Hi everyone, i just listed my first product on seller central few weeks ago and haven't got even a single sale yet. I bought it from a manufacturer out in china , did my own labelling and logo and didn't do the amazon brand registry thing. But since i listed my product , there is no single sale yet. Recently i changed my seller central account to professional account and started a campaign but it haven't delivered anything yet maybe because my budget is too low since i am already breakeven on my product. I am just trying to get rid of that tiny inventory in FBA and trying to learn from my mistakes. Do you have any suggestions or any ideas about how to get those few sales ?I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m brand new to Amazon selling and I could really use some advice from people who have been doing this longer than me.

For the past couple of days I’ve spent what feels like countless hours scanning products with SellerAmp, checking Keepa, and searching through different stores. The biggest problem I keep running into is gating. Almost every product I find ends up requiring approval, so I can’t even move forward.

I know finding profitable products takes work, and I’m not looking for someone to hand me a winning product. I’m just trying to figure out where beginners should actually be looking. Are there certain stores, categories, or brands that are more beginner friendly and usually ungated?

Also, how do you guys consistently find products that have good demand without competing against hundreds of sellers? I feel like every product I check is either gated, has way too much competition, or just doesn’t make enough profit.

If you were starting over today with a brand new seller account, where would you begin? Any tips, strategies, or places to source inventory would honestly mean a lot.

Appreciate any advice. I’m determined to stick with it, I just feel like I’m missing something.

• Estoy con una búsqueda de un: Amazon Specialist
• Objetivo del Cargo Ejecutar de forma precisa y oportuna las tareas operativas de la estrategia de marketing en Amazon: optimización de listings, gestión operativa de PPC, contenido visual y documentación de seguridad, asegurando que todos los procesos se realicen con calidad y en los tiempos establecidos por el Brand Manager.
• ¿Qué harás en este rol? Gestión de Listings y Optimización: revisar, actualizar y optimizar todos los listings activos en Amazon, asegurando que estén completos, optimizados y sin errores visuales. Gestión de PPC y Análisis de Métricas: responsable de ejecutar análisis de PPC, generar reportes mensuales y apoyar al Brand Manager en la optimización de campañas Gestión de Contenido, Documentación de Seguridad y Registro de Imágenes: responsable de subir contenido multimedia, gestionar la documentación de seguridad de producto requerida por Amazon y registrar imágenes en Safe Creative Gestión de Casos y Errores Amazon: responsable de gestionar y resolver los errores técnicos de listings en Amazon, documentando cada caso para su resolución y aprendizaje posterior. Responsable del servicio al cliente, gestión de reseñas, voice of customer

Just wrapped up my second month on FBA and wanted to share some real numbers and get feedback from people who've been at this longer.

Revenue was around $22K across both months combined. TACOS is sitting at 11%, which I know is high. Net margin after FBA fees, PPC, and COGS is around 9%. Not losing money, but not where I want to be.

A couple things I'm trying to figure out. My conversion rate on my main listing is around 8%, and I genuinely don't know if that's acceptable for my category or something I should be fixing aggressively. Also, my return rate jumped to 4% in month two. No idea if that's a red flag or just normal variance.

I came from logistics, so the supply chain side felt comfortable from the start. PPC and listing optimization are still pretty new territory for me.

I run my own sales on Amazon in Europe. I would like to work or provide a store service in the U.S. for sellers or manufacturers. Is there a demand for it in the USA or is Amazon so common there that it is not a service?

I am going to work for a local business who wants to start selling more online. We live close to a new warehouse, Tyler Texas, and I’m wondering if we start selling with Amazon, can we save shipping costs by us dropping off the product directly to the warehouse? I’m not sure if that’s even an option.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently living in Sharjah, UAE, and I'm interested in starting an Amazon dropshipping business. I've been researching different business models and would like to understand what's realistically required to get started in the UAE.

I have a few questions for those who have experience selling on Amazon in the UAE:

• What would you say is the minimum realistic budget to start an Amazon dropshipping business?
• Approximately how much does an e-commerce/trade license cost?
• Is dropshipping a good option for a complete beginner, or would you recommend starting with FBM or FBA instead?
• What are the biggest expenses I should expect besides the trade license?
• Are there any common mistakes that beginners should avoid?

A little about me: I have a software development background and I'm looking to build a legitimate long-term business rather than trying to make quick money.

I'd really appreciate any advice, experiences, or recommendations from people who have already gone through this journey.

Thanks in advance!

TLDR:
Amazon incorrectly routed my baby gym play mat / early-development toy into Infant Walker and Infant Support Cushion compliance categories. I completed the correct children’s toy compliance path, including CPC, ASTM F963 toy testing, lab validation, images, and videos.
Amazon even acknowledged in writing that the queue was incorrectly assigned to my product. More than a month later, the ASINs are still blocked, internal review keeps dragging, promised leadership callbacks do not happen, and nobody removes the incorrect requirements.
Has anyone successfully fixed an incorrect regulated-product classification? Should I push Catalog, Executive Seller Relations, or consider a formal lawyer notice?

