequently occur before big sales, so sellers must manage their listings carefully recently, and be especially vigilant against malicious follow-selling and various infringements to avoid losses.