Emergency policy! FBA has completely stopped accepting goods, and sellers can only...

Christmas is coming, and sellers are actively preparing for the final sprint at the end of the year! However, a sudden notice from Amazon yesterday was a chilling blow!

On December 9, Amazon issued an official announcement:

Amazon Logistics will stop receiving Christmas goods on December 3. Please wait until January of the following year to send us replenishment inventory, because during the Christmas shopping season, we have to go all out to process and deliver buyers' orders and have no time to take care of other things. Thank you for providing buyers with high-quality products at a great price. It is our honor to help you deliver goods, make buyers happy to buy, and make you feel comfortable selling.

The warehouse was closed for receipt of goods on December 3, but the sellers were not notified until December 9. This move made countless sellers indignant!

Regarding this matter, the editor also opened a case to consult the customer service. The customer service said that they had just received this notice and expressed their helplessness!

In previous years, it was understandable that FBA was slow to enter the warehouse during the peak season, but this year, they simply did not put the goods on the shelves, which made many people unacceptable! Especially for some Christmas goods, if they cannot be put on the shelves, don’t they have to wait until next year to sell them?

In addition to the reply from the customer service representative mentioned above, some sellers also consulted other customer service representatives, but the customer service representatives said that they had already informed everyone!

The customer service representative said that this notice had already been sent on October 21, and now it is being sent again as a reminder!

We found a logistics notice from Amazon on October 21st, which required sellers to send goods for the "holiday gift-giving season" to FBA before December 3rd! This notice did not say that goods would not be accepted after December 3rd.

Moreover, the customer service also stated that although the goods sent to FBA during this period can be put into storage normally, Amazon does not guarantee that a certain percentage of the goods will not be lost. Doing business with Amazon is really full of pitfalls!

This may be relatively good news, I hope it is true!

According to insiders, the reason why Amazon issued the notice to stop entering the warehouse this year is because Amazon had a large number of orders that needed to be delivered on Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday. The warehouse staff were all pulled to deliver the orders, so there were insufficient staff to receive the goods!

Some sellers also said: There are similar statements every year. It seems that they are not accepting shipments, but in fact they should still be able to receive shipments. Some friends reported that two FBA shipments were received yesterday.

According to the editor’s guess, each warehouse has different staffing arrangements. For warehouses with sufficient staff, Amazon will arrange for sellers to put products on the shelves! It’s just that it’s clearly the official fault, but the sellers have to pay for it, which is really disgusting!

Just before the "FBA Stop Warehousing" notice was issued, Amazon had just updated a policy called "Amazon Storage and Replenishment" in Canada! One of the provisions of this policy is: sellers are allowed to store inventory near Amazon's distribution points to quickly replenish inventory. Sellers no longer need to worry about inventory shortages due to a surge in orders, which will cause a drop in rankings.

Maybe by next year, when this policy is widely implemented, there will be a big improvement in the storage shortage problem during the peak season!

At present, if sellers are facing the risk of out-of-stock, they can start from the following aspects:

Of course, I hope Amazon can arrange the warehouse staff as much as possible to ensure that the sellers' goods can be safely put on the shelves! Otherwise, this will not only affect the sellers' sales, but also Amazon's stock price. I hope it can understand!