Hello,

I want to buy products from a Chinese supplier for a long time.

My question is, if my product starts selling very well on Amazon with my own brand and trademark, how can I stop the supplier from copying my product or selling it to other people?

How do you make an agreement with the supplier for this? What agreement do you use?

Thank you.

Well, it finally happened and I see that some ASINs of mine were flagged by Amazon. It says that I can choose to partner with a TIC provider to resolve these flags.

I see as available options: Certified Laboratories Cotecna Eurofins ITS - Intertek Mérieux NutriSciences NSF SGS UL - Underwriters Laboratories

Has anyone had experience choosing a TIC provider? Who do you recommend based on speed/responsiveness etc.?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new to selling on Amazon UK and could really use some guidance from more experienced sellers.

I recently sourced a generic (unbranded) universal travel adapter from a Chinese manufacturer. The listing went under review, and Amazon requested compliance documentation. I submitted the safety documents provided by my manufacturer, but Amazon continues to reject the listing.

A few details about the product:

• It is unbranded.
• It has all the standard physical safety markings printed on the product.
• I have submitted the manufacturer's test reports/certificates, but they keep getting knocked back.

I am currently waiting on a specific reply from Seller Support detailing exactly what is missing from my submission, but in the meantime:

1. Has anyone run into a similar issue with unbranded electronics/adapters on Amazon UK?
2. What are the common pitfalls or specific UK regulations (e.g., LVD, RoHS, BS 1363 plug standards) that Amazon is notoriously strict about rejecting documents for?
3. Are there specific templates or declarations of conformity that I should be requesting from my supplier instead?

Any advice, tips, or checklists would be incredibly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for the help.

I’m curious about the total sales of another seller. Not on a product level but for total seller. They have quite a few products.

Is there any tool that does that?

So far, my best approach is amazon.com/s?me=<sellerID> and then check H10’s xray chrome plugin (Was pretty accurate for my own store at least)

Interesting article about Amazon getting sued for creating fake bids in advertising auctions and other practices to increase advertising costs for sellers/brands.

I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to keep track of AWD inventory alongside my FBA inventory, especially when there are shipments in transit and inventory moving between warehouses.

For FBA, I feel like there are a lot of tools and reports available, but AWD feels a little less straightforward to monitor. I’m mainly interested in how other sellers keep track of what’s currently in AWD, what’s being received, what’s in transit, and how you factor that inventory into your replenishment planning.

Do you guys use Seller Central reports, spreadsheets, third-party software, or just manually keep an eye on it?

Would be interested to hear how other sellers are handling it in their day-to-day operations.

I've been growing my wholesale Amazon business and I'm starting to outgrow my current setup. Right now, I use Veeqo for FBM inventory management, Sellerboard for profit tracking, and Aura for repricing, though I'm considering switching to sellersnap. I also keep a spreadsheet with all my SKUs that I manually upload to my repricer and Sellerboard, which yeah, is getting time-consuming. I use Claude a lot to plan orders and organize PO's. I'm looking for wholesale friendly software that can handle forecasting, purchase orders, inbound tracking, maybe supplier management, and integrates cleanly with Amazon. Not looking for a full enterprise ERP, but something reliable that won't be outgrown in a few months. Also for those who have used both, would you stick with Aura or switch to Seller Snap? And what are you all using to manage inventory and purchasing as you scale? Any recommendations? Or software you'd avoid? Or general tips?

I built this for my Amazon fba journey. When starting this Amazon journey, i never found anyone to take me from zero to one.

Is it worth pursuing this?

https://fba2payday.lovable.app

Taking people from zero to $10k/month

Let me know your thoughts

Feels like everything on Amazon is built for one-off purchases and you have almost no way to talk to your customers again after the sale. Has anyone found an off-Amazon channel (email list, own site, something else) that actually turned Amazon buyers into repeat customers? What worked?

Hi, my new Amazon seller account has been approved. In your opinion, which method is the most profitable?

Anyone currently using Claude for PPC spend? Is there a way to connect MCP for free?

FBA rules change all the time and there are always small new requirements to catch up with. Don't get me wrong, having Amazon store and ship everything for me is great. But recently they stopped accepting manufacturer barcodes for my listings, so now I'm putting stickers on every single unit by hand before shipping them in.

What FBA task do you hate the most?

I live in a country where SellerAmp, Keepa, AMZ scount, etc. None of them have data for my marketplace (Amazon SA). My question is, what data do I run off for product research?

Seller Central invite this month: bid a per-unit price to get extra ASINs into Sub Same Day (2-5 hours, ~2,300 metros). You pay that bid only on units that actually ship SSD. Amazon still auto-places some products at no extra fee.

