u/sbaeidlloan

Is there any way to withdraw your Amazon funds quicker than the standard 2 weeks?

Im a 3rd party seller of branded products on Amazon. I get my share of inauthentic complaints. When that happens, I need to prove authenticity by sending in invoices. If I don't do that, I can not sell that particular ASIN anymore. If Amazon refuses to accept my invoices as proof of authenticity and inauthentic complaint starts to add up and this causes Amazon to suspend my account (due to too many inauthentic complaints), will I be able to remove my other FBA inventory from Amazon warehouses? Also, if the account gets suspended for this reason, what happens to the money that is in my account at that time? Will I be able to get my money out?

FYI, I spoke with Amazon about this and they said (1) I will be able to remove other ASINS and (2) I will get my funds back after 90 days.

I sell brand name eyewear using FBA. Due to Amazon's refusal to accept my invoices and various other documents I have submitted as proof of authenticity, I have come to the conclusion that selling on Amazon is no longer viable for my high end gray market eyewear after 18+ years. To make matters worse, I found out that if they suspend my account due to too many "inauthentic" complaints, they will prevent me from removing my FBA inventory. They are saying they will destroy all my FBA inventory - even the ones that have no complaints on. Obviously, that is insane as I have over 5000+ units that cost over $300,000 at my cost. There is no way I would accept that decision.

So, I am trying to figure out what my best course of action is.

Last week, I reduced all the prices to as low as Im willing to go but the problem with that is that more I sell, more fake complaints I will get - it's just a simple % numbers game. So simply lowering the price and hoping I can sell through my FBA inventory is dangerous as my account will get suspended sooner than selling at slower rate. So this is not the answer.

Proactively removing my FBA inventory is another option but the removal fee is now crazy expensive and would cost me at least $8000 to remove all my FBA inventory. So I was thinking perhaps the best course of action is to remove the most expensive items and dump the cheapest items on FBA. That will cost me less in removal fees and I will sell cheaper items which should result in lower fake complaint % rate than the more expensive items. Removing everything is not really an option as it will cost too much and I don't have the space to warehouse them all. So this strategy seems like a good compromise.

What do you think? What would YOU do in my situation?

As a side note, Ive been selling on Amazon since 2008 and it has been a good run but it is no longer possible for gray market sellers to sell on Amazon. Last few years has been hell on Amazon for 3rd party sellers like me. Im ready to quit.

Lets say you want to quit your AZ FBA biz and you want to dump all your FBA inventory. If you have about 10,000 pieces, you can't just cut your prices because Amazon's algo will suppress the listing due to price rules.

So how can you go about getting rid of all your FBA inventory? Removing them will cost money so selling them will be the best solution. But how?

Is it my imagination or is everything on Vine super overpriced??? Every time I get something, the price seems to drop hugely after 2/3 months. And I mean by ALOT.

Why does Amazon buy from 3rd party sellers? Amazon is my biggest and best customer - never returns and always pays the highest prices. But why do they buy from me? I sell brand name products as a 3rd party seller on AZ. In last 15 years, Amazon has purchased over 3,000 units o randomly different items. Not a single item returned. Not a single complaint.

Why do they buy them?