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.
0 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_awYU0oH8skccg
My Sprinkler Always Comes on at Xmas...Then it Goes Off for Rest of the Year... Retail is a hard way to make money because of things you mentioned...If you're selling books for fun as a hobby Great.
Its just an excuse to look for more books....
Seller_CDrmo11gdIK3b
It’s both funny and ironic that I was listening to Jeff Bezos at the DealBook Summit, and what stood out to me was his emphasis on the importance of not being cynical—a mindset he credits as a key to his success. He’s undeniably one of the most inspirational and successful figures of our time, so I’m obviously influenced by his perspective.
However, when it comes to Amazon, I find it incredibly difficult not to feel cynical about our personal growth on the platform. As OP mentioned, while our top-line revenue has grown over the years, the bottom line continues to shrink every day.
It’s hard not to question Amazon’s trajectory and wonder if it’s heading towards becoming another Temu or similar marketplace, dominated by Chinese sellers and increasingly challenging for others to compete. It’s a tough reality to navigate, and the contrast between Bezos’ ideals and the platform’s current landscape makes it all the more frustrating.
I will go into 2025 part hopeful and part cynical and see which one Trumps!
Seller_lkJ1vcbTaK7BK
Business growth was already suffocated the last couple years with incorrect restricted policy violations that are impossible to appeal successfully.
The additional fees are definitely accelerating my business' decline and I had started out very successfully solely selling on Amazon. Business outlook for 2025 is to be as barebone as possible to make sure I am at least making a profit and simply to survive as long as I can. No prospect of growth with PPC as the cost reward benefit just isn't there for my business.
Seller_DnVcdNkwor08g
Here is an interesting read: Open Letter to @JeffBezos & Amazon on X from @Molson_Hart
Seller_Ys8Kz8TPanVFB
@Seller_BwhuAKHyZROZM
REALLY, REALLY GREAT POST!!!!!!!
Excellent topic and well written!
In answer to your general question. This is our tenth year on Amazon. Our story is similar to yours. Every year we have grown by 30% on Amazon like clockwork. THIS YEAR HOWEVER, for the first time ever, we may not grow 1 dollar on Amazon. While over this time we have grown on other platforms. Now to be fair, the economy in 2024 is in shambles regardless of who lies about that topic.
However, to be fair in the other direction, it is obvious that Amazon has chosen a side on the war against small business. The Gavi Team is correct, the fees are crippling. It seems that Amazon themselves knows this. The evidence to this is how at the very beginning of December Amazon announced that there will be no fee increases in 2025. That announcement was more than suspicious, that was damage control.
One additional point we'd like to add is how Amazon padded the FBM shipping estimates by up to a week in December. This may have been Amazon's cruelest move in all of 2024. Our last hope for growth was December and Amazon deliberately tanked it in an effort to punish those that won't pay the ridiculous FBA fees.
I'm not hopeful for Amazon deciding to be decent to small business. I would love to see it though. We have built a good business here and we hate to see it destroyed by greed. Amazon, maybe you could just think about it for a minute???? You can't take all that money with you when you go. All us small businesses, we're people too. Think about, please?
On the bright side, there seems to be room to grow on other platforms and the new tariffs coming might be helpful to us. We will all have to see. This is a good forum topic. Everyone that can should reply and keep this one going!
Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRt
We are a manufacturer in the US and may not be on Amazon in 2025. We already stopped all advertising and removed all FBA items.
The fraud, fees advertising costs are a problem. Being closed down by Amazon's mistake was the last straw.
Seller_aUbEyzlSSnsDJ
Amazon would not accept our post. Must have hit a nerve.
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.
0 replies
0 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_awYU0oH8skccg
My Sprinkler Always Comes on at Xmas...Then it Goes Off for Rest of the Year... Retail is a hard way to make money because of things you mentioned...If you're selling books for fun as a hobby Great.
Its just an excuse to look for more books....
Seller_CDrmo11gdIK3b
It’s both funny and ironic that I was listening to Jeff Bezos at the DealBook Summit, and what stood out to me was his emphasis on the importance of not being cynical—a mindset he credits as a key to his success. He’s undeniably one of the most inspirational and successful figures of our time, so I’m obviously influenced by his perspective.
However, when it comes to Amazon, I find it incredibly difficult not to feel cynical about our personal growth on the platform. As OP mentioned, while our top-line revenue has grown over the years, the bottom line continues to shrink every day.
It’s hard not to question Amazon’s trajectory and wonder if it’s heading towards becoming another Temu or similar marketplace, dominated by Chinese sellers and increasingly challenging for others to compete. It’s a tough reality to navigate, and the contrast between Bezos’ ideals and the platform’s current landscape makes it all the more frustrating.
I will go into 2025 part hopeful and part cynical and see which one Trumps!