They say SSD ASINs sell 12% more than standard FBA in those areas.

The operator math is not "is 12% real." It's incrementality vs the bid, vs inbound splits, vs the fact the customer is already paying for fast.

Once a competitor in your Buy Box starts bidding, you are in a prisoner's dilemma. Refuse and you lose the speed badge. Bid and Amazon's take rate ticks up again.

Anyone actually bidding, or treating this like the first week of Sponsored Products when "optional" lasted about a quarter?

I launched my Amazon store in December 2025 and initially used a third-party company to set up my listings. I stopped working with them in March, and since then I’ve discovered several issues with how the catalog was originally structured.

One of my products should have four variations under a parent listing: two sizes and two quantity options. However, the previous company somehow created six variations. I only need the four active listings, but whenever I try to correct them, Amazon blocks the changes because the listings are considered too similar to the two inactive listings.

I’ve also been unable to permanently remove the incorrect/inactive listings due to Amazon’s catalog policies. It feels like I’m stuck with errors created during the original setup, while Amazon prevents me from correcting them.

Has anyone dealt with something similar? Is there a way to have the two incorrect listings removed from the Amazon catalog entirely?

Hi everyone,
I’m French and I’m about to start selling on Amazon France. I created a brand with my dad, who is a doctor in France, and our first product will be a type of cushion.
Our trademark application is currently being processed by the INPI, but I was already able to successfully register the brand with Amazon Brand Registry.
As we are getting close to finalizing our samples and placing the bulk order, I’m trying to make sure that everything is compliant before manufacturing and sending the products to Amazon FBA. However, I’m honestly feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the different regulations and information available online.
From what I understand, there are several things that may be required, such as:
The company name and possibly the EU Responsible Person’s information on the packaging
A barcode/GTIN (UPC or EAN) and potentially a separate Amazon FNSKU label
Having the brand name permanently displayed on the product rather than only on a woven label
A textile composition label
Possibly other mandatory information depending on the product category and how it is marketed
There seems to be a lot of important information to consider, and as someone completely new to Private Label, I’m finding it difficult to confidently gather all the requirements in one place. 😅
Could any experienced French or European Amazon sellers tell me exactly what information needs to be included on both the product and the packaging to be compliant in France/EU?
Alternatively, if you know reliable official resources where I can find all the applicable requirements, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for your help! Private Label definitely doesn’t feel like the easiest way to start on Amazon haha.

