Amazon scrambles closing fees, shipping credits
Amazon announced new closing fees and shipping credits for books, music, video, DVD, software, and video game sales effective August 1.
The changes range from a few cents to about 75 cents. Generally, seller fees are increasing for expedited and international shipments.
If anyone has a clue about this, please let me know. This is the second nutty announcement out of Seattle within the past two business days.
posted by Steve Weber at 7/10/2006
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The bottom line for US sellers is a net increase for shipping of 3 cents for domestic surface, a decrease of 26 cents (from $5.05 to $4.79) for expedited, and a decrease of 36 cents for international orders.
Allowance for International shipping is now $8.59, 91 cents less than the Global Priority mail flat rate envelope.
It basically looks like another genius (in their own mind) executive figuring he could make it look like a good thing for Sellers and actually increase the greedy grab for Amazon. Amazon seems determined to abuse the Seller Marketplace.
For us, it means seriously considering reducing expidited and international sales (especially in VHS listings) as Amazon was being inadequate in these areas already! Maybe Amazon is trying to punish Sellers for wanting adjusts in response to recent increases in shipping costs?
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