DETAIL:

I’m posting here because I’m honestly running out of patience and options.

I sell a baby activity/play gym product with two color variations. It is basically a 3-in-1 baby gym play mat / early-development toy. It is a flat play mat with toy/rattle interaction, music/piano play, and baby floor-play activity features.

Amazon is incorrectly treating the product as both:

• Infant Walker
• Infant Support Cushion

The product is not either of those.

For the walker side: it has no seat, harness, enclosed containment area, leg openings, suspended seating position, or any structure where a baby sits inside the product.

For the support cushion side: it has no pillow insert, raised sidewalls, bolsters, reclined/inclined surface, restraints, or contoured support area intended to cradle, position, incline, or support an infant’s body.

Why did I mention all these "it has no"? Because I read through Amazon docs and these are the things that Amazon uses as identifers.

It is a flat baby gym play mat / early-development toy for supervised floor play.

Correct compliance was already completed

For one color variation, I completed the correct children’s toy compliance path through a lab accepted through Amazon’s compliance service process.

Submitted documents included:

• CPC
• ASTM F963-23 toy test report
• Product conformity validation report
• product images
• product videos

The validation report shows:

• Product Category: Toys
• Product Description: 3 in 1 Baby playmat
• Overall Result: PASS

The second color variation is also going through the same toy validation process.

So I am not trying to bypass compliance. I have completed the correct children’s toy compliance path. The problem is that Amazon attached unrelated regulated-product requirements to the ASINs because of incorrect classification/routing.

Amazon already admitted the routing was wrong

In one Seller Support case, Amazon replied in writing:

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That response referenced both color variations.

But instead of removing the incorrect requirements, they told me to use the Product Compliance appeal flow.

I did that. The appeals kept getting rejected with template responses.

The appeal loop

For one ASIN, I appealed the Infant Walker requirement and explained in detail why the product has no walker characteristics. Amazon rejected it saying the product “has characteristics” of an Infant Walker, but did not identify which characteristic, image, feature, intended use, or policy definition they were relying on.

For the other ASIN, I appealed the Infant Support Cushion requirement and explained in detail why the product has no cushion/lounger/body-support characteristics. Same thing: rejected with template language, no specific explanation.

Oddly, one Infant Walker requirement for one color was later removed, and Amazon replied:

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So Amazon removed one incorrect requirement from one color, while the same product family is still stuck with other incorrect requirements.

Manual review has now dragged on for over a month

I opened a manual review case explaining that this is not a missing-document issue. It is a classification/catalog routing issue.

For weeks, the replies were basically:

• internal team is reviewing
• internal team has been asked to respond
• internal team is still investigating
• please wait

Amazon later replied that the case was escalated internally for a manual classification review covering both ASINs and specifically said this was focused on product classification/routing errors, not a repeat of the previously rejected Product Compliance appeal workflow.

They acknowledged the delay was impacting my business, including inventory being held, storage fees, and lost sales.

I called again and finally reached a support rep who actually listened named Roberto. He reviewed the history and said this looks more like a Catalog / Product Classification issue, not a Compliance document issue. He said the case appeared to have been sent to Compliance, but he believed it should go to Catalog/Product Classification because the wrong product classification is causing the wrong compliance requirements to attach.

That is exactly what I have been saying for over a month.

He said he would email his supervisor requesting approval to move/escalate it to Catalog. His supervisor allowed him and he claimed he moved the case. He asked me to wait 2 days and callback again if no response or resolution.

I then submitted another detailed summary with all related case IDs, both child ASINs, and every incorrect requirement to help the new team.

Still no real resolution. I waited 3 days, then called again. Ended up getting a rep that was more like a robot just repeating the same template replies and to wait.

So I got furious and demanded to be moved to their supervisor. Then they promised a leadership callback within one business day.

No callback came. No resolution, nothing.

Current situation

I am stuck with:

• Amazon acknowledging incorrect routing
• Amazon saying the case is under internal classification review
• Amazon saying leadership will call
• no callback
• no actual correction
• ASINs still blocked
• incorrect Infant Walker / Infant Support Cushion requirements still attached
• supplier inventory stuck
• storage costs and lost sales continuing
• appeals looping into template rejections

This has been going on for more than a month.

I genuinely do not understand what sellers are supposed to do when Amazon admits the product was incorrectly routed but nobody actually removes the incorrect compliance requirements.

Questions

Has anyone here successfully gotten Amazon to fix an incorrect regulated-product classification when Product Compliance keeps rejecting with template responses?

Should I push this through:

• Catalog team?
• Account Health?
• Seller Support leadership?
• Seller Forums moderator escalation?
• Executive Seller Relations?
• legal notice?

At what point is it reasonable to send a formal lawyer notice asking Amazon to either:

1. identify the exact product feature/policy basis for the Infant Walker / Infant Support Cushion classification, or
2. remove the incorrect compliance classifications they already acknowledged were incorrectly routed?

