Where do YOU think we are headed in 2025?
Dear Fellow Amazon Sellers,
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year for many of us in the Amazon seller community. I wanted to reach out to gauge how everyone is doing and see if we can collectively bring attention to some of the hurdles we’re all facing.
Our Story:
We’ve been selling on Amazon for four years, and while we’ve grown significantly—selling over 250,000 units this year through a mix of manufacturing, reselling, and exclusive brand representation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sustain this growth. 2024 has been the toughest year yet.
This year alone, Amazon introduced several new fees and policies that have drastically impacted our business:
- Low inventory fees
- Inbound shipping fees
- Increased fees for low-priced items
- Removal of the under-$9.99 fee discount
The financial impact has been substantial. Despite doubling our sales compared to 2023, our profits have remained stagnant due to these higher costs.
Additionally, policies around bundling and AI-monitored health violations have caused several of our best-selling items to be removed from the platform, leaving us with limited ways to address these issues.
We personally know of multiple multimillion-dollar businesses—some with years of success—that have either shut down entirely or drastically downsized their workforce this year because they couldn’t navigate the current landscape.
Every day on this forum, I see sellers sharing stories of struggle and uncertainty. It makes me wonder: Is this just an isolated experience within our circle, or is it reflective of broader challenges across the platform?
We Want to Hear from You
How has your business been impacted by the changes in 2024? Are you finding ways to adapt, or are you also facing struggles with sustainability? Let’s share our experiences and see if we can create enough momentum to encourage Amazon to reconsider some of these policies.
Looking forward to hearing your stories. Let’s navigate this together.
Where do YOU think we are headed in 2025?
Dear Fellow Amazon Sellers,
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year for many of us in the Amazon seller community. I wanted to reach out to gauge how everyone is doing and see if we can collectively bring attention to some of the hurdles we’re all facing.
Our Story:
We’ve been selling on Amazon for four years, and while we’ve grown significantly—selling over 250,000 units this year through a mix of manufacturing, reselling, and exclusive brand representation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sustain this growth. 2024 has been the toughest year yet.
This year alone, Amazon introduced several new fees and policies that have drastically impacted our business:
- Low inventory fees
- Inbound shipping fees
- Increased fees for low-priced items
- Removal of the under-$9.99 fee discount
The financial impact has been substantial. Despite doubling our sales compared to 2023, our profits have remained stagnant due to these higher costs.
Additionally, policies around bundling and AI-monitored health violations have caused several of our best-selling items to be removed from the platform, leaving us with limited ways to address these issues.
We personally know of multiple multimillion-dollar businesses—some with years of success—that have either shut down entirely or drastically downsized their workforce this year because they couldn’t navigate the current landscape.
Every day on this forum, I see sellers sharing stories of struggle and uncertainty. It makes me wonder: Is this just an isolated experience within our circle, or is it reflective of broader challenges across the platform?
We Want to Hear from You
How has your business been impacted by the changes in 2024? Are you finding ways to adapt, or are you also facing struggles with sustainability? Let’s share our experiences and see if we can create enough momentum to encourage Amazon to reconsider some of these policies.
Looking forward to hearing your stories. Let’s navigate this together.
4 replies
Seller_lefJ7Z1JhNXcz
Interesting post. Here's what I'm currently dealing with:
Amazon implemented a fee category change on all of my items on November 1st, 2024. I sell bumper stickers and decals. The fee category for my items changed from Automotive and Powersports to Home and Kitchen, costing me over $1,000 a month in additional fees. I've opened support cases and tried reaching out to several community managers on the forums and it has gotten me nowhere. Its robbery and nobody at Amazon cares to do anything about it.
Seller_9z7K85RzAOGC9
I've only been selling on the platform for a year now and things were going great until around August/September. Sales have been steadily declining and now am doing about 1/3 of the sales I was doing to begin with once all of my items were finally listed on Amazon. I find Amazon's system to be a bit backwards. We pay a monthly subscription fee to be on the marketplace to list our items. I have well over 1,000 items, but no matter what Amazon only shows 320 max when you click on my "see sellers other items" never more than that, so all the rest of my items are basically hidden from buyers to see. if they want to see my full product line. On top of that, this is the only platform that tries to force sellers to make as little as possible in profits, break even or lose money by forcing us to list products cheaper than the next guy to "EARN" the buy box. When Amazon increases their fees or postage rates go up we as sellers can't seem to raise our prices in lock step to keep up or we end up losing the buy box because now our prices seem to be higher than the other guys, once again forcing less or little to no profits on us. I don't get why Amazon doesn't just let the free market play out? If they did and let all sellers items have buy boxes Amazon would make much more on their end because buyers prefer quality items over cheaper junk items and will pay the extra to get the better items. Suppressing the buy box on many sellers because Amazon automatically bunches similar items into one category and only sees low price when their AI bots can't see quality makes it hard to sell ojn this platform and make a decent profit. All other platforms I am on I am able to sell everything with none of my items hidden and make good profits, but not on here so much. It seems Amazon prefers China sellers that sell inferior products and receive shipping subsidies we don't get here in the U.S. They can ship an item all the way from china for a small fraction of what it costs us to ship to our neighbor next door with tracking. I think Amazon is on the way to pushing out sellers of quality items in preference to super low cost Chinese junk items going forward as the marketplace is filled with cheap knock offs and junk from overseas now and only seems to be growing more in that direction. As far as everyone selling FBA I don't see the advantage in doing that for anyone any longer. All the fees associated with that eat up profits even more.
