Shocking! Amazon charges $100,000 to check for copyright infringement

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Our Amazon seller circle is not very large, and all kinds of information are basically only passed around among sellers. If you are not someone in our industry, few people can understand the status of sellers, and major domestic media are generally not very interested in this.

But just yesterday, I actually saw a domestic technology media report on the survival status of us Amazon sellers, and I couldn’t help but take a closer look.

It doesn't matter if you take a look at it, there are really too many things I want to complain about, so I'll take advantage of today (3-15) to share with you some of the doubts and inappropriateness of this article.

Let’s put aside the theoretical part of the article. After all, if you are not a seller, you can’t expect his analysis to be very accurate. Let’s go straight to the actual cases listed in the article.

The first case, first picture

To put it briefly, this is a case of a shipment that was inexplicably lost by Amazon, and after a while it was discovered that Amazon was selling its lost shipments through its own operations.

I have highlighted the points of suspicion for everyone to see. Even someone who has never worked for Amazon should be able to see some clues.

How can a product that has not even been put on the shelves have already paid storage and advertising fees?

Sellers who have actually done this know that Amazon's storage fees are calculated and deducted at the beginning of the next month (from the 1st to the 10th), and the long-term storage fee is 15 days. If the goods are lost before they are put on the shelves, Amazon will not be able to charge the storage fee for this batch of goods except for compensation according to the market price.

Another very important point

Compensation for lost items is paid according to the estimated income!!

Compensation for lost items is paid according to the estimated income!!

Compensation for lost items is paid according to the estimated income!!

▲Amazon’s official policy introduction page

This is equivalent to the batch of goods of Xue Chang (pseudonym) in this incident being purchased at full price at one time. This also saves subsequent storage fees and daily promotion costs, which is definitely much more than the profit you get from selling them yourself.

This is why, when there was a fire in Amazon's mem1 warehouse last time and many goods were burned, we Chinese sellers were only worried about running out of stock, because many bosses were hoping that their products would be lost or damaged by Amazon.

The same principle also applies to another example listed in the original text:

Since the goods were damaged during the transportation from FBA to the buyer, they are definitely subject to the above compensation policy. There is no such thing as buying the goods at a low price and then selling them yourself.

▲Amazon’s official policy introduction page

This article uses a lot of space to criticize Amazon's lost goods problem, but the examples cited are very questionable and completely inconsistent with the actual situation. In terms of handling lost goods, Amazon has basically achieved one of the best services among e-commerce platforms , so it is really a tall order to criticize this point.

Let’s take a look at the rest of the original author’s opinions to see if there are any more shocking ones.

The following are some very strange fragmentary opinions. I will briefly explain some of them to you.

With just one sentence, the investment managers were turned into multi-millionaires. Not to mention that this so-called "gray income" did not provide any credible basis at all, in fact, the authority of the investment managers was not as high as it sounded to outsiders.

Their job is to attract investment and find people to open stores.

The most valuable service is to report BD. In fact, if there is any problem in the store, they don’t have any so-called internal channels. You still have to send emails to consult the relevant Amazon team. There is really nothing special. The original author of the same problem also appeared here below

Selling the services originally provided by the investment manager in a package? 2500 USD a year? ? The original author is just making a big deal. If you can enjoy BD reporting at will for 2500 USD a year, wouldn’t sellers be scrambling to buy this service?

I asked several seller classmates, and no one had ever heard of this service. Since no sellers know about it, how can we talk about the term protection fee? (PS. Anyone who has heard of it, please come and tell me)

This kind of false and exaggerated method also puts the service providers on a pedestal. The service of checking the infringement reasons for a few thousand yuan at most has instantly increased to 100,000 yuan per time . I guess the service providers who see this will laugh in their dreams.

The last article is basically confirmed to be a "deep analysis" written by someone who has no in-depth understanding of Amazon, and even the examples may be fabricated to attract attention. In fact, it is just to deceive laymen, and real Amazon sellers are just watching a joke.

Although there is still a lot of negative information about Amazon, compared with other e-commerce platforms, Amazon's advantages are still very obvious. Last year, sellers complained about the high fees of FBA and the abuse of VC's authority. This year, Amazon lowered the commission and storage fees and killed the VC account . No other platform can be as large as Amazon and still keep its policies so up-to-date.

So we sellers should still do what we should do, improve our own operation technology, stay away from fake orders, and make money. If you want to read this "in-depth analysis", you can directly scan the code and chat with me to ask for the link~

PS. If you want to join the seller discussion group, you can also private message me to let me add you to the group

Source: Cross-border Business School

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