Exactly 7 months ago, I started a fashion jewelry brand on Amazon.
I went ALL IN. FBA, Brand Registry, premium packaging, professional photography, Premium A+ Content, everything I could afford to make it look like a real established brand.
The funny part is that behind this polished-looking brand is literally one exhausted and slightly terrified girl working as a caregiver in America, trying to build herself a way out. 😂🥹
I actually got lucky with my caregiver job. My patient isn’t difficult or demanding at all. She mostly just needs someone in the house so she feels safe and knows she isn’t alone. But because of that, I’m there from ridiculously early in the morning until almost midnight.
So in between, I’m running this entire business from my laptop and phone.
Factories, inventory, PPC, listings, photography, Photoshop, Canva, social media, customer reviews, packaging, product development… all of it.
I also built my own Shopify store, and just this past week I finally started working with influencers and creators because I’m trying to build the brand outside of Amazon too.
Before starting this, I saved basically everything I could for months. I genuinely love jewelry and building this brand, but the real reason I started was simple. I want financial independence. I want to eventually stop working from sunrise to midnight and build something of my own.
So here are the numbers.
In 7 months, with basically only 4 main listings, my store has generated $23,275 in revenue.
And out of that?
I’ve managed to actually take out maybe $2,000 total for myself. Literally $100 here, $100 there. 😂
Everything else disappears right back into the machine.
PPC alone eats around $500 every week. Then Amazon fees, inventory, shipping, returns, packaging, photography, Vine… and of course my personal favorite, deferred transactions, because apparently watching money you technically earned sit there where you can’t touch it is part of the Amazon experience. 😭
I’ve sold around 1,126 bracelets and my return rate is roughly 11%.
For the last two months, I’ve had a PPC team from Upwork managing my ads, and I’ve finally started seeing some improvement.
But I’ve also made SO many expensive mistakes.
Honestly, I think your first year in business is basically tuition for the University of Making Expensive Mistakes.
Total invested so far?
About $26,000. 😄
Inventory, packaging, shipping, photography, PPC, Vine, samples, reorders, fixing manufacturing mistakes… you name it.
My biggest mistake was launching a bracelet that actually became one of my best sellers, only for Amazon to later flag the listing for suspected trademark/IP issues.
Listing gone.
Now I have around 450 units sitting in my house staring at me like tiny expensive reminders of my bad decisions. 😂
I also spent almost six months with my account in At Risk status. I have no idea if that affected my organic visibility or ranking, but seeing that giant red warning every time I opened Seller Central definitely took a few years off my life.
And somehow… I’m still here.
If you’ve ever built a physical product brand alone, you probably understand.
Factories making mistakes. Defective products. Bad reviews because of manufacturing issues you specifically told them to avoid. Inventory. Shipping. Photos. Content. PPC. Returns. Social media. Negotiations. Running out of stock. Ordering too much stock.
One good sales day and suddenly you think you’re Jeff Bezos.
Two terrible days later and you’re questioning every decision you’ve made since birth. 😂
There have genuinely been days when I cried and then opened Seller Central five minutes later and kept working.
But I’m still hopeful.
And one of the biggest reasons I’m still hopeful is that everything I’ve done so far has basically been with only 4 listings.
I know four listings can only do so much. So part of my thinking is that if I can eventually build this catalog to 20, 25, 30 solid listings, the store has a much better chance of generating enough daily sales to become a real, sustainable business.
I’m not expecting all 30 products to become best sellers. I know some will flop, some might sell one or two units a day, some might do okay, and hopefully a few will become strong sellers.
But right now I feel like I’m asking four little products to carry an entire company on their backs. 😂
That’s why I keep adding and adding.
I currently have 15 new listings/products in development, and I plan to keep going until I’m somewhere around 30.
My hope is that instead of desperately needing each listing to sell 10 units every day, maybe one sells 2, another sells 5, another sells 1, a strong one sells 10… and across 30 listings, those sales finally start adding up to something meaningful.
Maybe I’m wrong about that, and honestly, I’d love for experienced sellers to tell me if I am.
But this time I’m also approaching product selection very differently.
No more “I personally love this design, so maybe everyone else will too.”
I’m being much more intentional about what customers actually want, the competition, quality, pricing and positioning.
The quality is being upgraded too.
And when this new inventory arrives, I’m literally planning to inspect every single piece myself at home, package it myself, check it again, and then send it to Amazon.
Because if a defective bracelet reaches another customer, it’s going to have to fight me first. 😂
I’m putting a lot of hope into Q4 and these new designs.
Maybe I’m stubborn. Maybe slightly delusional. But I genuinely still believe this can work.
And that’s really why I’m posting this.
I want to hear from someone who was once where I am right now.
Someone who spent way more than expected. Who watched revenue come in without seeing actual profit. Who burned money learning PPC. Who fought with suppliers. Who made stupid mistakes. Who almost quit 50 times.
And then eventually… made it work.
Were any of you like this 6 to 12 months in?
Was there ever a point where PPC, inventory, rankings and cash flow finally started working together and you could actually breathe and actually pay yourself?
And for those of you who started with only a handful of products, did growing your catalog to 20 to 30+ solid listings actually change the business? Did your overall daily sales finally start adding up once you had more products working for you?
Because right now I keep telling myself, sometimes literally while crying:
I’m going to figure this out.
The crazy thing is, if you saw my storefront, packaging, photography and branding, I genuinely don’t think you’d ever guess there’s just one scared girl behind all of it trying to figure everything out as she goes.
Please share your stories, good or bad. I genuinely want to hear them.
And please don’t roast me too hard. 😂
Trust me, I’ve already roasted myself plenty for the mistakes I’ve made.
Still building. Still scared. And somehow, still ridiculously hopeful.

First brand, and I'm a bit anxious about this, so any advice would help.

Before landing on the name I checked for similar names in my category, filed the trademark, no conflicts came up so far, likely will be approved and registered soon. Then while its pending I went to set up on Amazon and brand approval got rejected because there's already a brand with almost the same name. Mine is in beauty category, theirs is in mobile devices/tech. I honestly thought trademark would be more important then Amazon brand list.

I already have all my inventory made with the name on it.

Does reapplying once the trademark actually registers help? Or does Amazon not care?

I could add something like "Mr." in front of the name, but then I'm either eating the inventory (which is a lot) or putting stickers over the labels, which is going to look bad.

Has anyone dealt with this?

so i’ve been in this run around loop with support trying to verify my address for 2 month and 600 stranded inventory units at FBA. i’m not able to verify my address anywhere no matter how many time i re-submit verifications and not getting anything from any of the support cases i open. anyone experience this?

