““For sellers who list a large number of novelty SKUs or SKUs that are similar to each other and which have not received customer interest, Amazon has instituted SKU limits.”
I know people close to me who sell on Amazon. If this is the case, you could compare this to Ebay. People don;t realize that Ebay places a cap on sellers (especially new ones) under a certain amount which is ridiculous. Then every month, you have to “interview” with these clowns and make your case to raise the limits. Back to Amazon, then the solution is to buy more barcodes for the SKU’s (ironically cheaper when buying bulk on Ebay)
Well then, looks like they (Amazon) are seeking their own demise.
I don’t understand limiting SKUs unless there is some sort of extra bandwidth capacity associated. Is Amazon trying to limit the number of offers a seller can make? Maximizing thus band-width?
eBay and Amazon have been on the warpath for a while now. Siding out small timers and such. The people who built them are now anathema to them.
They may go to Hell.
I recently read about a new company called Yagoozon, Inc. It was recently named the #11 fastest growing company in the world and the #1 fastest growing company in the Retailing space. The kid started it with $40, selling toys, novelties, costumes etc on Amazon and did $20M in sales last year. I’d think there would be enough in there for Amazon to get their share and be happy, and to encourage more like him.
WTF is a SKU?
I stopped going to Amazon when it started to look like a Five-and-Dime store on the internet.
My business is conducted on Ebay and Craigslist. Right now there isn’t any because people do not seem to be buying.
>>Will Decimate Their Bottom Lines<<
If the headline is to be believed, it’s only a reduction of 10%.
Words mean things.
Amazon is attempting to deal with a real problem. Their search system is essentially useless. Search on most anything, and you get hundreds of non matching items. Even a specific brand and model number can return hundreds of irrelevant items, and the one you want is usually not first. Most of the time I need a specific item, I have to find the correct brand and model on some other site, and then enter it in Amazon. It’s also very aggravating that the “search by price” feature doesn’t sort by price. I assume its because Amazon has some vendors that are more equal than others.