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
Most have already been heading out the door or at least offering same items across all platforms and stepping away form a platform that manipulates sales dat customers feed and price fixies items along with suppression of items this platform can not compete with so they send listing to the dogs and don't forget there is ZERO seller support of any kind!
Where do YOU think we are headed in 2025?
Dear Fellow Amazon Sellers,
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year for many of us in the Amazon seller community. I wanted to reach out to gauge how everyone is doing and see if we can collectively bring attention to some of the hurdles we’re all facing.
Our Story:
We’ve been selling on Amazon for four years, and while we’ve grown significantly—selling over 250,000 units this year through a mix of manufacturing, reselling, and exclusive brand representation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sustain this growth. 2024 has been the toughest year yet.
This year alone, Amazon introduced several new fees and policies that have drastically impacted our business:
- Low inventory fees
- Inbound shipping fees
- Increased fees for low-priced items
- Removal of the under-$9.99 fee discount
The financial impact has been substantial. Despite doubling our sales compared to 2023, our profits have remained stagnant due to these higher costs.
Additionally, policies around bundling and AI-monitored health violations have caused several of our best-selling items to be removed from the platform, leaving us with limited ways to address these issues.
We personally know of multiple multimillion-dollar businesses—some with years of success—that have either shut down entirely or drastically downsized their workforce this year because they couldn’t navigate the current landscape.
Every day on this forum, I see sellers sharing stories of struggle and uncertainty. It makes me wonder: Is this just an isolated experience within our circle, or is it reflective of broader challenges across the platform?
We Want to Hear from You
How has your business been impacted by the changes in 2024? Are you finding ways to adapt, or are you also facing struggles with sustainability? Let’s share our experiences and see if we can create enough momentum to encourage Amazon to reconsider some of these policies.
Looking forward to hearing your stories. Let’s navigate this together.
Where do YOU think we are headed in 2025?
Dear Fellow Amazon Sellers,
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year for many of us in the Amazon seller community. I wanted to reach out to gauge how everyone is doing and see if we can collectively bring attention to some of the hurdles we’re all facing.
Our Story:
We’ve been selling on Amazon for four years, and while we’ve grown significantly—selling over 250,000 units this year through a mix of manufacturing, reselling, and exclusive brand representation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sustain this growth. 2024 has been the toughest year yet.
This year alone, Amazon introduced several new fees and policies that have drastically impacted our business:
- Low inventory fees
- Inbound shipping fees
- Increased fees for low-priced items
- Removal of the under-$9.99 fee discount
The financial impact has been substantial. Despite doubling our sales compared to 2023, our profits have remained stagnant due to these higher costs.
Additionally, policies around bundling and AI-monitored health violations have caused several of our best-selling items to be removed from the platform, leaving us with limited ways to address these issues.
We personally know of multiple multimillion-dollar businesses—some with years of success—that have either shut down entirely or drastically downsized their workforce this year because they couldn’t navigate the current landscape.
Every day on this forum, I see sellers sharing stories of struggle and uncertainty. It makes me wonder: Is this just an isolated experience within our circle, or is it reflective of broader challenges across the platform?
We Want to Hear from You
How has your business been impacted by the changes in 2024? Are you finding ways to adapt, or are you also facing struggles with sustainability? Let’s share our experiences and see if we can create enough momentum to encourage Amazon to reconsider some of these policies.
Looking forward to hearing your stories. Let’s navigate this together.
Where do YOU think we are headed in 2025?
Dear Fellow Amazon Sellers,
2024 has been an incredibly challenging year for many of us in the Amazon seller community. I wanted to reach out to gauge how everyone is doing and see if we can collectively bring attention to some of the hurdles we’re all facing.
