January 17, 2007

Amazon postpones changes to "Sold, ship now" e-mails

Amazon has indefinitely postponed the deletion of customer e-mail and shipping addresses from its "Sold, ship now" e-mails.

Amazon had planned on making the change February 1, but now says it will wait until it has released new order-notification software, which has also been delayed.

The announcement:
As a result of your feedback, we have postponed this change. We will announce a new date for the change in the near future.

We want to allow plenty of time for sellers to make the transition from relying solely on e-mail order notifications. To help you make this transition, we will be providing two new notification options: an Event Notification Web Service API (Application Programming Interface) and the Amazon Services Order Notifier (ASON).

The Event Notification Web Service API documentation, including SDKs (Software Development Kits), and a beta preview of ASON will be released together soon.

We welcome your feedback on both the Event Notification Web Service and ASON. We will consider your suggestions and comments when making future improvements.

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

An "event notification API"? So now I have to be a programmer to sell on Amazon? Have any of them at Amazon come down out of their ivory tower recently?

1/19/2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It does seem that you have to hace a college degree in computers these days to sell anymore. It all started so easy, Find a book sell a book. Now I have to write script, and understand it all. I guess the harder it gets, The less competiotion there will be.

1/19/2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm thinking that they may already be doing away with the email notification. Since 29 November I have had at least 10 orders that did not get to me by the Sold Now notification. I have to check both email listings and Transaction History to make sure I don't miss a sale. I've had to do damage control with some Xmas shoppers but they all were very understanding. Amazon was of no help.

1/22/2007  

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