I have two listings that are of the same exact product. They were created with different UPCs. Only one UPC is valid. I want to merge them so that there's only one listing and the reviews are shared. Suggestions?

I was offered a line of credit through Amazon for $110k from Slope Pay. I've had the line of credit since March (5 months), never actually made a draw on it, then in August I'm randomly told "you are no longer eligible for financing at this time"

Your application was not approved because your credit profile did not meet our current requirements. Specifically, the credit scores on file did not reach the threshold we need to extend financing.

You can reapply starting November 8, 2026 (90 days from today's decision).

In the meantime, if you believe there is an error in your credit information or if your financial situation has changed significantly, feel free to reply here and we can take a closer look.

We look at both personal and business credit as part of the underwriting process. Both were factors in this decision.

We're not able to share specific score thresholds, as the decision involves multiple data points beyond just credit scores (cash flow, business history, etc.).

The best path forward is to work on strengthening both your personal and business credit profiles and reapply starting November 8, 2026. If you believe any of the credit information on file is inaccurate, you can dispute it directly with the credit bureaus in the meantime.

My Experian Business Credit Score is 55 out of 100 (low to medium risk)

My personal credit score is 750+.

Just my opinion, but this is shady as fuck. I'm obviously not going to draw on a high interest (~15%+) line of credit when my credit is perfect, I'm going to wait until I need that cash and my credit is a little worse, and that's the whole idea of a line of credit. You can't extend me credit, recheck my credit score every day, then suddenly decide that you don't like my credit score. My credit score isn't even bad. No other lenders do this shit. They pull your credit score once and the deal is done. Anyone else have this experience?

When an ASIN slows down, price is usually one of the first things people touch. Maybe a competitor improved their listing, your recent reviews got worse, your main image stopped standing out, or your traffic just isn't converting anymore.

Now you have the same problem, just with less margin on every sale. I think discounts have become an easy way to avoid figuring out why an ASIN actually slowed down.

Before cutting price, what’s the first thing you check?

Related account deactivation for an account I've never heard of - Amazon

says I can only be reinstated after THAT account is reinstated. Is this

the end?

Throwaway for obvious reasons. Posting because I've run out of ideas and

I'm hoping someone here has seen this pattern before.

Background:

- Single-member US LLC, registered in my own name

- Solo operator. No VA, no agency, no partner, no employees

- Nobody has ever had my login credentials. No user permissions ever granted

- First and only Amazon account, opened this year

- First product, first shipment, still sitting in FBA

- Zero policy violations, zero complaints, clean account health right up

until the deactivation

Three weeks ago the account was deactivated for a Related Accounts

violation. Amazon named a specific seller account and said it's prohibited

from selling. I have never owned it, operated it, accessed it, funded it,

or communicated with anyone connected to it. I had never seen the name

before that email.

What I did:

Submitted three appeals with everything I have - passport, certificate of

organization, IRS EIN letter naming me sole member, bank verification

letter naming me sole signatory, government-registered tenancy contract,

utility bill in my name, and documentation of the one overlap I could

find (more below). All three rejected with the same automated text.

Called Account Health twice. Posted in the seller forums, where a mod is

currently reviewing my case.

The one thing I could identify as a possible cause: I occasionally logged

into my seller account from a work laptop on my employer's office network.

It's a company-managed device, IT holds admin rights, and the office runs

on a single shared public IP used by over a thousand employees. I

volunteered this without being asked, documented it, and stopped

completely.

Where it stands now:

1. One rejection stated I had "previously acknowledged being associated

with the related account." I never did. Account Health had told me on a

recorded call to select a specific option on the appeal form because it

was the only way to open the document upload field - the form gives you no

other way to attach anything. I stated in writing that I was selecting it

only for that purpose. The system logged it as an admission, and every

rejection since has asked me for a sales deed or business transfer

agreement for an account I have never owned.

1. On the second call, Account Health told me plainly that my account can

only be reactivated after the other account is reactivated and brought

into good standing.

So my reinstatement now depends on the actions of a stranger I can't

identify or contact.

What I'm asking:

- Has anyone actually gotten a related-account link reversed when the only

overlap was a shared corporate IP or a company-owned device? Did anything

specific work?

- Has anyone had a false admission corrected on their file, and how?

- Is the "primary account must be reinstated first" line an absolute wall,

or have people gotten past it?

- I've sent one email to executive relations. Anything else that actually

reaches a human with authority?

- For anyone who's used a reinstatement consultant for a related-accounts

case - did it help, and what should I watch out for?

Not looking for sympathy, just want to know whether there's a path I

haven't tried or whether this is genuinely over.