I’m not trying to avoid real compliance. I already completed the correct children’s toy compliance route. I just cannot keep being pushed toward irrelevant certifications for product categories the item clearly does not belong to.

Any serious advice from experienced sellers would be appreciated.

Hello guys is there any one can help me for product research to start my side hustle on Amazon market ?

I started an auto campaign a few months ago just to test the waters and see how my product performs with ads. Impressions and clicks have been basically nonexistent the whole time.

I kept my default bid at $1 because I assumed Amazon's "suggested bid" ($2.56 in my case) was just a way to push sellers into spending more. Now I'm wondering if that assumption was wrong.

Could bidding below the suggested range be the actual reason I'm not getting impressions or clicks? Or is something else likely going on?

A while back I registered a US trademark (Pawspioneer) planning to launch a pet accessories brand on Amazon. Went through the whole process — name clearance, USPTO registration, the works — with Brand Registry in mind.

Plans shifted and I ended up not launching under this specific name. The trademark is fully registered and clean, no products tied to it, no baggage.

Given how much time IP Accelerator and pending trademark routes still take for a lot of sellers, I figured someone in this niche might rather skip that process entirely. I've got it listed on Communer if anyone wants to see the details, but honestly just curious first — has anyone here bought or sold a registered trademark instead of filing their own? Did it actually save meaningful time, or is it usually not worth it compared to just filing pending and building Brand Registry that way?

Happy to answer questions either way.

Heyy
Been digging into data in my niche and noticing the X-Ray estimated sales are just… inconsistently off. Like sometimes close, sometimes way off, no pattern I can find.

Tried to nail down some kind of consistent deviation range (like ±X%) to calibrate against my actual numbers but came up empty. Nothing reliable.
I Can’t use Jungle Scout’s stuff either since I’m trying to crunch a ton of data and don’t have the budget for their API pricing.
The parent estimate is way closer than the variations, but still not something I’d bet money on.

Figure it’s probably seasonality + niche dependent, but has anyone actually dug into this deep enough to have real numbers/experience? Would love to hear how you guys calibrate this stuff, or if you’ve found any consistent pattern to the deviation.

One of the simplest strategies I use is a manual campaign called LAZY_PPC.

I add around 200 targeting suggestions from Amazon Ads, including exact, phrase and broad keywords, product targeting, and category targeting.

Then I set very low bids, usually below $0.10 (0,10€), and leave the campaign running.

The only thing I do is add new targets every one or two months when Amazon gives me more recommendations.

It doesn’t generate huge volume, but it keeps bringing in sales almost on autopilot with a ridiculously low ACOS.

It’s one of those small campaigns that doesn’t need much attention but keeps working in the background.

Do you have any similar Amazon Ads strategies or “hacks” that have worked well for you?

Example Amazon Europe

Hello, I’d like to offer my help by giving you feedback on your products, as I also need feedback on mine. If you're interested, please don't hesitate to get in touch! Thanks in advance.

Applied in mid May after instructions were given on how to apply via the CBP.gov website: https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/electronic-refund-enrollment-one-pager_508c.pdf

To be honest the refund was faster than I anticipated and for how minimal the process was. The crazy thing is how there is how no confirmation other than seeing you uploaded a file to the portal and no notice of the refund arriving other than the funds hitting.

For anyone that's sitting around waiting to do it- just get off your ass and do it already. It's stupidly easy: you just upload a CSV file with a single column of CBP entry numbers, that's it.

What's an entry number you ask? That's the form DHS/CBP sends you that says "Entry Summary" at the top and tells you how much duty/tariffs you owe. Very first box at the top left is your Filer Code/Entry Number. Just put a list of all the entry numbers for shipments that were tariffed at the excess rate.

Don't pay your broker/freight forwarder a 10% fee to do it for you or I will personally slap you through your monitor. We all bitch and moan about being nickle and dimed by Amazon but here is a magical gift of easy money and I know there's some of you being lazy or scared to do it.

The More You know.

I have a large removal order about +1500 units of product, I've never had to remove these many units at once, and the majority of the time, it would be through small parcels. I have a small warehouse, nothing crazy, just 800sf. However, I don't have a forklift for the next month. I need to be proactive and conduct this removal order within a week, two weeks max, before it expires. Is there a way to request a lift gate for removal orders? With 1500+ units, im estimating around 3 pallets, 4 at most.

I've been deep in the Amazon world for a while now and I genuinely want to understand how full-time sellers handle the workload.

Between listing optimization, PPC campaigns, customer messages, inventory management, and constant algorithm changes, it feels like a full-time job just keeping up.

A few questions for experienced sellers:

At what point did you realize you needed help managing your account?

Do you handle PPC yourself or did you hand it off? Was it worth it?

What tasks eat the most of your time but feel the least productive?

I'm trying to understand where sellers actually feel the most pain, curious if it's the same across the board or totally different for everyone.

Genuine answers only, no pitching please 🙏