Our Story:
We’ve been selling on Amazon for four years, and while we’ve grown significantly—selling over 250,000 units this year through a mix of manufacturing, reselling, and exclusive brand representation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to sustain this growth. 2024 has been the toughest year yet.
This year alone, Amazon introduced several new fees and policies that have drastically impacted our business:
- Low inventory fees
- Inbound shipping fees
- Increased fees for low-priced items
- Removal of the under-$9.99 fee discount
The financial impact has been substantial. Despite doubling our sales compared to 2023, our profits have remained stagnant due to these higher costs.
Additionally, policies around bundling and AI-monitored health violations have caused several of our best-selling items to be removed from the platform, leaving us with limited ways to address these issues.
We personally know of multiple multimillion-dollar businesses—some with years of success—that have either shut down entirely or drastically downsized their workforce this year because they couldn’t navigate the current landscape.
Every day on this forum, I see sellers sharing stories of struggle and uncertainty. It makes me wonder: Is this just an isolated experience within our circle, or is it reflective of broader challenges across the platform?
We Want to Hear from You
How has your business been impacted by the changes in 2024? Are you finding ways to adapt, or are you also facing struggles with sustainability? Let’s share our experiences and see if we can create enough momentum to encourage Amazon to reconsider some of these policies.
Looking forward to hearing your stories. Let’s navigate this together.
4 replies
4 replies
Seller_lefJ7Z1JhNXcz
Interesting post. Here's what I'm currently dealing with:
Amazon implemented a fee category change on all of my items on November 1st, 2024. I sell bumper stickers and decals. The fee category for my items changed from Automotive and Powersports to Home and Kitchen, costing me over $1,000 a month in additional fees. I've opened support cases and tried reaching out to several community managers on the forums and it has gotten me nowhere. Its robbery and nobody at Amazon cares to do anything about it.
Seller_9z7K85RzAOGC9
I've only been selling on the platform for a year now and things were going great until around August/September. Sales have been steadily declining and now am doing about 1/3 of the sales I was doing to begin with once all of my items were finally listed on Amazon. I find Amazon's system to be a bit backwards. We pay a monthly subscription fee to be on the marketplace to list our items. I have well over 1,000 items, but no matter what Amazon only shows 320 max when you click on my "see sellers other items" never more than that, so all the rest of my items are basically hidden from buyers to see. if they want to see my full product line. On top of that, this is the only platform that tries to force sellers to make as little as possible in profits, break even or lose money by forcing us to list products cheaper than the next guy to "EARN" the buy box. When Amazon increases their fees or postage rates go up we as sellers can't seem to raise our prices in lock step to keep up or we end up losing the buy box because now our prices seem to be higher than the other guys, once again forcing less or little to no profits on us. I don't get why Amazon doesn't just let the free market play out? If they did and let all sellers items have buy boxes Amazon would make much more on their end because buyers prefer quality items over cheaper junk items and will pay the extra to get the better items. Suppressing the buy box on many sellers because Amazon automatically bunches similar items into one category and only sees low price when their AI bots can't see quality makes it hard to sell ojn this platform and make a decent profit. All other platforms I am on I am able to sell everything with none of my items hidden and make good profits, but not on here so much. It seems Amazon prefers China sellers that sell inferior products and receive shipping subsidies we don't get here in the U.S. They can ship an item all the way from china for a small fraction of what it costs us to ship to our neighbor next door with tracking. I think Amazon is on the way to pushing out sellers of quality items in preference to super low cost Chinese junk items going forward as the marketplace is filled with cheap knock offs and junk from overseas now and only seems to be growing more in that direction. As far as everyone selling FBA I don't see the advantage in doing that for anyone any longer. All the fees associated with that eat up profits even more.
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
Most have already been heading out the door or at least offering same items across all platforms and stepping away form a platform that manipulates sales dat customers feed and price fixies items along with suppression of items this platform can not compete with so they send listing to the dogs and don't forget there is ZERO seller support of any kind!
Seller_lefJ7Z1JhNXcz
Interesting post. Here's what I'm currently dealing with:
Amazon implemented a fee category change on all of my items on November 1st, 2024. I sell bumper stickers and decals. The fee category for my items changed from Automotive and Powersports to Home and Kitchen, costing me over $1,000 a month in additional fees. I've opened support cases and tried reaching out to several community managers on the forums and it has gotten me nowhere. Its robbery and nobody at Amazon cares to do anything about it.