Seller_lkJ1vcbTaK7BK
Business growth was already suffocated the last couple years with incorrect restricted policy violations that are impossible to appeal successfully.
The additional fees are definitely accelerating my business' decline and I had started out very successfully solely selling on Amazon. Business outlook for 2025 is to be as barebone as possible to make sure I am at least making a profit and simply to survive as long as I can. No prospect of growth with PPC as the cost reward benefit just isn't there for my business.
Seller_DnVcdNkwor08g
Here is an interesting read: Open Letter to @JeffBezos & Amazon on X from @Molson_Hart
Seller_Ys8Kz8TPanVFB
@Seller_BwhuAKHyZROZM
REALLY, REALLY GREAT POST!!!!!!!
Excellent topic and well written!
In answer to your general question. This is our tenth year on Amazon. Our story is similar to yours. Every year we have grown by 30% on Amazon like clockwork. THIS YEAR HOWEVER, for the first time ever, we may not grow 1 dollar on Amazon. While over this time we have grown on other platforms. Now to be fair, the economy in 2024 is in shambles regardless of who lies about that topic.
However, to be fair in the other direction, it is obvious that Amazon has chosen a side on the war against small business. The Gavi Team is correct, the fees are crippling. It seems that Amazon themselves knows this. The evidence to this is how at the very beginning of December Amazon announced that there will be no fee increases in 2025. That announcement was more than suspicious, that was damage control.
One additional point we'd like to add is how Amazon padded the FBM shipping estimates by up to a week in December. This may have been Amazon's cruelest move in all of 2024. Our last hope for growth was December and Amazon deliberately tanked it in an effort to punish those that won't pay the ridiculous FBA fees.
I'm not hopeful for Amazon deciding to be decent to small business. I would love to see it though. We have built a good business here and we hate to see it destroyed by greed. Amazon, maybe you could just think about it for a minute???? You can't take all that money with you when you go. All us small businesses, we're people too. Think about, please?
On the bright side, there seems to be room to grow on other platforms and the new tariffs coming might be helpful to us. We will all have to see. This is a good forum topic. Everyone that can should reply and keep this one going!
Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRt
We are a manufacturer in the US and may not be on Amazon in 2025. We already stopped all advertising and removed all FBA items.
The fraud, fees advertising costs are a problem. Being closed down by Amazon's mistake was the last straw.
Seller_aUbEyzlSSnsDJ
Amazon would not accept our post. Must have hit a nerve.
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!
Seller_awYU0oH8skccg
My Sprinkler Always Comes on at Xmas...Then it Goes Off for Rest of the Year... Retail is a hard way to make money because of things you mentioned...If you're selling books for fun as a hobby Great.
Its just an excuse to look for more books....
Seller_awYU0oH8skccg
My Sprinkler Always Comes on at Xmas...Then it Goes Off for Rest of the Year... Retail is a hard way to make money because of things you mentioned...If you're selling books for fun as a hobby Great.
Its just an excuse to look for more books....
Seller_CDrmo11gdIK3b
It’s both funny and ironic that I was listening to Jeff Bezos at the DealBook Summit, and what stood out to me was his emphasis on the importance of not being cynical—a mindset he credits as a key to his success. He’s undeniably one of the most inspirational and successful figures of our time, so I’m obviously influenced by his perspective.
However, when it comes to Amazon, I find it incredibly difficult not to feel cynical about our personal growth on the platform. As OP mentioned, while our top-line revenue has grown over the years, the bottom line continues to shrink every day.
It’s hard not to question Amazon’s trajectory and wonder if it’s heading towards becoming another Temu or similar marketplace, dominated by Chinese sellers and increasingly challenging for others to compete. It’s a tough reality to navigate, and the contrast between Bezos’ ideals and the platform’s current landscape makes it all the more frustrating.
I will go into 2025 part hopeful and part cynical and see which one Trumps!
Seller_CDrmo11gdIK3b
It’s both funny and ironic that I was listening to Jeff Bezos at the DealBook Summit, and what stood out to me was his emphasis on the importance of not being cynical—a mindset he credits as a key to his success. He’s undeniably one of the most inspirational and successful figures of our time, so I’m obviously influenced by his perspective.
However, when it comes to Amazon, I find it incredibly difficult not to feel cynical about our personal growth on the platform. As OP mentioned, while our top-line revenue has grown over the years, the bottom line continues to shrink every day.
It’s hard not to question Amazon’s trajectory and wonder if it’s heading towards becoming another Temu or similar marketplace, dominated by Chinese sellers and increasingly challenging for others to compete. It’s a tough reality to navigate, and the contrast between Bezos’ ideals and the platform’s current landscape makes it all the more frustrating.
I will go into 2025 part hopeful and part cynical and see which one Trumps!
