patrickxie

Can you elaborate more on the first sentence?

Your second tweet in the article regarding to the rate of returns. What's time horizon?

commingling is when you use manufacturer barcode when you label your individual units.

This means the products you send into Amazon FBA warehouse will be mixed with other sellers.

This is an issue because if other sellers have problematic inventory, you are on the hook for their mess up.

First: DO NOT email jeff@amazon.com, DO NOT Do media or any of crazy stuff like that.

I have to be honest with you OP. This is a case of you not understanding how the platform works, while Amazon is unclear in their policies. If you give them what they need, they will collaborate with you most of the time.

Here's what I believe happened based on what you provided.

Your product listing, you must have created using manufacturer's barcode. You can check your seller central Settings -> Fulfillment By Amazon http://prntscr.com/n6j53l

If you had this at manufacturer barcode, or created the listing with manufacturer barcode. Then your products are commingled with the other sellers.

From what I saw in the image, it looks like the other seller Adorama sent in a product that looked used to the buyer. Then buyer complained. Now you are on the hook since the products are commingled.

If this is indeed the case you will need to write a Plan of action that addresses what Amazon is asking.

Point them to your manufacturer's website (https://www.getfractals.com)

Root cause - inventory commmingling

Action Taken - removed all inventory to verify no issues

Prevention - no more commingling

Sourcing: I source directly from manufacturer, I am the brand owner and manufacturer. point to the your website, and LINK the verifiable information back to you (same address, same storefront name, same personal nam etc), this is to prove you are sourcing from legitimate source.

Listing: You have double checked listing to make sure product matches

Packaging & Shipping: address this if necessary

Buyer communication: I've reached out to buyer, and found out this product is from a commingled seller.

Also you will need to draft a invoice to yourself (your manufacturer identity to your own seller identity) in order to give the document amazon needs to pass this.

If you draft the correct POA plan, Amazon will accept it. Also make sure you never use commingling if you create your own products!

Hi Ganesh, I couldn't find a direct email from your profile.

We resell name brands on Amazon, we work with brands to resell their products on Amazon. One of the most often request is MAP violator takedowns, we need a way to monitor brand's listings on Amazon to find people who violate MAP pricing.

Another request is sales opportunity. Like what listings could use improvement, and what listings can use more adspend. With Amazon, you can reverse engineer a lot of this stuff, it's presenting it to the brand in a seamless manner that's the hard part. I'd be happy to discuss more. You can get my email in my profile.

what's your contact info, I am experiencing problems in Amazon reselling space that we need solutions for, but no time to build. We might be able to work together, can you drop your contact in your profile.

This is perfect idea. Here's usecase.

At our startup, our main cashflow is reselling on Amazon. The current business model we are using shares a lot of similarity with other Amazon sellers. There are a lot of workflows that are cookie cutter across other sellers/companies that can be automated/improved with custom tools.

There's demand for what we need (automation tools, api tools to request specific materials from Amazon), we will even pay and be the first customer ourselves.

If we can get equity for you to build this tool, this is a no brainer idea!

You can reach out to me in my profile, love to setup a call to discuss a bit more on this.

can you drop your contact info in your profile so that we can contact you? We do amazon reselling, interested in learning more about the reseller site you are working on. Also have tools that we are looking to build ourselves (we will pay for), that other sellers like us are interested in paying to use as well.

not sure, I am a seller using their services, not an investor. Are you not able to invest in new deals?

You can look into investing them in Amazon resellers. you can use a platform like upfund.io, or loan it out to Amazon sellers you know personally, from my experience investors can expect 40%+ annual returns. This is because the FBA business models can yield 200%+ yearly ROI for the resellers themselves.

keyvalues is fantastic, I've spoken with Lynn(the founder) once. she was kind, inspiring, and focused. I think you won't go wrong reaching out to her for assistance on how to write a good job placement ad.

wow thanks for the perspective.

have you tried paint by numbers? are those less exhausting for you?

My previous startup that I worked on was to solve the problem of "I want to paint, but I don't know where to start".

We used the deep learning style transfer to stylize pictures/drawings with Van Gogh Style. Here's the best one that turned out great (out of 10,000 pictures we styled, this is what everyone loves unanimously) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07831NQJ7

Then we turn them into paint by numbers kit. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H2VDKM1

Apparently the paint is classified as Hazmat, and it took us 6 month to get this thing approved to sell on Amazon. Which kind of killed the idea, as we had to pivot and do other things in order to stay afloat.

I always wanted to learn to paint, but I don't know where to start. I know the first few paintings is going to be ugly, and I don't really want to paint apples and oranges to learn. So this whole startup idea is to make it easy and fun to get started on painting and get the momentum going, because what you paint is idea(picture) created by you. And the painting methodology is simply filling in numbers with colors.

I hope one day I have the time to get back to this. I really believe in this idea.

Setting up the account to try this for our small team, we're running everything on different spreadsheets, pulling different sheets has been "hey X, can you get me the sheet url for Y again". Thanks for the startup friendly pricing model, keep up the great work!

it's not a bug, it's a exploit that fraudulent sellers are abusing.

Since any seller can list on any listing. Some sellers will list their products on listings that are out of stock, and gain editing priviledges.

Then they will edit the page to whatever other products they want, and merge it with a new listing they create.

The end result is that they get a listing with hundreds or thousands of reviews. So unsuspecting customer will purchase based on social proof.

what are some detailed changes that have worked for you?

does this work over in china?

have you or anyone you know had experience with this site?

1) Amazon can lower fees easily, that's a 10 ~ 20% profit margin, which invites more competitors and thus lower prices.

If you believe your account is flagged, you can sell that account to people who are willing to purchase Aged Amazon accounts, they will buy out the remainder of your Amazon prime payments.

From my experience in speaking with talented technical people. The greater part of the satisfaction of a job comes from the peers you work with and the people you are around with rather than technical solutions.

Have you tried searching for the right company with the right values and culture that would allow similarly minded people to flourish?

I am not aware of a service that allows you to find companies with interesting technical problems as of yet so I can't recommend you one.

I do know of keyvalues.com is a service that lets engineers find companies with the qualities that matter to them.

What problem spaces are you passionate about? What type of societal problems are you personally interested in solving?

Do you mind putting your contact info in your profile. I know someone who is your exact situation, I'd like to forward the outcomes of your decision to that person.

This is a great idea. Can I apply with the following profile?

Entrepreneur currently working on scaling a startup I founded a year ago. Have a list of business ideas would like to pursue. Assembling a team is the biggest challenge.

Have skills in taking a product from idea to market fit. (technical + marketing)

you can

A) increase the price, without knowing your product, you have market fit, it could be because of the pricing, or it could be because of the product.

B) Offer 3mo/6mo/full year bundle w/ light discount, this way you can increase cash flow up front to use to get to your next growth target.

which IDE do you use these 3 with?

what other ways can we use to measure worker's output quality and quantity other than the easily quantifiable factor of "time"?

impressive thanks for the wonderful read.

You can also not actually charge them, all you need is their intention for commitment to purchase, depending on the Saas, but you can just capture the credit card details only. Not actually file a charge, believe you can do this with stripe. Redirect the customer later to a page to tell them your product is coming soon.

could this idea work? tie these devices to balloons, so they can reach the high humidities of the clouds, then when waters collect the balloons will drop to the ground, dumping the water into a collector. as the water is dumped the device rises again to continue humidity collection.