Seller_lefJ7Z1JhNXcz
Interesting post. Here's what I'm currently dealing with:
Amazon implemented a fee category change on all of my items on November 1st, 2024. I sell bumper stickers and decals. The fee category for my items changed from Automotive and Powersports to Home and Kitchen, costing me over $1,000 a month in additional fees. I've opened support cases and tried reaching out to several community managers on the forums and it has gotten me nowhere. Its robbery and nobody at Amazon cares to do anything about it.
Seller_9z7K85RzAOGC9
I've only been selling on the platform for a year now and things were going great until around August/September. Sales have been steadily declining and now am doing about 1/3 of the sales I was doing to begin with once all of my items were finally listed on Amazon. I find Amazon's system to be a bit backwards. We pay a monthly subscription fee to be on the marketplace to list our items. I have well over 1,000 items, but no matter what Amazon only shows 320 max when you click on my "see sellers other items" never more than that, so all the rest of my items are basically hidden from buyers to see. if they want to see my full product line. On top of that, this is the only platform that tries to force sellers to make as little as possible in profits, break even or lose money by forcing us to list products cheaper than the next guy to "EARN" the buy box. When Amazon increases their fees or postage rates go up we as sellers can't seem to raise our prices in lock step to keep up or we end up losing the buy box because now our prices seem to be higher than the other guys, once again forcing less or little to no profits on us. I don't get why Amazon doesn't just let the free market play out? If they did and let all sellers items have buy boxes Amazon would make much more on their end because buyers prefer quality items over cheaper junk items and will pay the extra to get the better items. Suppressing the buy box on many sellers because Amazon automatically bunches similar items into one category and only sees low price when their AI bots can't see quality makes it hard to sell ojn this platform and make a decent profit. All other platforms I am on I am able to sell everything with none of my items hidden and make good profits, but not on here so much. It seems Amazon prefers China sellers that sell inferior products and receive shipping subsidies we don't get here in the U.S. They can ship an item all the way from china for a small fraction of what it costs us to ship to our neighbor next door with tracking. I think Amazon is on the way to pushing out sellers of quality items in preference to super low cost Chinese junk items going forward as the marketplace is filled with cheap knock offs and junk from overseas now and only seems to be growing more in that direction. As far as everyone selling FBA I don't see the advantage in doing that for anyone any longer. All the fees associated with that eat up profits even more.
Seller_9z7K85RzAOGC9
I've only been selling on the platform for a year now and things were going great until around August/September. Sales have been steadily declining and now am doing about 1/3 of the sales I was doing to begin with once all of my items were finally listed on Amazon. I find Amazon's system to be a bit backwards. We pay a monthly subscription fee to be on the marketplace to list our items. I have well over 1,000 items, but no matter what Amazon only shows 320 max when you click on my "see sellers other items" never more than that, so all the rest of my items are basically hidden from buyers to see. if they want to see my full product line. On top of that, this is the only platform that tries to force sellers to make as little as possible in profits, break even or lose money by forcing us to list products cheaper than the next guy to "EARN" the buy box. When Amazon increases their fees or postage rates go up we as sellers can't seem to raise our prices in lock step to keep up or we end up losing the buy box because now our prices seem to be higher than the other guys, once again forcing less or little to no profits on us. I don't get why Amazon doesn't just let the free market play out? If they did and let all sellers items have buy boxes Amazon would make much more on their end because buyers prefer quality items over cheaper junk items and will pay the extra to get the better items. Suppressing the buy box on many sellers because Amazon automatically bunches similar items into one category and only sees low price when their AI bots can't see quality makes it hard to sell ojn this platform and make a decent profit. All other platforms I am on I am able to sell everything with none of my items hidden and make good profits, but not on here so much. It seems Amazon prefers China sellers that sell inferior products and receive shipping subsidies we don't get here in the U.S. They can ship an item all the way from china for a small fraction of what it costs us to ship to our neighbor next door with tracking. I think Amazon is on the way to pushing out sellers of quality items in preference to super low cost Chinese junk items going forward as the marketplace is filled with cheap knock offs and junk from overseas now and only seems to be growing more in that direction. As far as everyone selling FBA I don't see the advantage in doing that for anyone any longer. All the fees associated with that eat up profits even more.
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
Most have already been heading out the door or at least offering same items across all platforms and stepping away form a platform that manipulates sales dat customers feed and price fixies items along with suppression of items this platform can not compete with so they send listing to the dogs and don't forget there is ZERO seller support of any kind!
Seller_Ha6JyVvDK6Ybs
Most have already been heading out the door or at least offering same items across all platforms and stepping away form a platform that manipulates sales dat customers feed and price fixies items along with suppression of items this platform can not compete with so they send listing to the dogs and don't forget there is ZERO seller support of any kind!
