r/AmazonMerch

I've started getting some Design Rejected emails for designs that have been up and selling for years. Went through my listings and deleted all that had the word that was suddenly no good according to the emails. I don't mind deleting so much; most weren't really selling anyhow. I'm just hoping they don't shut down my account for it. Hopefully they see it as a good-faith effort to delete them as soon as I saw the email.

This is the first time I've ever seen my account closed seemingly arbitrarily. The notice stated Policy violations and inactivity when I uploaded a new design just yesterday. I was in the premium tier with over 700 designs making thousands per month and out of the blue Amazon deleted my account. I never anticipated this since I stayed within the user policy and never gave them any reason to delete my account. I know others have dealt with this and I submitted an appeal. Any advice of what to expect? Correction: 11 years, I started MBA in 2015.

I had a Tier 1,000 Merch by Amazon account. Amazon terminated it, and every listing and all the traffic went with it. No way to take the customers with me.

The part that stung most: a few of my shirts only ever sold well because Amazon was running Google Shopping ads on them. When Amazon stopped those ads, sales tanked. So the traffic was never really Amazon's marketplace. It was Google Shopping, and I can buy that myself.

So that's what I built. Here's the stack and what it actually took.

The stack

• WordPress + WooCommerce on shared hosting I already pay for
• Printful for printing and shipping (print on demand, same idea as MBA)
• A product feed from the store into Google Merchant Center
• A Standard Shopping campaign in Google Ads, US only, $5 a day to start

Why it's better than MBA

• Margin per shirt is better than the royalty Amazon paid me, because I set the price.
• The store, the listings and the customer emails are mine. Nobody can terminate them.
• I control the ads instead of hoping Amazon keeps running them.

If MBA is your only channel, build the backup before you need it.

I'm on the premium tier; I have always been. So there is no change for me at the beginning of this month.
But as of today, royalties for products that are on sale have been lowered.
So for a shirt ($19.99) that is not on sale, the royalty is still $5.28.
If the shirt ($19.99) is on sale, the royalty is §2.88. Used to be $3.38.

And of course, 80% of my sales are from products that are on sale

This is the same low royalty it was when they started with this BS last year.

I know that Amazon is just a bunch of greedy ###ho1es, but this is really killing me.

How do it setup the bank details so i can receive the royalties. I mean I keep receiving these emails from amazon saying “you need to correct your bank info for these marketplaces: amazon.co.uk.” I couldn’t find any guide elsewhere to setup the uk payment. In the amazon settings i gives the same message.
The US account is working perfectly fine.