We will review your application and if approved, pay 1000 if you are approved

glacier922 · #1 11-20-2016

For Amazon,

anyone see this message when you're submitting your invoices:

We will review your application and if approved, you will be asked to pay a non-refundable fee of $ 1000 USD via wire transfer prior to listing. The fee is not required if your application is declined.

I'm like whoa, when did this thing start? Is this temporary or what? Has anyone actually took the risk of doing this?

Gamefreak · #2 11-21-2016

been going on for a little bit now. wire transfer though tf is that a typo or has it been like that?

glacier922 · #3 11-21-2016

Yup it says wire transfers alright. Did u actually fork over the 1000 dollars?

elmo · #4 11-21-2016

For what category is this?

It was always on fine jewelry, but I have seen them starting to expand it

glacier922 · #5 11-21-2016

Let's say you want to sell certain brands, when you apply, you have to send 3 invoices. At the bottom, it says what I quoted above.

glacier922 · #6 11-21-2016

In short, let's say you got some Nintendo systems at a liquidation, you try to sell it and Amazon asks for three invoices plus 1000 dollars to sell your Nintendo, ridiculous right?

elmo · #7 11-21-2016

Oh yes for specific brand approval I've seen it.

Some will allow 3 invoices instead of paying the $1000 fee. Make sure you're reading it right. Some products do require both which seems pricey

GreenBean · #8 11-21-2016

amazon looking to have pro sellers only.

glacier922 · #9 11-21-2016

Elmo, gb, this is a pro account I have. Even if it's pro, they still asking sellers to fork over 1000 dollars.

GreenBean · #10 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by glacier922

Elmo, gb, this is a pro account I have. Even if it's pro, they still asking sellers to fork over 1000 dollars.

Bluidy cheek.

Of course if your sales cover the amount, might work. Some are just juggling and on a tight budget.

phaz0rz · #11 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by glacier922

Elmo, gb, this is a pro account I have. Even if it's pro, they still asking sellers to fork over 1000 dollars.

It's just their way of weeding out the riff-raff. I've seen this type of fee mentioned in several AK threads now. Frankly I don't blame Amazon. They are probably putting all those extra fees in a lawsuit fund.

GreenBean · #12 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by phaz0rz

They are probably putting all those extra fees in a lawsuit fund.

Love it.

Made me giggle.

glacier922 · #13 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by phaz0rz

It's just their way of weeding out the riff-raff. I've seen this type of fee mentioned in several AK threads now. Frankly I don't blame Amazon. They are probably putting all those extra fees in a lawsuit fund.

But even the non riff raffs who buy items legitimately in liquidations, closeourts, etc have to fork over the 1000 dollars. So my Sony PlayStation, say for example, I got at liquidation 8 of them, got to pay 1000 dollars to sell my 8 PlayStation? Complete bull right? Oh, got 8 nintendo from the same liquidation? Another 1000 for that.

Not sure if Amazon sellers too happy now.

GreenBean · #14 11-21-2016

Bottom line is amazon do not need to care.

They are controlling the quality of who they want to sell.

It is all money for them.

ShowMeDude · #15 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by glacier922

But even the non riff raffs who buy items legitimately in liquidations, closeourts, etc have to fork over the 1000 dollars. So my Sony PlayStation, say for example, I got at liquidation 8 of them, got to pay 1000 dollars to sell my 8 PlayStation? Complete bull right? Oh, got 8 nintendo from the same liquidation? Another 1000 for that.

Not sure if Amazon sellers too happy now.

If you dont like the rules dont play the game. They dont need your business so if you dont like it go elsewhere. I just dont get people sometimes.

By the way you selling outdated game consoles is rift raft to them.

yankee · #16 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

Bottom line is amazon do not need to care.

They are controlling the quality of who they want to sell.

It is all money for them.

Exactly. Amazon DOES NOT WANT your sales if you cant handle a little negative cash-flow.

glacier922 · #17 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

Bottom line is amazon do not need to care.

They are controlling the quality of who they want to sell.

It is all money for them.

Hopefully this Amazon decision would be like microsoft's windows 8, or their Xbox Kinect disaster.

user3657 · #18 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by glacier922

But even the non riff raffs who buy items legitimately in liquidations, closeourts, etc have to fork over the 1000 dollars. So my Sony PlayStation, say for example, I got at liquidation 8 of them, got to pay 1000 dollars to sell my 8 PlayStation? Complete bull right? Oh, got 8 nintendo from the same liquidation? Another 1000 for that.

Not sure if Amazon sellers too happy now.

Im sure im going to get alot of heat for this, but its not legitimate.

If poor suzy works 2 jobs to buy her son PS3 for christmas from you, a year later it no longer works and she goes to get warranty service and is denied, will you take back her return after a year?

Legitimate sellers should beable to afford $1000.

glacier922 · #19 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by user3657

Im sure im going to get alot of heat for this, but its not legitimate.

If poor suzy works 2 jobs to buy her son PS3 for christmas from you, a year later it no longer works and she goes to get warranty service and is denied, will you take back her return after a year?

Legitimate sellers should beable to afford $1000.

You are not doing the math correctly. It's much more than 1000 dollars. So, 8 playstation, just playstation, that's 1000 dollars. 5 Nintendo, just nintendo, that's 1000 dollars. 7 Xbox, just Xbox, that's another 1000 dollars. That's 3000 dollars to sell 20 items. You need to make over 3000 dollars selling 20 items, and those are realistic conditions. Pretty soon, you sell 100 different items, you're at 100,000 dollars, and you are a legitimate seller.

Not trying to harp, just explaining the situation as accurate as possible. You can't do calculus because you don't understand one part of the equation, so you make your own equation.

yankee · #20 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by glacier922

You are not doing the math correctly. It's much more than 1000 dollars. So, 8 playstation, just playstation, that's 1000 dollars. 5 Nintendo, just nintendo, that's 1000 dollars. 7 Xbox, just Xbox, that's another 1000 dollars. That's 3000 dollars to sell 20 items. You need to make over 3000 dollars selling 20 items, and those are realistic conditions. Pretty soon, you sell 100 different items, you're at 100,000 dollars, and you are a legitimate seller.

Not trying to harp, just explaining the situation as accurate as possible. You can't do calculus because you don't understand one part of the equation, so you make your own equation.

So dont sell them on amazon. Easy fix.

phaz0rz · #21 11-21-2016

You sure that applies for every product you want to sell?

I'm no expert on AZ by any means, but from the Elmo posts I've read I always thought you were paying a non-refundable fee to sell in a category.

I could be wrong though..

phaz0rz · #22 11-21-2016

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Originally Posted by yankee

So dont sell them on amazon. Easy fix.

That's what I was thinking honestly. Amazon isn't geared towards the yard/estate sale, liquidation, closeout crowd. I've always seen them as being more for those wanting to sell thousands of the same new item.

Ebay is an excellent place to sell used PS4's though!