Seller_lkJ1vcbTaK7BK
Business growth was already suffocated the last couple years with incorrect restricted policy violations that are impossible to appeal successfully.
The additional fees are definitely accelerating my business' decline and I had started out very successfully solely selling on Amazon. Business outlook for 2025 is to be as barebone as possible to make sure I am at least making a profit and simply to survive as long as I can. No prospect of growth with PPC as the cost reward benefit just isn't there for my business.
Seller_lkJ1vcbTaK7BK
Business growth was already suffocated the last couple years with incorrect restricted policy violations that are impossible to appeal successfully.
The additional fees are definitely accelerating my business' decline and I had started out very successfully solely selling on Amazon. Business outlook for 2025 is to be as barebone as possible to make sure I am at least making a profit and simply to survive as long as I can. No prospect of growth with PPC as the cost reward benefit just isn't there for my business.
Seller_DnVcdNkwor08g
Here is an interesting read: Open Letter to @JeffBezos & Amazon on X from @Molson_Hart
Seller_DnVcdNkwor08g
Here is an interesting read: Open Letter to @JeffBezos & Amazon on X from @Molson_Hart
Seller_Ys8Kz8TPanVFB
@Seller_BwhuAKHyZROZM
REALLY, REALLY GREAT POST!!!!!!!
Excellent topic and well written!
In answer to your general question. This is our tenth year on Amazon. Our story is similar to yours. Every year we have grown by 30% on Amazon like clockwork. THIS YEAR HOWEVER, for the first time ever, we may not grow 1 dollar on Amazon. While over this time we have grown on other platforms. Now to be fair, the economy in 2024 is in shambles regardless of who lies about that topic.
However, to be fair in the other direction, it is obvious that Amazon has chosen a side on the war against small business. The Gavi Team is correct, the fees are crippling. It seems that Amazon themselves knows this. The evidence to this is how at the very beginning of December Amazon announced that there will be no fee increases in 2025. That announcement was more than suspicious, that was damage control.
One additional point we'd like to add is how Amazon padded the FBM shipping estimates by up to a week in December. This may have been Amazon's cruelest move in all of 2024. Our last hope for growth was December and Amazon deliberately tanked it in an effort to punish those that won't pay the ridiculous FBA fees.
I'm not hopeful for Amazon deciding to be decent to small business. I would love to see it though. We have built a good business here and we hate to see it destroyed by greed. Amazon, maybe you could just think about it for a minute???? You can't take all that money with you when you go. All us small businesses, we're people too. Think about, please?
On the bright side, there seems to be room to grow on other platforms and the new tariffs coming might be helpful to us. We will all have to see. This is a good forum topic. Everyone that can should reply and keep this one going!
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@Seller_BwhuAKHyZROZM
REALLY, REALLY GREAT POST!!!!!!!
Excellent topic and well written!
In answer to your general question. This is our tenth year on Amazon. Our story is similar to yours. Every year we have grown by 30% on Amazon like clockwork. THIS YEAR HOWEVER, for the first time ever, we may not grow 1 dollar on Amazon. While over this time we have grown on other platforms. Now to be fair, the economy in 2024 is in shambles regardless of who lies about that topic.
However, to be fair in the other direction, it is obvious that Amazon has chosen a side on the war against small business. The Gavi Team is correct, the fees are crippling. It seems that Amazon themselves knows this. The evidence to this is how at the very beginning of December Amazon announced that there will be no fee increases in 2025. That announcement was more than suspicious, that was damage control.
One additional point we'd like to add is how Amazon padded the FBM shipping estimates by up to a week in December. This may have been Amazon's cruelest move in all of 2024. Our last hope for growth was December and Amazon deliberately tanked it in an effort to punish those that won't pay the ridiculous FBA fees.
I'm not hopeful for Amazon deciding to be decent to small business. I would love to see it though. We have built a good business here and we hate to see it destroyed by greed. Amazon, maybe you could just think about it for a minute???? You can't take all that money with you when you go. All us small businesses, we're people too. Think about, please?
On the bright side, there seems to be room to grow on other platforms and the new tariffs coming might be helpful to us. We will all have to see. This is a good forum topic. Everyone that can should reply and keep this one going!
Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRt
We are a manufacturer in the US and may not be on Amazon in 2025. We already stopped all advertising and removed all FBA items.
The fraud, fees advertising costs are a problem. Being closed down by Amazon's mistake was the last straw.
Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRt
We are a manufacturer in the US and may not be on Amazon in 2025. We already stopped all advertising and removed all FBA items.
The fraud, fees advertising costs are a problem. Being closed down by Amazon's mistake was the last straw.
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Amazon would not accept our post. Must have hit a nerve.
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Amazon would not accept our post. Must have hit a nerve.
