Selling Your Stuff on Amazon Part 13 - Advice for newbies in first two posts

soolin

halojones wrote: »

I have found Amazon very slow since Christmas and I'm going to have get rid of my pro status, which will make me work harder ;-(

Just don't forget to go through your books to make sure you take out any that will make a loss when you revert to normal status. That 86p can make all the difference between profit and loss with margins being so tight at the moment.

discountmummy

I had an order today but then an urgent request that I send it to a non uk address and adjust the postage. I just cancelled the order and explained that I only post to UK addresses. Is this all i need to do? Will amazon ask why or anything?

Why dont they ask before they buy!!!

soolin

discountmummy wrote: »

I had an order today but then an urgent request that I send it to a non uk address and adjust the postage. I just cancelled the order and explained that I only post to UK addresses. Is this all i need to do? Will amazon ask why or anything?

Why dont they ask before they buy!!!

Yes it affects your seller metrics and buyer can still leave feedback.

It is usually better to contact CS and ask them to sort it out and get their agreement not to proceed and an assurance that they will remove any feedback if you take their advice to cancel.

JesaRose

Amazon is very slow for me at the moment too, just one or two orders a day. But this is an improvement on the last couple of weeks which were even worse

hermum

P'd right off. When I set up my sellers account a couple of weeks ago, I registered my credit card. Co-op have now cancelled it due to their responsible lending, do I now have to stop selling on Amazon? As I only have a debit card? I do somewhere have a prepaid Paypal one, does anyone know if that is acceptable to Amazon?
Thank you

soolin

You may struggle with Amazon without a card it recognises as a credit card. I'm sure we did have someone else post that they had tried a pre paid card, but I just can't recall the outcome.

hermum

Will try that when I find it & post the outcome.

soolin

Reading the seller boards it seems that Amazon are not allowing any leeway re the volcano issue. There have been bits on threads where sellers are either selling from the far flung reaches of Scotland (where stuff is routinely sent down South by air) or even in the main bit of the UK where stuff can travel by air even within the UK. It appears that some sellers have contacted CS to ask if the delivery times will be extended because when buyers get to leave feedback they are given a small time frame and asked whether the item arrived by then, and in many cases this iwll not happen.

CS have apparently told them that they must then find a suitable alternative way of getting their stuff to the buyer as the delivery times will stand.
So I'm sitting here looking at a book that needs to get to The highlands and going :eek:

What makes it worse is that Amazon is so slow for me, that neutral I got is getting mroe and more prominent as th epositives i got before it fall off the months totals and no one else is leaving any feedback.

Can I panic yet please?

medway29

Does anyone know if a prepay card can be used with amazon? I do not have any debit or credit cards and have bad credit history:(

And if so which one I can use?

Thanks

Any advise greatly appreciated

soolin

medway29 wrote: »

Does anyone know if a prepay card can be used with amazon? I do not have any debit or credit cards and have bad credit history:(

And if so which one I can use?

Thanks

Any advise greatly appreciated

Hermum on post 226 is just going to give a pre paid a try I think.